Dalam lagu "Don't Know What to Tell Ya", Aaliyah mengungkapkan dilema dalam suatu hubungan yang dipenuhi ketidakpercayaan dan posesif. Dia mempertanyakan motif pasangannya yang menginginkan kontrol penuh atas dirinya, menuntut keintiman yang tidak dapat diberikan, dan mengekang kebebasannya. Lagu ini mengeksplorasi perjuangan untuk mempertahankan cinta di tengah keraguan dan kecemasan yang terus-menerus, menyoroti pentingnya kepercayaan sebagai fondasi yang tak tergoyahkan dalam hubungan.
Don't Know What to Tell Ya Lyrics
Aaliyah
[Chorus:]
you wanna handcuff me
but yo I don't know what to tell ya (don't know what to tell ya)
you want my intimacy
but yo I don't know what to tell ya (don't know what to tell ya)
you wanna wall around me
I swear I don't know what to tell ya (don't know what to tell ya)
you want my lock and my key
but yo I don't know what to tell ya (don't know what to tell ya)
[Verse 1:]
Incarceration what I'm facin'
when I'm with you
your watchin' my every move
tryin' to pick up on some clues
we play twenty questions
everytime I walk in or out the door
what do you bother for (what do you bother for)
get comfortable its yours
Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
cracking stressing and second guessing
many time and time again
we go from lovers back to friends
got to put this to an end
[Repeat Chorus 1x]
[Verse 2:]
no justification for your actions
should have been somewhere relaxing
don't compare me to your last one
I can't help it she was a fast one
a sassy one I'm a classy one
I can't keep them from getting at me hun
seems like that should make you happy hun
Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
cracking I can't deny it why I try to put up with you
these insecurities everyday
pushing my love away hay
[Repeat Chorus 3x]
Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
Its gonna take Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
Its gonna take Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
cracking
you wanna handcuff me
but yo I don't know what to tell ya (don't know what to tell ya)
you want my intimacy
but yo I don't know what to tell ya (don't know what to tell ya)
you wanna wall around me
I swear I don't know what to tell ya (don't know what to tell ya)
you want my lock and my key
but yo I don't know what to tell ya (don't know what to tell ya)
[Verse 1:]
Incarceration what I'm facin'
when I'm with you
your watchin' my every move
tryin' to pick up on some clues
we play twenty questions
everytime I walk in or out the door
what do you bother for (what do you bother for)
get comfortable its yours
Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
cracking stressing and second guessing
many time and time again
we go from lovers back to friends
got to put this to an end
[Repeat Chorus 1x]
[Verse 2:]
no justification for your actions
should have been somewhere relaxing
don't compare me to your last one
I can't help it she was a fast one
a sassy one I'm a classy one
I can't keep them from getting at me hun
seems like that should make you happy hun
Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
cracking I can't deny it why I try to put up with you
these insecurities everyday
pushing my love away hay
[Repeat Chorus 3x]
Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
Its gonna take Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
Its gonna take Its gonna take T-R-U-S-T to keep my L-O-V-E
cracking
