while out loosely partying. So just as he is living a “fast life”, she too would be living one of her own. And yes, most people would probably agree that getting seriously involved with that kind of woman isn’t the best idea. Or viewed from another direction, he most likely met the addressee under such circumstances, i.e. That is a metaphor that reads as if, as expressed in many of his other songs, Abel is unable to escape the excitable celebrity lifestyle that has been made accessible to him via his fame and wealth.
This postulation is buttressed during the third verse. It is here where we are introduced to an idea like The Weeknd, under inspiration from his mother, desiring to find a good girl. However, the “ fast life keeps gaining on” him. Indeed his homeys have “warned” him about getting mixed up with her “type” of woman. What type that is exactly is not specified. However, all lyrics considered, it is feasible to deduce that perhaps, in some capacity or another, she is mixed up with another man or men. But the story is at hand not that simple. Rather this lady is presented, even by the narrator himself, as being “no good”.
