Amethyst is the fourth mixtape by singer Tinashe. It was self released on March 16, 2015 as a "thank you to her fans." It was named after her birthstone.
Dreams Are Real is a R&B song with heavy synth beats and elements of hip hop as Tinashe sings about how you fall into a dream and it becomes a reality with the lyrics, "Sky goes blue/ Love flows through/ And how do you feel?/ Dreams are real/ Dreams are real". This track also contains a interpolation of "Bound 2" by Kanye West.
Wrong is where the singer talks about her success in the music business while also admitting about a recent heartbreak singing on the first verse with, "Ahhh Invader/ Look at you/ Do you even know who you are?/ Do you even know what's true?/ You know you're wrong/ You know you're wrong/ You know you're wrong/ You did me wrong/ And you do it again, and you do it and you do it again/ And you do it again, I let you do it, I let you do it again", and then moves to the chorus with lyrics, "I'm still in love with you/ I'm still in love with you/ You're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong/ I swear one day, one day I will be gone". This song samples "Summer Madness" by Kool & The Gang.
Something To Feel talks about Tinashe being with a man who has told her nothing but lies. Therefore, she can't stay in the relationship saying, "Feed me lies/ I believed you/ That's the saddest thing I believed in you/ But I really shouldn't be surprised/ Fall down hard/ Ain't no way love/ It's been too rough, finally had enough/ I need to make it out the dark".
On Looking 4 It, Tinashe is saying that she'd rather be lonely than to love a man who is just after his own gain singing on the hook, "I be, looking for love in, all the wrong places/ I be, looking for love in, all the wrong places/ I be, on the low looking for it".
Wanderer is a smooth track in which Tinashe describes as her lover as a wanderer with the lyrics, "You're a wanderer (run baby)/ He's moving on tonight to find/ You're living in between the lines/ You roam, wanderer (run baby)/ Stuck in between space and time/ Lost in your mind".
Worth It featuring IamSu! is a bouncy song with Tinashe doing a DJ Khaled reference on the second hook singing, "We the best, we the best, we the best/ We the best in the west/ We the best, we the best, we the best/ We the best in the west".
Just The Way I Like You serves as the closer for Amethyst. Tinashe begins to wonder if she puts people off when it comes to her music career singing, "Sometimes I wonder if I make myself too unavailable/ Deal with less people than you count legs on an end table/ What can I say I'm loyal/ Sometimes it hurts to be loyal/ Sometimes I think I'm missing out on things I'm supposed to through/ Guess sacrifices is when you're trying to take over at 22/ I'm so focused I'm focused, I'm so focused, I'm focused".
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