Only One Lyrics » Kanye West : The Only One Lyrics / Only One Song Lyrics by Kanye West is from The Album Empty. The Only One Song is Sung by Kanye West. The Only One Song Music is Produced by Noah Goldstein, Kanye West, MIKE DEAN & Paul McCartney. The Only One Song Lyrics is Written by Noah Goldstein, MIKE DEAN, KIRBY, Paul McCartney & Kanye West. The Only One Song is Released on Dec. 31, 2014. The Only One Song is Presented by Concord Music Group, Rock The World, Universal Music Group, G.O.O.D. Music & Def Jam Recordings.
Only One Song Details :
| Song | Only One |
| Singer | Kanye West |
| Music | Noah Goldstein, Kanye West, MIKE DEAN & Paul McCartney |
| Lyrics | Noah Goldstein, MIKE DEAN, KIRBY, Paul McCartney & Kanye West |
| Release Date | Dec. 31, 2014 |
| Label | Concord Music Group, Rock The World, Universal Music Group, G.O.O.D. Music & Def Jam Recordings |
| Album | Empty |
Only One Lyrics » Kanye West
[Produced by Mike Dean & Paul McCartney]
[Video by Spike Jonze]
[Verse 1]
As I lay me down to sleep
I hear her speak to me
Hello ‘Mari, how ya doin’?
I think the storm ran out of rain, the clouds are movin’
I know you’re happy, ‘cause I can see it
So tell the voice inside ya head to believe it
I talked to God about you, he said he sent you an angel
And look at all that he gave you
You asked for one and you got two
You know I never left you
‘Cause every road that leads to Heaven’s right inside you
So I can say
[Chorus]
Hello, my only one, just like the mornin’ sun
You’ll keep on risin’ ’til the sky knows your name
Hello my only one, remember who you are
No you’re not perfect but you’re not your mistakes
[Verse 2]
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Oh, the good outweighs the bad even on your worst day
Remember how I’d say
Hey hey one day, you’ll be the man you always knew you could be
And if you knew how proud I was
You’d never shed a tear, have a fear, no you wouldn’t do that
And though I didn’t pick the day to turn the page
I know it’s not the end every time I see her face, and I hear you say
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About Kanye West’s Only One from Empty
“Only One” is the first song released by Kanye West since his sixth studio album
Yeezus
. It’s an R&B song co-produced by Sir Paul McCartney and sung from the perspective of Kanye’s late mother, Dr. Donda West as she looks down on her son from Heaven.
Critics have compared
the song’s stripped down aesthetic and auto-tuned vocals to those on
808s & Heartbreak
, Kanye’s fourth studio album. In a press release, Kanye said that he
couldn’t remember singing the song when the lines were played back to him, and he concluded that Donda was sending him a message
. During an interview with
The Breakfast Club
, Kanye also mentioned some of the lyrics seemed to be channeled from his grandmother.
It’s worth noting that in
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
, Kanye in 2002 shared that his name meant “the only one” in Amharic.
The song debuted at number 35 on the Hot 100, making it Paul McCartney’s first top 40 hit in the U.S. in over 25 years (
“My Brave Face”
reached number 25 on the charts in 1989).
“Only One” was
slated to be
on West’s
So Help Me God
in 2014, but after not releasing that album, West dropped the song to iTunes on New Year’s Eve 2014. It was dropped from the album sometime between 2014 and the release of the first
SWISH
tracklist in January 2016.
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FAQs About Only One
Does Paul McCartney have any songs similar to “Only One”?
Like “Only One,” Paul McCartney wrote
“Let It Be”
about his departed mother:
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom: let it be
How have music critics described “Only One”?
Rolling Stone
compared “Only One” to “a bittersweet bonus track from Kanye’s
808s and Heartbreak
.”
Billboard
called it “an intimate conversation between both Wests”. In a lengthy piece,
Noisey
described it as “classic Kanye… confident (some would say arrogant) but earnest, honest and vulnerable, aware of itself but unconcerned with impressions.”
Some were less kind.
Bloomberg
called it “unfinished” and “meandering”, while the
Los Angeles Times
called it West’s worst-ever track, and drew comparisons to McCartney’s ill-fated collaborations with
Stevie Wonder
and
Michael Jackson
.
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