To my dear departed Shit's becomin' all that I feared, here's where it Seems that nothing's as it appears, it's retarded No wonder I get speared by my peers, yeah I'm a It used to take a nation of for niggas not to be Most gave America hope Back the music had a message in it We was rebels it The was intended to lessen the gimmicks, but now made a mess of it And gotta address this shit Rakim would wear a dress and shit I ain't a pessimist to say I ain't with it Your hearing's bad, you it's alive, now that's the death in it When it was all about bars, wanted to it yourself with bullshit, you'll be liable to step in it Came with one objective, gettin' it further Now I'm watchin' my first love die, murder When Common lovin' ol' girl, what was he tellin' me? Cold world, now she won't dig you without a nerds, used to be into niggas with felonies We a new president, where the fuck is Eric B? Or did my confuse her? Now I see her with Thug and Future Like did you niggas do to her now My generalization is generation The imminent state of gentrification, desensitization I call her, she's in room, everything is awkward now She moved to south, deserted her New Yorker crowd Met her with a cane, she changed, prefer to it out eatin' meat when she heard I worked in a slaughterhouse Now she's a new dame glued to the She used to accessorizin', now she's wearin' two chains Relationship too strained, I don't who to blame When I tell her, "You've changed", she say, "Who be the same" She right, 'cause ain't the way we knew each other Or do I face the fact that maybe we outgrew each It took a while, but that's finally She wouldn't change if she I swear if this is love, I'm
Everything has I can see it clear in Starin' at four walls, angry that they're starin' back Took a while, now it's understood Would we change it if we I swear if is love, I'm good
Look, I can't get you at all, our issue is tall You tied to every nigga now that dribbles a Did I a red flag? You wasn't fickle before I can't even ridicule y'all, be a bitter resolve talk about our history I feel like everything you say is Whenever you visit me I at you and see remembrance, remnants Plenty resentments, not you but there's resemblance We diss each other all out of fun, amuses me You threaten girl I'm with, that just confuses me Say you want kids soon, now that's abuse to me And I just about it in song You're a muse to me I wanna ask where you see in five years How you goin' about that, like what's the I ask if you ever replay the past over And if you do, you finished is it worth it? I wanna ask if we love each other so How do we cause each other so pain? in all in each others lives We've without a claim I some'll call that clinically insane How do we remedy the Was once enemies and then that energy Wasn't to be, the synergy had us mentally drained 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 to see if someone's takin' our place? As we front we're takin' up space I think currently the current we is our case But for what? Would that just seal it Did it all hurt so much? Do we wanna it again? I doubt it Took a while, still nothing's Would we it if we could? I swear if is love, I'm good
has changed I can see it clear in Starin' at four walls, angry 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
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 conditions of you and I, can't it Every lie she told you the years, I'm face to face with And now manifested overwhelmed and congested But feelin' neglected, I gotta it I can't explain to your so brain Since our first exchange 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 like a lesson later on that you'll discover 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 eat that, see you got a grudge, lil' nigga We and blood, lil' nigga, no ifs, ands or buts, lil' nigga You can think your dad is nuts, lil' I'm talkin' to you 'cause you came out of my nuts, nigga That's my stance on the matter, I budge, lil' nigga And I'll tell that to your 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 Mannerisms when I'm annoyed, yep I'm seein' too I'm smilin', admirin' genes, I kinda think it's cute I was you twenty years ago pop popped up But nothin' like you, sad how life'll recycle a You missin' only a dad can give expect you to understand This doesn't matter to a kid and Our situation's not I would fix it if I 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 it's understood Would we it if we could? I if this is love, I'm good