John Mayer, Frank Ocean 'Wildfire' AUDIO & LYRICS, 'Paradise Valley' Album LISTEN
Frank Ocean appears on a slow tempo track from John Mayer's upcoming album. The song titled Wildfire, only features Ocean's vocals.
"Back in Paris you told me you were suicidal. It's not a vacation if I lose you to Eiffel. You're gorgeous but you can't fly. A hidden admirer sent me roses white as fire. We took our handfuls it was war, flower fighter," Ocean sings.
Mayer, who played guitar on Pyramids and White off Ocean's debut channel Orange, gushed about the 25-year-old's talent during an interview with Rolling Stone in January.
"Frank is such an interesting, deep, touched, wonderful guy," he told the magazine. "They don't make a lot of other Frank Oceans, and the guy is looking for another. And the way that his mind works is craving the same frequency that he's able to communicate on, and I think he's just searching for that kind of depth that he has inside of himself in someone else. He's fascinating to me. He's so great."
Mayer's sixth studio album will also feature a collaboration with on-again-off-again girlfriend Katy Perry titled Who You Love.
"My girl, she ain't the one that I saw coming. Sometimes I don't know which way to go and I've tried to run before but I'm not running anymore," Mayer sings on the love tune. "You love, who you love."
His album will be the follow-up to Born and Raised, released in May 2012. The album went to No.1 on the charts selling 219,000 in its first week, according to Billboard. That record became his third No.1 beating Carrie Underwood's Blown Away and Apocalyptic Love by Slash of Guns N' Roses that week.
Paradise Valley hits stores on Aug. 20 but fans can now stream it in full on iTunes.
Paradise Valley tracklist:
01. Wildfire
02. Dear Marie
03. Waiting on the Day
04. Paper Doll
05. Call Me the Breeze
06. Who You Love
07. I Will Be Found (Lost at Sea)
08. Wildfire
09. You're No One 'til Someone Lets You Down
10. Badge and Gun
11. On the Way Home