Godspeed, the sixteenth track released on Frank Ocean’s 2016 album Blonde, is defined by Oxford Dictionary as “good fortune” or “a wish to a person starting on a journey”. Godspeed can be perceived as a lyrical song embodying closure, the closure of bitterness individuals, and the reshaping and permanence of love. 

I will always love you

How I do

Let go of a prayer for you

Just a sweet word

  The reshaping of love, to a smaller place in our heart, is dealt with extensively throughout the first verse. Ocean opens the song by describing that love has the capability to leave us permanently affected and imprinted. There is not necessarily a distinction that love must be banished after a breakup of a friendship or relationship; moreover, we simply must reform it to a more appropriate form. After ending a friendship, a person doesn’t lose all compassion for a companion. There is a level of compassion we hold in our hearts that incline us to hope for success for an individual whose meaningful to us. 

Still, I’ll always be there for you

How I do

I let go of my claim on you

it’s a free world

…But you’ll have this place to call home, always

  In the following line, Ocean prays for someone who hurt him, which shows growth and maturity. The middle verse exhibits comfort in closure and surrendering hostility. Ocean sings that  although he is moving forward and gaining closure, he will not allow his love to morph into bitterness: “But you’ll have this place to call home, always”.. Individuals often cling to normalcy to feel a sense of control in their lives.. Living in the moment rather than the past grants a sense of freedom and contentment.

I’ll always love you 

Until the time we die

  Ocean ends the song illustrating the timeless nature of love. Although we diminish the level of control love has over us, it isn’t easily possible to reach complete carelessness. Ocean claims just that in this final verse,  expressing that love is transforming and there is comfort in freedom from heartbreak by living momentarily rather than ceaselessly in the past.  The 2:57 second track is an exquisitely illustrated piece embodying the beauty in moving forward and the unrelenting permanence of love.