Love I'm Good Lyrics - Joe Budden

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've 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 oh 

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 I dispair?" 

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 twenty 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