Cold December

Album

Beautiful Mind

Label

Alamo Records

Genre

Hip hop

Composer(s)

Evenson Clauseille;Hank Jr. Williams;Justin Bradbury;Luke Walker;Rodarius M. Green;Thomas Horton

Entered Chart

Jan 29, 2022

Peak Date

Feb 5, 2022

Released

January 17, 2022

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Alamo

"Cold December" finds Rod Wave showing his softer side as he talks about his love experiences. He recalls on the sole verse: His unnamed high school girlfriend. As they got older, they changed and grew apart. A girlfriend Dee, who he fell for "hard and fast." Wave abandoned Dee after getting her pregnant. Someone he lost interest with after a holiday in Puerto Rico. Wave can't even remember her name. A girl named Brianna. He met Brianna through her friend Kearra, and she was with him during his come-up. Wave portrays himself as a romantic who falls in love easily but has commitment issues. The title speaks of the loneliness of spending the holidays on your own. The singer remains optimistic he will eventually meet a girl he'll want to spend the rest of his life with. Then he will have no more "Cold Decembers." Rod Wave's go-to producer, TnTXD, helmed "Cold December" along with JB, Lukecmon, and ThatBossEvan. They concocted a trap-laced, loosely country-flavored backing track that starts and ends with a pitch-shifted sample of Hank Williams Jr.'s 1979 track "O.D.'d In Denver." Rod Wave first shared a snippet of "Cold December" on social media in June 2021. Despite the track receiving a positive reception, the artist said four months later during an Instagram Live session he would "probably never" release the ballad. Something or someone changed his mind, maybe his record label, and he dropped the song on January 17, 2022.

(Started the tour out in Denver, Colorado)
(I made the first one but I did not make the second show)

Yeah, uh
It's safe to say I been this way since I was eighteen
The same night I fall in love, I feel it fading
Who can you love, who can you trust now that you're mainstream?
Don't want no love, don't got no trust, I feel me changin' (yeah)
Sometimes I think about my high school sweetheart (oh)
But times change, people change and grow apart
I fell so hard and fast for Dee, I wanna start a family (family)
She sure resent me, she got pregnant, and she felt abandoned (oh)
That shit with what's-her-name was faster than I had planned it (oh)
She moved away from San Diego, livin' in Miami (Miami)
We caught a flight to Puerto Rico, she was sweet as candy (candy)
She just ain't know she had my heart before the plane landed (yeah)
And by the time I got home (oh)
I just wanted to be alone
I met Brianna through Kearra, they were the best of friends (oh, oh)
She turned her head, and we moved up just like the Jeffersons (yeah)

I need your all each and every day (oh)
If I can't then I'll fade
And I don't mean to rush
But I easily fall in love (yeah)
Uh, in my head I know that that ain't right
But I believe in first sight, yeah
We can fall in love right here tonight
Run away and be together for life

No more cold Decembers
Lonely cold Decembers
No Decembers
Lonely cold Decembers (yeah)
No more Decembers
Lonely cold Decembers (yeah)
Cold Decembers (yeah)
Lonely cold Decembers, yeah

Mm (grrah), yeah
Uh, uh, uh, yeah
Uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah

(But I OD'd in Denver and I just can't remember her name)
(I guess you could say that my love life was not up to par)
(Too many nights alone had left some permanent scars)
(She told me she'd love me and I told her that I'd do the same)
(Then I OD'd in Denver and I just can't remember her name)
(Then I OD'd in Denver and I just can't remember her name)
(I brought it on myself and I guess that I shouldn't complain)
(Doc said, "Son, you can't do anymore of that cocaine")