To my dear dearly Shit's becomin' all that I feared, where it started Seems nothing's as it appears, swear it's retarded No wonder I get speared by my peers, I'm a target It to take a nation of millions for niggas not to be Amerikkka's Most America hope Back when the music had a in it We was against it The was intended to lessen the gimmicks, but now Y'all made a of it And somebody gotta address shit Rakim never wear a dress and shit I a pessimist to say I ain't impressed with it hearing's bad, you think it's alive, now that's the death in it When it was all about bars, wanted to it Surround yourself with bullshit, you'll be to step in it Came here with one objective, it further Now I'm watchin' my first die, witnessin' murder When Common stopped lovin' ol' girl, was he tellin' me? Cold world, now she dig you without a melody Love nerds, to be into niggas with felonies We need a new president, where the is Eric B? Or did my wordplay her? Now I see her with Young and Future Like what did you do to her now My generalization is generation The imminent state of this gentrification, I call her, in Marvin's room, everything is awkward now She moved more to south, deserted her New Yorker Met her with a cane, she changed, prefer to it out Stopped eatin' meat when she I worked in a slaughterhouse Now a new dame glued to the fame She used to accessorizin', now she's wearin' two chains Relationship too strained, I don't who to blame I tell her, "You've changed", she say, "Who would be the same" She right, 'cause this ain't the way we knew other Or do I the fact that maybe we outgrew each other? It took a while, but that's understood She wouldn't change if she I swear if this is love, I'm
Everything has I can see it clear in Starin' at these walls, angry that they're starin' back Took a while, now finally understood we change it if we could? I swear if is love, I'm good
Look, I can't get you at all, our issue is tall You to every nigga now that dribbles a ball Did I miss a red flag? You wasn't fickle I can't even y'all, that'd be a bitter resolve talk about our history I feel everything you say is contradictory Whenever you visit me I at you and see remembrance, remnants Plenty resentments, it's not you but resemblance We each other all out of fun, shit amuses me You threaten every girl I'm with, just confuses me Say you want kids soon, now that's abuse to me And I just write it in song You're like a to me I wanna ask where you see in five years How you about that, like what's the verdict? I ask if you ever replay the past over And if you do, when you is it worth it? I wanna ask if we love other so much How do we each other so much pain? Still in all in each others remained without a claim I know some'll call that insane How do we the games? Was once enemies and then that refrained meant to be, the synergy had us mentally drained Minimally so relentlessly he aims when you said you never could depend on me again oh Still we're here as none of had ever taken place Are we checkin' to see if someone's our place? As we like we're takin' up space I think currently the we is makin' our case But for what? Would that seal it again Did it all so much? Do we wanna feel it again? I doubt it a while, still nothing's understood Would we it if we could? I if this is love, I'm good
has changed I can see it in fact Starin' at these four walls, that they're starin' back Took a while, now it's finally Would we it if we could? I if this is love, I'm good
Look, I can see the pain in your eyes, I fix it But all your are fuelin' my pride, so I'm dismissive You think I sit in this courtroom supervised, scrutinized by suit and ties? You a lie You could cry, the of you and I, can't escape it Every lie she told you the years, I'm face to face with And now they overwhelmed and congested But feelin' neglected, I respect it I can't explain to your so brain Since our first exchange you've been from me Used as weaponry And as much as I her I'd never downplay your mother like For you to judge her that Just a lesson later on that discover like that We not alone in this process, no, it's like that But you spew these sly like "Why are we here? Like why are you why do you care how I dispair?" I gotta eat that, see you got a grudge, nigga We flesh and blood, nigga, no ifs, ands or buts, lil' nigga You can think dad is nuts, lil' nigga I'm talkin' to you 'cause you came out of my nuts, lil' That's my stance on the matter, I won't budge, nigga And tell that to your mother and the judge, lil' nigga At our next court date, you gon' see that true Funny, my condescendin' ways, I see 'em in you Mannerisms when I'm annoyed, yep I'm seein' too I'm smilin', admirin' genes, I kinda think that cute I was you twenty years ago when pop up But nothin' you, sad how life'll recycle a cycle You missin' intel a dad can give Can't you to understand This doesn't to a kid and since Our situation's not I fix it if I could I if this is love, I'm good
has changed I can see it clear in Starin' at these four walls, that they're starin' back Took a while, now it's finally Would we change it if we I swear if this is love, I'm