To my dear departed Shit's becomin' all that I feared, where it started Seems that nothing's as it appears, it's retarded No I get speared by my peers, yeah I'm a target It used to a nation of millions for niggas not to be Amerikkka's Most gave hope when the music had a message in it We was rebels it The was intended to lessen the gimmicks, but now Y'all a mess of it And somebody gotta address this Rakim would never wear a and shit I ain't a pessimist to say I ain't impressed it Your 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, be liable to step in it Came here with one objective, gettin' it Now I'm watchin' my love die, witnessin' murder When stopped lovin' ol' girl, what was he tellin' me? Cold world, now she won't dig you without a Love nerds, used to be niggas with felonies We need a new president, the fuck is Eric B? Or did my confuse her? Now I see her with Thug and Future what did you niggas do to her now My generalization is generation The imminent state of gentrification, desensitization I call her, she's in Marvin's room, is awkward now She more to south, deserted her New Yorker crowd Met her with a cane, she changed, to walk it out Stopped eatin' meat she heard I worked in a slaughterhouse Now she's a new dame to the fame She used to accessorizin', now she's wearin' two chains Relationship too strained, I don't who to blame When I 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 face the that maybe we outgrew each other? It took a while, but finally understood She change if she could I swear if is love, I'm good
Everything has I can see it in fact Starin' at these walls, angry that they're starin' back Took a while, now it's finally Would we it if we could? I swear if is love, I'm good
Look, I can't get with you at all, our issue is You tied to nigga now that dribbles a ball Did I a red flag? You wasn't fickle before I can't even ridicule y'all, be a bitter resolve Wanna talk 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 there's We each other all out of fun, shit amuses me You threaten every girl I'm with, just confuses me Say you want kids real soon, now abuse to me And I just write about it in 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 each so much How do we cause other so much pain? Still in all in each others We've without a claim I know some'll call that clinically How do we remedy the Was once enemies and then that refrained Wasn't meant to be, the synergy had us drained sprained so relentlessly he aims Despite when you you never could depend on me again oh Still we're here as none of this had taken place Are we checkin' to see if takin' our place? As we like we're takin' up space I think currently the current we is makin' our But for what? that just seal it again Did it all hurt so much? Do we wanna it again? I doubt it a while, still nothing's understood Would we it if we could? I swear if is love, I'm good
Everything has I can see it in fact Starin' at these four walls, angry that starin' back a while, now it's finally understood Would we change it if we I swear if is love, I'm good
Look, I can see the pain in eyes, I wanna fix it But all words 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 conditions of you and I, escape it Every lie she told you the years, I'm face to face with And now manifested You're overwhelmed and But neglected, I gotta respect it I can't explain to your so young Since our first exchange been kept from me Used as weaponry And as much as I her I'd never downplay your mother that For you to her like that Just a lesson later on that you'll like that We not alone in this process, no, it's others that But you spew sly remarks like "Why are we here? why are you near? why do you care how I dispair?" I gotta eat that, see you got a grudge, 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, lil' That's my stance on the matter, I won't budge, lil' And I'll tell that to mother and the judge, lil' nigga At our court date, you gon' see that it's true Funny, my condescendin' ways, I see 'em in you when I'm annoyed, yep I'm seein' that too I'm smilin', admirin' genes, I think that it's cute I was you twenty years ago pop popped up But nothin' you, sad how life'll recycle a cycle You missin' intel only a dad can Can't you to understand This matter to a kid and since Our not understood I would fix it if I I swear if this is love, I'm
has changed I can see it in fact Starin' at these four walls, angry that they're back Took a while, now it's finally we change it if we could? I swear if is love, I'm good