Beyonce’s Platinum Edition album features several new tracks including the latest single “Ring Off.” If you listen closely to the lyrics, you’ll hear Beyonce acknowledge the pain her mother, Tina Knowles went through before divorcing Matthew Knowles. Some speculate the lyrics are close to home for Beyonce because she experienced some of the same insecurities in her own marriage to Jay Z.
On the track, Beyonce sings:
Mama, I understand your many sleepless nights
When you sit and you think about Father
Or how you tried to be the perfect wife
You used to dress and fix your hair
Then you smiled through your tears
In the mirror you would stare
And say a prayer
Like “I wish he said I’m beautiful
I wish it didn’t hurt at all
I don’t know how I got here
I was once the one who had his heart”
Until you had enough then you took that ring off
You took that ring off
So tired of the lies and trying, fighting, crying
Took that ring off
Oh, now the fun begins
Dust yourself off and you love again
You found a new man now you shine and you’re fine
Like it’s my time, you took that ring off
