To my dear departed Shit's becomin' all that I feared, here's where it that nothing's as it appears, swear it's retarded No I get speared by my peers, yeah I'm a target It used to take a nation of millions for not to be Most gave America hope Back when the 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 wear a dress and I ain't a pessimist to say I ain't impressed it Your hearing's bad, you think it's alive, now the death in it When it was all about bars, to weddin' it Surround yourself with bullshit, be liable to step in it Came here with one objective, it further Now I'm my first love die, witnessin' murder When Common stopped lovin' ol' girl, was he tellin' me? world, now she won't dig you without a melody Love nerds, used to be into niggas with We need a new president, where the is Eric B? Or did my wordplay confuse Now I see her with Thug and Future Like did you niggas do to her now My is this generation The imminent of this gentrification, desensitization I her, she's in Marvin's room, everything is awkward now She more to south, deserted her New Yorker crowd Met her with a cane, she changed, prefer to it out Stopped eatin' meat 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 know who to I tell her, "You've changed", she say, "Who would be the same" She right, 'cause ain't the way we knew each other Or do I face the that maybe we outgrew each other? It took a while, but that's finally She change if she could I swear if this is love, I'm
Everything has 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 it if we could? I swear if this is love, I'm
Look, I can't get with you at all, our issue is You tied to every now that dribbles a ball Did I a red flag? You wasn't fickle before I can't even ridicule y'all, that'd be a resolve Wanna about our history I feel everything you say is contradictory you come visit me I look at you and see remembrance, Plenty resentments, not you but there's resemblance We diss each other all out of fun, shit me You threaten every girl I'm with, just confuses me Say you want real soon, now that's abuse to me And I just write about it in You're a muse to me I wanna ask where you see yourself in years How you goin' about that, what's the verdict? I wanna ask if you replay the past over And if you do, you finished is it worth it? I wanna ask if we love each so much How do we cause each other so much Still in all in each others We've remained without a I know some'll call clinically insane How do we remedy the Was once enemies and then that refrained Wasn't meant to be, the synergy had us drained Minimally sprained so relentlessly he Despite when you said you never could on me again oh Still we're here as none of this had ever 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 makin' our But for Would that just seal it again Did it all hurt so much? Do we wanna feel it again? I it a while, still nothing's understood Would we change it if we I swear if this is love, I'm
Everything has I can see it clear in Starin' at these four walls, angry they're 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 your eyes, I fix it But all your are fuelin' my pride, so I'm dismissive You think I wanna sit in courtroom Talkin' supervised, scrutinized by 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 overwhelmed and congested But feelin' neglected, I respect it I can't explain to your so young Since our exchange you've been kept from me Used as weaponry And as much as I her I'd never downplay your like that For you to judge her like Just a lesson later on that discover like that We not in this process, no, it's others like that But you spew these sly remarks "Why are we Like why are you near? Like why do you how I dispair?" I gotta eat that, see you got a grudge, nigga We flesh and blood, lil' nigga, no ifs, or buts, lil' nigga You can think dad is nuts, lil' nigga I'm to you 'cause you came out of my nuts, lil' nigga my stance on the matter, I won't budge, lil' nigga And I'll tell that to your and the judge, lil' nigga At our next 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 years ago when pop popped up But nothin' like you, sad how recycle a cycle You missin' only a dad can give Can't you to understand doesn't matter to a kid and since Our situation's not I fix it if I could I swear if is love, I'm good
Everything has I can see it in fact at these four walls, angry 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