Pain Is Love

(album: Pain Is Love - 2001)

Love don't love me
Is the only thing that seems to hold me
God can you explain why
Love don't love me
Is the only thing that seems to hold me
God can you explain why

I sit alone in my four cornered room staring at candles
Getting hot trying to handle, this hand that's been dealt to me
I don't need, especially in this world overwhelmed with greed
See we cut from a different tree
Y'all niggas hope and I wish a nigga would fuck with Inc
Went through the troubles and the struggle of hustling and running (what)
So the ones that come behind don't' run through nothing
They would fear no man but God and do a lot of fronting
And I'm here to tell the world that pain is loving
Like when I die I hope it rains
'Cause if it does, that mean the lord shared them niggas pain
Here lie our man slain
And I would get out the game if I could
But I promised all my life to my kids I'd make good
Can't stand my father and love my momma
Still I try, God can you explain why

Love don't love me
Is the only thing that seems to hold me
God can you explain why
Love don't love me
Is the only thing that seems to hold me
God can you explain why

I live my life under pistol, 'cause lately love ain't been a issue
With who's gone miss you, when you dead and gone
Will my name live on?
Or will I be the last to die and breathe and eat
'Cause I need a little love and affection and baby
I live like every day was my last one
Dang, I've been living my life (ha ha, yeah)
Like I'm a leave this world unmarked, smiles combed to horror
For all them days when it rains
And it feels like thangs ain't getting no better for me
Nobody loves me
Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me
And wipe the tears from eyes
'Cause in my heart I know only the strong survive
And I die for my family, so they can live a better life
I try, God can you explain why

Love don't love me
Is the only thing that seems to hold me
God can you explain why
Love don't love me
Is the only thing that seems to hold me
God can you explain why

I'll sacrifice my life, fuck all the dumb shit
'Cause being black and broke's getting redundant
My grow to be a world leader like X and King
If I can live a longer than Pac and BIG
What do river for us niggas run red, you could tell by the lives we live
If it changes it'll be God's prediction
So pain inflicted, like Jane's Addiction
Live right like Christians, but dance with the death
It's like calling stones a devil, the road is unlevel
Still I walk through the valleys of shadows of death
Gasping for air, breathe in my last breath
My daughter told me first words, my son walked his first steps
And all through life we anticipate death
And if pain is truly love, for my family I die
God can you explain why

Love don't love me
Is the only thing that seems to hold me
God can you explain why
Love don't love me
Is the only thing that seems to hold me
God can you explain why