Joey Bada$$, Russ, Black Thought, Danger Mouse, Dylan Cartlidge - Because lyrics

Because it's hard to find your love
I found it out
Because you better not stay
You better not stay
Because it's hard to find your love
I found it out
Because this love is so non-desirable, oh

I'm from where too many lives
Twenty-five years or fewer
Nothing we receive is brand new
It's just newer
While brothers drop down to their
Knees and make dua
Popsicle sticks race down the
Curb into the sewer
The next American hangman sketched in crayon
Gangland all a façade that you can spray on
Killin' birds with one stone is
What we stay on
Wingspan never too wide for you to prey on
The ways never cease to amaze or inspire
Illiterate, the signatures been
Forged in fire
Broken spirit, some assembly required
It confirmed the door of no return at Elmina
Screamin' into the ocean
For emotional support
We never won awards
We was wards of the court
Puttin' swords to umbilical cords
To cut 'em short
Translation: vacation is at a last resort

Because it's hard to find your love
I found it out
Because this love is so non-desirable, oh

We took shoestrings
Lemon drops and chips from the deli
Knocked 'em out the box with
Spinner tops and skelly
"Do it
You'll get to it" what Mr
Womack would tell me
I was locked
My celly read Niccolò Machiavelli
This inheritance was negative
Beverage is the devil's piss
State's evidence
Give us anything instead of this drama
In the mirror like Yayoi Kusama
Had me turnin' to Muhammad, to Buddha
To Dalai Lama
If I would snatch a shoulder
Bag from somebody mama
Am I cancerous? Can't discuss what
The short answer was
Hungriest ones take the money and run
Sometimes simultaneously taking one
Of your lungs
What I mean is
I've seen everything that's under the sun
Niggas below the poverty line
Live under the gun
We all schemin', savages ain't vegan
What the fuck is love?
Don't need a reason to die
We die just because

Because it's hard to find your love
I found it out
Because you better not stay
You better not stay
Because it's hard to find your love
I found it out
Because this love is so non-desirable, oh

I was on thirty-four cruisin' through Medina
I was just a Neo 'fore I had the nina
I had the snapback with the t-shirt
Practicin' my ollie
I could hardly get my feet up
Had to hit the staircase just
To roll the reefer
Uh
Now I'm smokin' big Cohibas out in
Costa Rica like pura vida
Havin' flashbacks of niggas gettin' clapped
At in front the cleaners
On 34th Street, until this day it haunts me
It's why I had to move raunchy
I know killers in Marcy
So please don't taunt me
I spent some summer times in Canarsie
Me and Quan gettin' stopped and
Frisked by Hutch and Starsky
They was lookin' for hard drugs an' armory
Mama told me not to let that shit bother me
Poppa said to move cautiously
So the streets would never father me
But you don't know that part of me

Because it's hard to find your love
I found it out
Because this love is so non-desirable, oh

My girl told me I should watch my tongue
My skin gets red too easy
She don't wanna change her
Name like Washington
Wonders where I got it from
My parents' marriage was a toxic one
Mm, oh well, I'm 'bout to cop a gun
Hope I got to use it
It'll help blow up the music
I know somethin' slightly off with me
Drama is therapeutic
Ego hates feeling futile
Sometimes I move without scruples
Like havin' Mrs. Perfect with me
And still chasin' approval
From other women, I'm a glutton
I can't run from who I become
Dad's around the corner
Haven't seen him in like three months
We don't speak much, I
Don't handle balance well
Got a fragile shell
My money split the king and queen up
Then the castle fell
The tension in the air is still crisp
Sometimes I wish this game was
Over like I'm Lil' Flip
(Flip)
Sometimes I'm wishing that my brain
Came with a kill switch
I don't vacation, dawg, I
Guilt trip, real shit
Yeah

Because it's hard to find your love
I found it out
Because you better not stay
You better not stay
Because it's hard to find your love
I found it out
Because this love is so non-desirable, oh