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One of Frank Ocean’s saddest, starkest love songs is ‘Dear April.’ It also comes from his double A-side, Dear April / Cayendo.

The lyrics, as well as the instrumentals, are straightforward and spare by Frank’s standards, expressing the simple sentiment ‘I still really, really love you, like I do.’įans have suggested that the song echoes the opening line of ‘Godspeed,’ closely matching the lyrics, which is carried by a similar melody. Released in lockdown, the track comes from Frank’s mournful, acoustic double A-side record, Dear April / Cayendo. The melancholic ‘Cayendo’ (Spanish for ‘falling’) sees Frank Ocean singing in Spanish and English. The song is unusually structured with André 3000s rap seeing the track through to the end.