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  • 5/6/2025
“Calm Down” is a breakout Afrobeats track by Nigerian artist Rema, originally released on February 11, 2022, as the second single from his debut album Rave & Roses Written by Divine Ikubor (Rema) alongside producers Andre Vibez and London, the mid‑tempo love song is set in B major at 107 BPM and finds Rema confessing an infatuation so powerful it “calms down” his world

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00:00Baby calm down, calm down
00:20Tell this your body he put in my heart for lockdown
00:23For lockdown, oh lockdown
00:25Tell you sweet life, phantom, phantom
00:28If I tell you, say, I love you
00:30No, they ouais me no
00:32Oh, young girl
00:33Don't tell me, no, no, no
00:34Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:39Baby gon' git me yow, lololololo
00:42You got me like
00:45Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:48Shady gon' git me yow, lolololo
00:51I see this wine girl from my party
00:56She's wine yellow
00:57Every other girl, they do too much, but this girl mellow
01:02Now you're manifying situation, I go use this girl, I'm mellow
01:07Finally, I find a way to talk to the girl, but she ain't no one follow
01:11Who you gonna phone for, why ain't no one come for
01:14Then I start to feel a bum bum, cause she de give me small, small
01:19I know, say she's a big person down, cause she feelin' me sick
01:23Cause her friends, cause they got my light ring
01:25Yeah, I know we look dry, but for you, I get down now
01:34And my hips make you cry when I'm movin' around you
01:39Do it once, do it twice, a push back, you hold me tight
01:43Get a taste for a night, baby show me you can calm down, calm down
01:49Dance with me and take the lead now, lead now
01:54Got you so high that you can't calm down, calm down
01:58Don't you ask, you know you're allowed, allowed
02:03When it's you, I can't say no
02:06Baby, give me
02:10Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
02:40I'm so not willing to go on
02:42Got my hand on your heart now, I can feel it raise
02:47If I leave then you say you can never love again
02:51Wanna give you it all but can't promise that I'll stay
02:56And that's the rest you'll take
02:58Baby calm down, calm down
03:01Tell this your body he put in my heart for lockdown
03:04For lockdown, oh lockdown
03:06You'll use me like Fantaho, Fantaho
03:10Even tell you say I love you no day for me
03:13Yangau, oh Yangau
03:14Think no, no, no, no
03:16Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
03:20Baby gon give me yo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo
03:25Tell me like woo-hoo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo
03:29Shady gon give me yo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo
03:34The club isn't the best
04:04place to find the lovers at the bar is where I go
04:08Me and my friends sat at the table doing shots, tripping fast and then we talk slow
04:12And I come over and start up a conversation with just me and trust me I'll give it a chance
04:17Now I take my hand, stop and pan the man on the jukebox and then we start to dance
04:22And now I'm singing like girl you know I want your love
04:25Your love was handmade for somebody like me
04:28Come on now follow my lead
04:30I may be crazy don't mind me
04:32Say boy let's not talk too much
04:35Grab all my waist and put that body on me
04:38I'm coming now follow my lead
04:40I'm coming now follow my lead
04:42I'm in love with the shape of you
04:46We push and pull like a magnet do
04:48Although my heart is falling too
04:51I'm in love with your body
04:53Last night you were in my room
04:56Now my bedsheets smell like you
04:58Every day discovering something brand new
05:00I'm in love with your body
05:02I'm in love with your body
05:04Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
05:05I'm in love with your body
05:06I'm in love with your body
05:07I'm in love with your body
05:08Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
05:09I'm in love with your body
05:11I'm in love with your body
05:13Oh, I, oh, I, oh, I, oh, I'm in love with your body
05:18Every day discovering something brand new I'm in love with the shape of you
05:23When we came, we let the story begin We're going out on our first date
05:27You and me are thrifty, so go all you can eat Fill up your bag and I fill up your plate
05:32We talk for hours and hours about the sweet and the sour And how your family's doing okay
05:37And even getting a taxi, kissing the backseat Tell the driver, make the radio play
05:42And I'm singing like, girl, you know I want your love Your love was handmade for somebody like me
05:48I'm coming now, follow my lead I may be crazy, don't mind me
05:53Say, boy, let's not talk too much Grab on my waist and put that body on me
05:58I'm coming now, follow my lead I'm coming now, follow my lead
06:02I'm in love with the shape of you We push and pull like a magnet, too
06:09Although my heart is falling, too I'm in love with your body
06:13Last night you were in my room Now my bedsheets smell like you
06:18Every day discovering something brand new I'm in love with your body
06:23I'm in love with your body
06:28I'm in love with your body
06:33I'm in love with your body
06:38Everything discovering something brand new
06:41I'm in love with the shape of you
06:43Come on, be my baby, come on
07:03I'm in love with the shape of you
07:06Push and pull like a magnetic
07:08But what my heart is falling to
07:11I'm in love with your body
07:13Last night you were in my room
07:16Now my bedsheets smell like you
07:18Every day discovering something brand new
07:21I'm in love with your body
07:23Come on baby, my baby
07:25Come on, come on baby
07:26I'm in love with your body
07:28Come on baby, my baby
07:30Come on, come on baby
07:31I'm in love with your body
07:33Come on baby, my baby
07:35Come on baby
07:36I'm in love with your body
07:38Every day discovering something brand new
07:41I'm in love with the shape of you
07:43I'm in love with your body
07:48I'm in love with your body
07:51I'm in love with your body
07:52A little, a little feel
08:00Give a little, give a little love
08:07Give a little, give a little love
08:07Give a little, give a little feel
08:14Give a little, give a little love
08:20Whichever way you go, you gotta keep it light
08:22There's never enough time for talking
08:26Move around each other like satellites
08:29How much longer till this tension breaks?
08:42Watch you as you watch the door
08:44You're gonna find another
08:47Find another
08:49And that hope can't take it anymore
08:52Everybody have a hands up
08:59Good time
09:00Everybody throw your hands up
09:03Yeah
09:04Everybody throw your hands up
09:06Everybody throw your hands up now
09:08Start the party, throw your hands up
09:11Yeah
09:12Everybody throw your hands up
09:13Everybody throw your hands up now
09:16Next
09:18You're gonna find a small
09:23You're gonna find another
09:23One
09:24You're
09:24Being
09:24You're
09:25University
09:26You're
09:27You're
09:28By
09:29And
09:29You're
09:29You're
09:30You're
09:31Don't
09:31You're
09:31Definitely
09:32You're
09:32Don't
09:33I'm
09:33Unless
09:34Maybe
09:35Unless
09:36You're
09:37You
09:37I'm
09:38You're
09:39Not
09:39I
09:41You
09:41Hope
09:41I
09:42phere
09:43You
09:43Are
09:44Feelin' like, feelin' like it's a good time
09:50Feelin' like, feelin' like it's a good night
09:54Feelin' right, feelin' like, got the good high
09:57Come on everybody have a hands up good time
10:01Everybody throw your hands up, yeah
10:05Everybody throw your hands up, everybody throw your hands up now
10:09Start the
10:14I'll see you next time
11:14I think we should just be gone off, yeah, yeah
11:33I think we should just be gone off, I'm running out of your love
11:38I think we should just be gone off, I'm running out of your love
11:54I think we should just be gone off, I'm running out of your love

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