To my dear departed Shit's all that I feared, here's where it started Seems that nothing's as it appears, swear retarded No wonder I get by my peers, yeah I'm a target It used to take a nation of millions for not to be Amerikkka's gave America hope Back the music had a message in it We was against it The best was to lessen the gimmicks, but now Y'all a mess of it And somebody address this shit Rakim would never a dress and shit I ain't a 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 bars, wanted to weddin' it Surround with bullshit, you'll be liable to step in it Came here with one objective, it further Now I'm my first love die, witnessin' murder Common stopped lovin' ol' girl, what was he tellin' me? Cold world, now she dig you without a melody nerds, used to be into niggas with felonies We a new president, where the fuck is Eric B? Or did my wordplay confuse Now I see her Young Thug and Future Like did you niggas do to her now My generalization is generation The state of this 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, prefer to it out Stopped eatin' meat when she I worked in a slaughterhouse Now she's a new glued to the fame She used to hate accessorizin', now wearin' two chains Relationship too strained, I know 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 fact that maybe we each other? It took a while, but that's understood She wouldn't change if she 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 Would we change it if we I swear if is love, I'm good
Look, I can't get with you at all, our is tall You to every nigga now that dribbles a ball Did I miss a red flag? You fickle before I even ridicule y'all, that'd be a bitter resolve talk about our history I feel like you say is contradictory Whenever you come me I look at you and see remembrance, resentments, it's not you but there's resemblance We each other all out of fun, shit amuses me You threaten every girl I'm with, that just me Say you want kids real soon, now abuse to me And I write about it in song You're like a to me I wanna ask where you see yourself in five How you goin' that, like what's the verdict? I wanna ask if you ever the past over And if you do, when you is it worth it? I ask if we love each other so much How do we each other so much pain? Still in all in each lives We've remained without a I some'll call that clinically insane How do we the games? Was once enemies and that energy refrained Wasn't meant to be, the had us mentally drained Minimally sprained so relentlessly he Despite when you said you never could on me again oh we're here as none of this had ever taken place Are we checkin' to see if someone's takin' our As we front like takin' up space I think currently the current we is our case But for what? Would that seal it again Did it all hurt so much? Do we wanna it again? I doubt it Took a while, nothing's understood Would we it if we could? I swear if is love, I'm good
has changed I can see it clear in Starin' at these walls, angry 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 eyes, I wanna fix it But all your are fuelin' my pride, so I'm dismissive You think I sit in this courtroom Talkin' supervised, scrutinized by suit and 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 You're and congested But feelin' neglected, I respect it I can't explain to your so young Since our first exchange been kept from me against as weaponry And as as I hate her I'd never downplay your mother that For you to judge her like Just a lesson later on that discover like that We not alone in this process, no, it's others like 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 flesh and blood, lil' nigga, no ifs, ands or buts, 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 I'll tell to your 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 Mannerisms when I'm annoyed, yep I'm seein' too I'm smilin', genes, I kinda think that it's cute I was you twenty years ago when pop up But like you, sad how life'll recycle a cycle You missin' only a dad can give expect you to understand This matter to a kid and since Our situation's not I fix it if I could I swear if this is love, I'm
Everything has I can see it in fact Starin' at these walls, angry that they're starin' back a while, now it's finally understood Would we it if we could? I if this is love, I'm good