[Part I]

[Refrain]
I saw you outside again
Just hangin' out with your friends

[Verse 1]
Hangin' with my cousin, readin' dirty magazines
We seen two niggas kissin', we ain't know what that shit mean
Then we start re-enactin' everything that we had seen
That's when I gave my cousin head, gave my cousin head
Gave my cousin head, I gave my cousin head
I gave my cousin head

[Refrain]
I saw you outside again
Just hangin' out with your friends

[Verse 2]
And I know these niggas 'bout to judge me now (And I know these niggas 'bout to judge me now)
Started off when we was hangin' out (Started off when we hangin')
Told my cousin not to tell nobody (Please, no, don't tell nobody)
People tell me take it to my grave ("Truth will set you free someday")
I don't think they understand, that I'm not attracted to a man (They thought I was gay)

[Part II]
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[Chorus]
Nitrous don't help me, it just put me in a trance
I'm talkin' about euphoria, I am not talkin' about a man
Told her, "Don't leave me, 'cause I need you by my side"
As long as you don't leave me, then I'll probably be alright
And that one time that you left me, I didn't get no sleep that night
And that one time that you left me, I took ten Percs to get high
Ten Percs to get high, pray that I don't die
But if I die, I'll see you in the sky
Two pints of the Qua'-Qua', don't leave, just stay, bae
Let's go on a vacay, leave the world behind

[Bridge]
Leave the world behind
Leave the world behind

[Chorus]
Nitrous don't help me, it just put me in a trance
I'm talkin' about euphoria, I am not talkin' about a man
Told her, "Don't leave me, 'cause I need you by my side"
As long as you don't leave me, then I'll probably be alright
Then I'll probably be alright
Then I'll probably be alright
Ten Percs to get high, pray that I don't die
But if I die, I'll see you in the sky
Two pints of the Qua'-Qua', don't leave, just stay, bae
Let's go on a vacay, leave the world behind
Ten Percs to get high, pray that I don't die
But if I die, I'll see you in the sky
Two pints of the Qua'-Qua', don't leave, just stay, bae
Let's go on a vacay, leave the world behind



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In “COUSINS”, Ye revisits his past, consisting of incest between him and a cousin of his, claims of his potential homosexuality and his drug addictions. The song was initially released as a music video on Ye’s 𝕏 (fka Twitter) on April 21, accompanying a confession where he writes:

This song is called COUSINS about my cousin that’s locked in jail for life for killing a pregnant lady a few years after I told him we wouldn’t “look at dirty magazines together” anymore

Perhaps in my self centered mess I felt it was my fault that I showed him those dirty magazines when he was 6 and then we acted out what we saw

My dad had playboy magazines but the magazines I found in the top of my moms closet were different

My name is Ye and I sucked my cousins dick till I was 14

Tweet sent [sic]

Ye later officially released the song on streaming services on April 24. The cover art is a painting titled Leda and the Swan, which depicts a swan penetrating a naked German maiden. The painting is said to be one of Adolf Hitler’s favorite paintings, which ties into Ye’s Nazi beliefs.