It seems as though the majority of Ariana Grande’s new album Positions is about her new boyfriend, Dalton Gomez.

However, one of Ariana’s past loves also made it onto the album, and in the most heartfelt way possible – the late Mac Miller.

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In her new song ‘Off the Table’, a collaboration with The Weeknd, Ariana sings about whether or not she’s ready to move on into a more serious relationship.

 

 

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After being longtime friends and dating for two and a half years, Ariana and Mac Miller called it quits in May of 2018.  According to Ariana, Mac’s ‘substance abuse issues’ played a major role in their breakup,’ “I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be.  I have cared for him and tried to support his sobriety and prayed for his balance for years (and always will of course) but shaming/blaming women for a man’s inability to keep his shit together is a very major problem. Let’s please stop doing that. Of course I didn’t share about how hard or scary it was while it was happening but it was. I will continue to pray from the bottom of my heart that he figures it all out and that any other woman in this position does as well,” Ariana wrote on Twitter.

 

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Less than a month after their breakup, Ariana began dating Pete Davidson, and the two got engaged in June of that same year.  Unfortunately, Ariana and Pete ended their relationship shortly after Mac’s passing in September due to an accidental overdose.

In July of 2019, Ariana told Vogue Magazine, “Mac’s passing was pretty all-consuming.  By no means was what we had perfect, but, like, f**k. He was the best person ever, and he didn’t deserve the demons he had. I was the glue for such a long time, and I found myself becoming…less and less sticky. The pieces just started to float away.”

 

Ariana continues, “My friends were like, ‘Come [to New York City]! We’re gonna have a fun summer.’ And then I met Pete, and it was an amazing distraction. It was frivolous and fun and insane and highly unrealistic, and I loved him, and I didn’t know him. I’m like an infant when it comes to real life and this old soul, been-around-the-block-a-million-times artist. I still don’t trust myself with the life stuff.”

In her new song with The Weeknd, Ariana begins with singing, “Will I ever love the same way again? (Way again) / Will I ever love somebody like the way I did you? / Never thought you’d be so damn hard to replace,” which is clearly about Mac, and also addresses her confusion, “Might not be quite yet healed or ready / Should I be goin’ too steady?”

 

 

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The lyrics to ‘Off the Table’ are below.

 

[Verse 1]
Will I ever love the same way again? (Way again)
Will I ever love somebody like the way I did you?
Never thought you’d be so damn hard to replace
I swear I don’t?mean?to?be this way
If?I can’t have?you, is love completely off the table?
Do I sit this one out and wait for the next life? (Next life)
Am I too cold? Am I not nice?
Might not be quite yet healed or ready
Should I be goin’ too steady? (Too steady)
But I just wanna know is love compl?tely off the table?

 

[Chorus]
Will you b? there? (Will you be there?)
Can I still love you? (Can I, can I, babe?)
Not yet healed or ready (Not ready)
Shouldn’t be goin’ too steady (Too steady)
Just wanna know is love completely off the table?

 

[Verse 2]
I’ll wait for you
Even though it always feels like I’ll be number two
To someone you can’t hold anymore
If you let me in, I’m ready to give you what I couldn’t before
‘Cause I got you, girl, let me help you through it
You’re trying to fill the void with a couple boys
I can see right through it (You can see right through it)
I can you love you harder than I did before
Was in a dark place back then
I was toxic, then I was toxic to someone else
I was haunted by the hills (Oh yeah, yeah)
I couldn’t give you my all, but I will
If you let me in your arms (Your arms)
If you let me in your heart
I don’t think that love’s completely off the table


[Chorus]

[Bridge]
So can you hold me?
If I let you, can you prove it to me (Oh, no-no, no)
‘Cause I need you to calm me down, babe
Gotta get out of my head (Oh, woah)
Tryna be healed from this pain (Oh)
Just wanna know, just wanna know, can you, baby? (Hey)
Can you touch it like you believe in it, baby? (Oh, hey)
Do you think you never gonna leave on me, baby?
‘Cause I ain’t her and you ain’t him, thankfully (Baby, don’t leave)
But it’s gon’ be hard to let someone else in again (Woah)
Baby, baby (Woo-hoo)

[Outro]
I swear, I swear
I will wait for you, whenever you need
Ooh, ooh

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