The 10 Best Lyrics From Frank Ocean's "Channel Orange"

Rap Genius breaks down the words on his new album.

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As one of the most anticipated albums of 2012, Frank Ocean's Channel Orange dramatically lives up to expectations, presenting a dreamy, confused exploration of the human psyche and Ocean's own views on love and emotion. Starting as a simple TV broadcast, the album crashes into a cacophony of chaotically opposed feelings and hopeless, detached dreams. Frank chooses to center his album on love, but takes the already complex emotion into uncharted realms and wild places, eventually confusing his lusts and passions.

By the end, Ocean produces one of the more tangled albums in recent memory, but one filled perfectly with clever wordplay, impassioned pleas, and a very real sense of dread and fear to which everyone can relate. Channel Orange is an approach from left field, but one solidly deserving of praise and a thorough listen through the darker cracks of the human condition.

For a break down of the album, we've linked with RapGenius to bring you The 10 Best Lines From Frank Ocean's Channel Orange, a mix selected for creativity, passion, and Ocean's now classic knack for revealing the depths of his chaotic heart.

10. "No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cool enough to kick it/Got a beach house I could sell you in Idaho” - Frank Ocean

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9. “You don’t know how little you matter/Until you’re all alone/In the middle of Arkansas/With a little rock left in that glass dick” - Frank Ocean

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8.“You’re good at being bad, you’re bad at being good/For Heaven’s sakes go to Hell knock knock knock knock on wood” - Andre 3000

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7. “This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup” - Frank Ocean

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6. “Close your eyes to what you can't imagine/We are the Xanny gnashing, Caddy smashing, bratty ass, he mad he snatched his daddy's Jag and used the shit for batting practice” - Earl Sweatshirt

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5. "The best song wasn't the single, but you weren't either/Livin' in Ladera Heights, the black Beverly Hills/Domesticated paradise, palm trees and pools/The water's blue, swallow the pill" - Frank Ocean

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4. “I know you Forrest, I know you wouldn't hurt a beetle/But you're so buff, and so strong, I'm nervous Forrest” - Frank Ocean

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3. “Tid bits of intuition that I been gettin' abandon admission (Sierra Leone)/Abandon mission, you must be kiddin', this shit feelin' different” - Frank Ocean

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2. Then your lipstick, Cleopatra/Then your six-inch heels, catch her/She's headed to the pyramid/She's working at the pyramid tonight - Frank Ocean

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1. “There's somethin' about you I can't believe I'm even talking to you, tellin' you this right now/You're special I wish you could see what I see” - Frank Ocean

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