Drake describes a toxic on-again-off-again relationship. No matter how badly this girl makes him feel about himself, he keeps finding reasons to justify staying with her.

The use of the word “swanging” has a couple of meanings in this song – firstly it ties to the baseball metaphors used throughout the song (peep the intro). Secondly it is used to reference both the Houston slang for driving back and forth slowly in your car, and the sample of the song “Swang” by Trae.