JAY-Z - You Must Love Me lyrics

Throughout my life (uh huh uh huh uh)
No matter what I've done (right)
You've been merciful and your love endureth
(yeah) through all things (yeah)
For that I am eternally grateful

Since my date of birth bought
You nothing but hurt play those video games
Stole change from ya purse
Sat on the cold court bench 'til
I was arraigned in ya skirt
Saw the pain in ya face
Still you maintained a smirk
All you did was motivate me
"Don't let 'em hold you back"
What I do? I turned around
And I sold you crack
I was a bastard for that
Still I'm drowning in shame
Just remember one thing now:
You're not to blame
You was newly separated tryin'
To escape ya world
And through my thirst I didn't help
You I just made things worse
I hated me and everybody that created crack
Had me thinkin' the newest kicks
And the latest gat still haven't apologized
So please play this back
While I try to come to terms
With such a heinous act
You know in more than one
Way cocaine numbs the brain
All I did was think about
How the funds once came
Then I ran across this memory
And it stung the brain
How can you ever destroy the
Beauty from which one came
That's a savage, you're the reason
Why me and these beats make a marriage
Why I rhyme above average and I ain't shit
Glad you got yourself together
No thanks to me
Strong and beautiful the way thangs should be
You must love me

You must love me say that you love me
All I know say that you must love me
Ohh yeah

We used to fight every night
But I never would suffer just smile
My big brother's tryna make me tougher
As we grew fussing and fighting continued
As I plundered through ya stuff and
Snuck ya clothes to school
Got intense, real intense as we got older
Never believed it would lead to be
Poppin' one in your shoulder
Where my rings? Knew you had it
'cause you took too long as Mickey
Annie and the girl that bought it looked on
Huffin' and puffin' gun in my
Hand told you step outside
Hoping you said no but you hurt my pride
Made our way down the steps
Maybe you thought it was just a threat
Or maybe ya life was just that crazy
And you was beggin' for death
Try to justify this in my young mind
But the adrenaline and my ego hurt combined
Drove me berserk, saw the devil in your eyes
High off more than weed
Confused, I just closed my
Young eyes and squeezed (gunshot)
What a sound! Opened my eyes just in time
To see ya stumbling to the ground
Damn, what the fuck I done now?
Runnin' around in a circle
Thinking I'm assed out
Hot gun burnin' my waist
Ran straight to Jaz' house
Like a stranger damn I just shot my nigga
And ran off into the night as
If it was not my nigga
Left the scene, how could I go out that way?
Still you asked to see me in
The hospital the next day you must love me

What after all the wrong I've done
You must love me i know you must
You must love me

Everything in my power and within my frame
To protect you from this life and
Keep you away from the game
But you was one of the few
People that I can trust
And the fact of the matter I
Slang these pies for us
You put the pressure on me daily
Rarely would you let it go
Was a thousand and one times I
Had to tell you no but it was one of those
Days when nobody was around
And I needed emergency trip out of town
Searched my mental Rolodex for all
The numbers I know as you stared in my face
Asking me could you go
I agreed said send her
Everything'll go smooth
Just tell her what to do
And everything'll go through
Strapped her body with them thangs
As you boarded the plane
Couldn't explain the strange feeling that
I caught in the vein
I'm thinking why would I send you
When I knew it ain't right
I'm thinking what would make
You sacrifice ya life you must've love me

("You must love me" repeats in background)
After everything that I've done wrong
I know inside you must love me
I know that you love me
You showed me I know it i know
Say that you love me say that you love me
I know you must love me oh yes you do
Inside I know it you've always shown it
You love me yea yeah oh yeah
I know that you love me