To my dear departed becomin' all that I feared, here's where it started Seems that nothing's as it appears, swear retarded No I get speared by my peers, yeah I'm a target It used to take a of millions for niggas not to be Most gave America hope Back the music had a message in it We was against it The was intended to lessen the gimmicks, but now Y'all a mess of it And somebody gotta this shit Rakim never wear a dress and shit I ain't a pessimist to say I ain't with it Your hearing's bad, you think it's alive, now that's the 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 my first love die, witnessin' murder When Common stopped ol' girl, what was he tellin' me? Cold world, now she won't dig you without a Love nerds, used to be into with felonies We need a new president, where the is Eric B? Or did my wordplay her? Now I see her with Thug and Future Like what did you do to her now My is this generation The imminent state of gentrification, desensitization I call her, she's in Marvin's room, is awkward now She moved more to south, her New Yorker crowd Met her with a cane, she changed, to walk 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 know who to When I her, "You've changed", she say, "Who would be the same" She right, this ain't the way we knew each other Or do I face the fact maybe we outgrew each other? It a while, but that's finally understood She wouldn't change if she I if this is love, I'm good
Everything has I can see it clear in Starin' at these four walls, that they're starin' back Took a while, now finally understood Would we it if we could? I if this is love, I'm good
Look, I can't get with you at all, our issue is You to every nigga now that dribbles a ball Did I miss a red flag? You wasn't before I can't even ridicule y'all, that'd be a bitter Wanna about our history I feel like you say is contradictory Whenever you visit me I at you and see remembrance, remnants Plenty resentments, it's not you but resemblance We diss other all out of fun, shit amuses me You threaten every I'm with, that just confuses me Say you want kids soon, now that's abuse to me And I just write about it in You're a muse to me I wanna ask you see yourself in five years How you about that, like what's the verdict? I wanna ask if you ever replay the past And if you do, when you finished is it it? I wanna ask if we each other so much How do we cause each so much pain? in all in each others lives We've without a claim I know some'll call clinically insane How do we the games? Was once enemies and then that energy Wasn't meant to be, the synergy had us mentally Minimally sprained so relentlessly he Despite when you you never could depend on me again oh Still here as none of this had ever taken place Are we checkin' to see if takin' our place? As we front like takin' up space I think currently the current we is makin' our But for what? Would that just seal it Did it all hurt so Do we wanna feel it again? I doubt it Took a while, still understood Would we it if we could? I swear if this is love, I'm
has changed I can see it in fact Starin' at these four walls, that they're starin' back a while, now it's finally understood Would we change it if we I if this is love, I'm good
Look, I can see the in your eyes, I wanna fix it But all your words are my pride, so I'm dismissive You think I wanna sit in this Talkin' supervised, by suit and ties? You a lie You could cry, the conditions of you and I, can't it Every lie she told you over the years, I'm face to face And now manifested You're overwhelmed and But feelin' neglected, I gotta it I can't to your so young brain Since our exchange you've been kept from me against as weaponry And as much as I her I'd never downplay your like that For you to judge her that Just a lesson later on that you'll like that We not alone in process, no, it's others like that But you spew sly remarks like "Why are we here? Like why are you Like why do you how I dispair?" I eat that, see you got a grudge, lil' nigga We flesh and blood, lil' nigga, no ifs, ands or buts, lil' You can think dad is nuts, lil' nigga I'm talkin' to you 'cause you came out of my nuts, nigga That's my on the matter, I won't budge, lil' nigga And I'll tell that to your mother and the judge, lil' At our next date, you gon' see that it's true Funny, my condescendin' ways, I see 'em in you Mannerisms I'm annoyed, yep I'm seein' that too I'm smilin', admirin' genes, I kinda that it's cute I was you twenty ago when pop popped up But nothin' like you, sad how recycle a cycle You missin' only a dad can give expect you to understand This doesn't matter to a kid and Our situation's not I fix it if I could I if this is love, I'm good
Everything has I can see it clear in Starin' at these four walls, angry that they're back Took a while, now it's finally Would we change it if we I swear if is love, I'm good