Love Song - Jean Grae.mp3

[01:15.18]She grew up believing in passion and love
[01:17.43]Whose folks divorced and remarried
[01:19.17]Very naive
[01:20.25]Seen life and committments that shoulda been dead and buried
[01:23.10]Highly sentimental
[01:24.15]Sensitive
[01:24.99]Gentle beyond the point she should be
[01:26.88]What might be obvious to most, she says they too bitter
[01:29.97]Can't see the world the way she does
[01:31.71]Clean lungs, undamaged liver
[01:33.24]Sees thugs through a pink-tinted glasses
[01:35.49]Occasionally
[01:36.54]**** does make her giggle
[01:37.59]Listen to some music closer
[01:39.09]Dudes approach her
[01:39.84]Lightly
[01:40.32]Wanna be her lover and she obliges
[01:42.39]Likes to cuddle under the covers by candlelit fires
[01:45.33]Oblivious to lying schemes to talk her out of clothes
[01:47.94]Says shes just in love with love
[01:49.35]Cuts her classes
[01:50.13]Spending too much time entrancing romancing
[01:52.26]Things are changing quickly
[01:53.61]She's asking "why aren't you spending more time with me?"
[01:56.37]*****'s eyes are getting shifty
[01:57.45]Coming over later smelling of *****
[01:59.13]On his face, jeans, and sweaters something's fishy
[02:02.07]And it's not what he tells her, man, it's what he don't
[02:04.62]And she don't understand and for some years, she probly won't
[02:07.41]Just wants an honest man
[02:08.91]For goodness sake
[02:09.81]They backstabbing and cutting her throat
[02:11.61]Restraining orders follow, but she still optomistic about it
[02:14.64]Like annie, thinking tomorrow will maybe be a better day
[02:17.58]I let her pray on bended knees "ask him to send prince charming, please"
[02:20.67]She's never cheated
[02:21.60]Treats her man well
[02:22.62]Cooks, cleans, dresses sexy for him
[02:24.51]Halter tops and tight jeans
[02:25.83]Would break the law for him
[02:27.15]Go through a couple of these relationships
[02:29.19]Still stays strong
[02:30.24]She's too young and dumb to call it quits
[02:32.31]Learns that she carrying twice
[02:33.81]Scared and afraid the first time
[02:35.37]The second she don't even cry
[02:36.96]Makes her wipe away his tears and it hurts
[02:39.00]They always leave return crazy, so she doesn't flirt
[02:41.73]Spends time warning the babies
[02:43.47]Goes through a couple of these relationships and still stays strong
[02:46.62]Too young and dumb to call it quits
[02:48.48]Its still a love song
[02:55.11]Shes got a good man
[02:56.22]Shes 19, he's 21 and sweet and honest
[02:58.71]Promised to love her
[02:59.61]Talk of marriage
[03:00.42]She would never wanna be somebody's baby's mother
[03:02.88]Use rubbers occasionally
[03:04.20]When she's flowing
[03:05.19]Open to all the affection and gifts and all the good manners he's showing
[03:08.34]He's trying to build a life for himself
[03:10.23]Studies late computer shit and she's missing attention that she's not getting
[03:14.25]*** dwindles
[03:14.67]Crawling in the sheets
[03:15.63]He say "ya tired" and she say she feel "neglect and defeat"
[03:18.54]Just doesn't see his ambition
[03:20.01]She wanna be the universe and hold his center position
[03:23.01]Starts hanging round the best friend more
[03:25.11]Crazy attraction takes impultive action
[03:27.03]Drop the drawers
[03:27.72]And falls in love
[03:28.47]The world explodes
[03:29.25]And she confesses "yeah I did it, so?"
[03:31.14]They so tight it like he moves when she stretches
[03:33.27]Over the couple years
[03:34.20]Too many stresses
[03:35.34]Girls who wanna fight her
[03:36.60]*****es writing letters
[03:37.68]Friendships disappearing
[03:39.00]Plus he rhymes, so it's competitive
[03:40.71]Pressure miscarriage
[03:41.82]They break up fifty times a week and make up just as much
[03:44.76]He's ****in', and I know, but pretending I'm out of touch
[03:47.67]It's getting strained and gets physical
[03:49.59]She cries until the river dries and leaves her dead and cold
[03:52.23]Packs up her things and leaves behind what I thought was gold was only gold-plated
[03:56.31]Thinking of all the other ones I coulda just left and up and dated
[03:59.73]Singled after four years
[04:01.14]Starting over never easy
[04:02.58]But it takes some time to realize your own worth
[04:05.13]Come into your own
[04:06.24]Play your mental rebirth
[04:07.50]She starts penning some better poems
[04:09.48]Straighten up her bank account
[04:10.92]Likes to take herself out
[04:12.63]I'm getting better at it
[04:14.07]I've had a few relationships
[04:15.69]But still too young and dumb enough to call it quits
[04:18.51]It's still a love song
[04:35.22]Love
[04:40.23]All I ever want is you
[04:41.07]All I ever had, leading in my life was you
[04:44.07]All that ever was, all I ever had
[04:52.17]Maybe it's easier to talk about this shit in third person
[04:55.26]Learning better
[04:55.92]Wooking pa nub in all the wrong places
[04:58.20]Like I'm Eddie Murphy
[04:59.25]Curse me to repeat the same cycle
[05:01.02]I'm breaking
[05:01.65]No longer think relations make a better woman
[05:04.02]Just for life, I'm pursuing
[05:05.31]Growing, but hopelessly romantic still
[05:07.32]Tasted weather in the bitter climates
[05:09.18]Love the sunshine better
[05:10.38]Dreaming of dream proposals
[05:11.73]Decent moral values placing higher on my chart
[05:14.28]Trying not to have a shallow heart
[05:15.99]But battle scars are deep and reaching to the depth of hell and back
[05:19.14]Try to give up the grudges
[05:20.58]Think it's experience and move from the clutches of sadness
[05:23.64]It's difficult
[05:24.60]Sometimes I wish I wasn't an adult
[05:26.79]Adolescent primetime sitcom star
[05:29.28]I've been too far and too much, too hard, for too long
[05:32.49]It's still a love song