Joe Budden - Love I'm Good lyrics

To my dear dearly departed
Shit's becomin' all that I feared
Here's where it started
Seems that nothing's as it appears
Swear it's retarded
No wonder I get speared by my peers
Yeah I'm a target
It used to take a nation of
Millions for niggas not to be
AmeriKKKa's Most gave America hope
Back when the music had a message in it
We was rebels against it
The best was intended to lessen the gimmicks
But now y'all made a mess of it
And somebody gotta address this shit
Rakim would never wear a dress and shit
I ain't a pessimist to say
I ain't impressed with it
Your hearing's bad, you think it's alive
Now that's the death in it
When it was all about bars


Wanted to weddin' it
Surround yourself with bullshit
You'll be liable to step in it
Came here with one objective
Gettin' it further
Now I'm watchin' my first love die
Witnessin' murder
When Common stopped lovin' ol' girl
What was he tellin' me? Cold world
Now she won't dig you without a melody
Love nerds
Used to be into niggas with felonies
We need a new president
Where the fuck is Eric B?
Or did my wordplay confuse her?
Now I see her with Young Thug and Future
Like what did you niggas do to her?
Now, my generalization is this generation
The imminent state of this gentrification
Desensitization
I call her, she's in Marvin's room
Everything is awkward now
She moved more to south
Deserted her New Yorker crowd
Met her with a cane, she changed
Prefer to walk it out
Stopped eatin' meat when she heard
I worked in a slaughterhouse
Now she's a new dame glued to the fame
She used to hate accessorizin'
Now she's wearin' two chains
Relationship too strained
I don't know who to blame
When I tell her, "You changed", she say
"Who would be the same"
She right cause this ain't the
Way we knew each other
Or do I face the fact that
Maybe we outgrew each other?
It took a while
But that's finally understood
She wouldn't change if she could
I swear if this is love, I'm good

Everything has changed
I can see it clear in fact
Starin' at these four walls
Angry that they're starin' back
Took a while, now it's finally understood
Would we change it if we could?
I swear if this is love, I'm good

Look, I can't get with you at all
Our issue is tall
You tied to every nigga now
That dribbles a ball did I miss a red flag?
You wasn't fickle before
I can't even ridicule y'all
That'd be a bitter resolve
Wanna talk about our history
I feel like everything you
Say is contradictory
Whenever you come visit me
I look at you and see remembrance, remnants
Plenty resentments
It's not you but there's resemblance
We diss each other all out of fun
Shit amuses me
You threaten every girl I'm with
That just confuses me
Say you want kids real soon
Now that's abuse to me
And I just write about it in song
You're like a muse to me
I wanna ask where you see
Yourself in five years
How you goin' about that
Like what's the verdict?
I wanna ask if you ever replay the past over
And if you do
When you finished is it worth it?
I wanna ask if we love each other so much
How do we cause each other so much pain?
Still in all in each others lives
We've remained without a claim
I know some'll call that clinically insane
How do we remedy the games?
Was once enemies and then
That energy refrained wasn't meant to be
The synergy had us mentally drained
Minimally sprained so relentlessly he aims
Despite when you said you never
Could depend on me again
Still we're here as none of
This had ever taken place
Are we checkin' to see if
Someone's takin' our place?
As we front like we're takin' up space
I think currently the current we
Is makin' our case
But for what? Would that just seal it again
Did it all hurt so much? Do we
Wanna feel it again? I doubt it
Took a while, still nothing's understood
Would we change it if we could?
I swear if this is love, I'm good

Everything has changed
I can see it clear in fact
Starin' at these four walls
Angry that they're starin' back
Took a while, now it's finally understood
Would we change it if we could?
I swear if this is love, I'm good

Look, I can see the pain in your eyes
I wanna fix it
But all your words are fuelin' my pride
So I'm dismissive
You think I wanna sit in this courtroom
Talkin' supervised
Scrutinized by suit and ties? You a lie
You could cry, the conditions of you and I
Can't escape it
Every lie she told you over the years
I'm face to face with
And now they manifested
You're overwhelmed and congested
But feelin' neglected, I gotta respect it
I can't explain to your so young brain
Since our first exchange you've
Been kept from me used against as weaponry
And as much as I hate her
I'd never downplay your mother like that
For you to judge her like that
Just a lesson later on that
You'll discover like that
We not alone in this process, no
It's others like that
But, you spew these sly remarks like
"Why are we here?
Like why are you near? Like why do you care
How is this fair?"
I gotta eat that, see you got a grudge
Lil' nigga we flesh and blood, lil' nigga
No ifs, ands or buts, lil' nigga
You can think your dad is nuts, lil' nigga
I'm talkin' to you cause you
Came out of my nuts, lil' nigga
That's my stance on the
Matter, I won't budge, lil' nigga
And I'll tell that to your
Mother and the judge, lil' nigga
At our next court date
You gon' see that it's true
Funny, my condescendin' ways
I kinda see 'em in you
Mannerisms when I'm annoyed
Yep I'm seein' that too
I'm smilin', admirin' genes
I kinda think that it's cute
I was you 20 years ago when pop popped up
But nothin' like you
Sad how life'll recycle a cycle
You missin' intel only a dad can give
Can't expect you to understand
This doesn't matter to a kid
And since our situation's not understood
I would fix it if I could
I swear if this is love, I'm good

Everything has changed
I can see it clear in fact
Starin' at these four walls
Angry that they're starin' back
Took a while, now it's finally understood
Would we change it if we could?
I swear if this is love, I'm good