Lyrics
I got my issues, I admit that
You got some things that hold you back
But we are acting like we’re children
Looking to blame for what we lack
Before we lose everything, we have tomorrow
Can we forget what went wrong yesterday, darling?
And I’m in the streets, I thought I could be discreet
But I messed up something sweet
Just what I need is some time to tell you, please
I’m on my knees, this was never meant to be
I did rubbish, and it is just what it is
With a heart that’s full of needs, and my lungs that barely breathe
You’re what I need, I admit it, I admit
No one could ever love me better than you did
No one could ever love me better than you did
One could have thought that this feeling would cease
But then, I miss you laying in my sheets
Shey you no see as my heart e dey bleed?
I don’t wanna lose you to what I did
And for your heart, I place the highest bid
Gimme an offer, I just can’t resist
Na for Pidgin and English I dey speak
You know I ain’t speaking Japanese
I got my issues, I admit that
You got some things that hold you back
But we are acting like we’re children
Looking to blame for what we lack
Before we lose everything, we have tomorrow
Can we forget what went wrong yesterday, darling?
It’s my fault and I blame me, I don’t blame the alcohol
I really should have known better, wasn’t thinking at all
Maybe with my penis, but not with my brain, and I know
This was off the limits, now, I gotta watch as you go
It’s the apology I couldn’t say to you, I know
If I could take back what I did, I would do it for sure
If I could get you the world, I would do it for you
It’s loyalty you deserve, I’ma give it to you
One could have thought that this feeling would cease
But then, I miss you laying in my sheets
Shey you no see as my heart e dey bleed?
I don’t wanna lose you to what I did
And for your heart, I place the highest bid
Gimme an offer, I just can’t resist
Na for Pidgin and English I dey speak
You know I ain’t speaking Japanese
I got my issues, I admit that
You got some things that hold you back
But we are acting like we’re children
Looking to blame for what we lack
Before we lose everything, we have tomorrow
Can we forget what went wrong yesterday, darling?
Song Meaning & Explanation
Pidgin & English — BNXN's Bruised, Beautiful Confession
Some apologies arrive polished; this one arrives limping, and that's exactly why it lands. BNXN builds Pidgin & English around a man too honest to dress up his failure, and the song's power comes from that refusal to flinch.
The structure mirrors real reconciliation — accusation giving way to accountability. He opens defensively, pairing "I got my issues" with "you got some things," as if guilt might be split evenly. But the song's emotional turn is its best moment: he drops the deflection and owns it outright, admitting he blames himself, not the alcohol, conceding he "wasn't thinking at all." That line about thinking with the wrong organ is crude, sure, but it's also disarmingly true to how these mistakes actually happen — impulsive, thoughtless, human.
Where the song earns its gospel-adjacent soul is in the language of devotion that follows the confession. "On my knees" reads as both romantic surrender and something closer to prayer — repentance staged like worship, begging not a god but a woman for grace. The title phrase itself becomes the song's cleverest metaphor: code-switching between Pidgin and English as a stand-in for emotional translation, insisting his remorse is legible in any tongue, that there's no ambiguity left in what he's saying.
Physically, the writing is vivid where it needs to be — "laying in my sheets," a bleeding heart rendered in Pidgin's blunt poetry ("my heart e dey bleed"), a "highest bid" for her forgiveness. That auction imagery is a smart touch, framing love as something he must actively out-bid his own failure to win back.
The chorus, though, repeats past the point of tension, and the hook could use one more twist to justify its return. Still, as heartbreak-gospel goes, this is lived-in, unguarded songwriting.
7.5/10
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