In "REFUND" by Terrell Grice feat. Coco Jones, exhaustion with love hardens into a demand for restitution. The hurt comes from being made to feel bitter and guarded after investing trust, care, and time that were never returned. The financial metaphor of deposits, being robbed blind, and needing a refund turns heartbreak into a transaction where emotional labor was stolen. The repeated call to run back the time frames the real loss as wasted years and sleepless nights. The closing insistence that love is too expensive lands as self-protection, not just anger.
REFUND Lyrics by Terrell Grice
(Feat. Coco Jones)
I’m so damn tired of love
I’ve had enough, I want off of it
I’m fresh out of trust
My guard is higher than it’s ever been
Stressing over what’s irrelevant
How dare you make me out to be
One of these bitches screaming “Niggas ain’t shit”?
But after the damage you’ve done to me
Here we go, uh-oh
These niggas still shady like it’s ’99
Have you up drinking and thinking all night
Way I’ve been played with, no, that shit ain’t right
I need a refund, return of my time
I’ve sown my seeds and I’ve made good deposits
That’s only left me alone in my bonnet
You robbed me blind, this heart of mine
I need a refund, better run me my time, oh
Hanging on by a thread, now I’m in the red, mm-mm
I know love is a risk, and you get what you give, but damn, mm-mm
When you get to deep in it, hard to see what’s going on
Next thing you know, you’re in your feels, on your own
I hate you for making me out to be
One of these bitches screaming “Niggas ain’t shit”
But after the damage you’ve done to me
Here we go, uh-oh
These niggas still shady like it’s ninety-nine
Have you up drinking and thinking all night (Drinking, thinking)
Way I’ve been played with, no, that shit ain’t right (Ain’t right)
I need a refund, return of my time (Return of my time)
I’ve sown my seeds and I’ve made good deposits (Ooh, ooh)
That’s only left me alone in my bonnet
You robbed me blind, this heart of mine
I need a refund, better run me my time (I need mine)
Nigga, run my time
I need a refund, yeah
Oh
Need a refund, yeah, a refund, yeah
Ooh, I’m off it
My love is too expensive
Nigga, refund that shit
