You Must Love Me

[00:04.53] Throughout my life (uh huh uh huh uh)
[00:07.51] No matter what I've done (right)
[00:10.43] You've been merciful and your love endureth (yeah)
[00:15.51] Through all things (yeah)
[00:18.62] For that, I am eternally grateful
[00:22.13] Since my date of birth bought you nothing but hurt
[00:25.34] Play those video games, stole change from ya purse
[00:28.34] Sat on the cold court bench 'til I was arraigned in ya skirt
[00:31.31] Saw the pain in ya face, still you maintained a smirk
[00:34.47] All you did was motivate me, "Don't let 'em hold you back"
[00:37.38] What I do? I turned around and I sold you crack
[00:40.66] I was a bastard for that, still I'm drowning in shame
[00:43.70] Just remember one thing now, you're not to blame
[00:46.77] You was newly separated tryin' to escape ya world
[00:49.76] And through my thirst, I didn't help you, I just made things worse
[00:52.88] I hated me and everybody that created crack
[00:55.94] Had me thinkin' the newest kicks and the latest gat
[00:59.03] Still haven't apologized, so please play this back
[01:02.12] While I try to come to terms with such a heinous act
[01:05.28] You know in more than one way cocaine numbs the brain
[01:08.27] All I did was think about how the funds once came
[01:11.34] Then I ran across this memory and it stung the brain
[01:14.47] How can you ever destroy the beauty from which one came
[01:17.56] That's a savage, you're the reason
[01:19.25] Why me and these beats make a marriage
[01:20.81] Why I rhyme above average and I ain't shit
[01:23.76] Glad you got yourself together, no thanks to me
[01:26.72] Strong and beautiful the way thangs should be
[01:29.67] You must love me
[01:30.93] Say that you love me (you must love me)
[01:36.38] All I know say that you must love me (you must love me)
[01:43.32] Ohh yeah
[01:48.35] We used to fight every night but I never would suffer
[01:51.42] Just smile, my big brother's tryna make me tougher
[01:54.51] As we grew fussing and fighting continued
[01:57.67] As I plundered through ya stuff and snuck ya clothes to school
[02:00.77] Got intense, real intense as we got older
[02:03.85] Never believed it would lead to be poppin' one in your shoulder
[02:06.81] Where my rings? Knew you had it 'cause you took too long
[02:09.88] As Mickey, Annie and the girl that bought it looked on
[02:12.92] Huffin' and puffin', gun in my hand, told you step outside
[02:16.20] Hoping you said no but you hurt my pride
[02:19.23] Made our way down the steps
[02:20.93] Maybe you thought it was just a threat
[02:22.58] Or maybe ya life was just that crazy
[02:23.10] And you was beggin' for death
[02:25.31] Try to justify this in my young mind
[02:27.82] But the adrenaline and my ego hurt combined
[02:30.72] Drove me berserk, saw the devil in your eyes
[02:33.22] High off more than weed
[02:34.80] Confused, I just closed my young eyes and squeezed
[02:38.19] What a sound! Opened my eyes just in time
[02:40.16] To see ya stumbling to the ground
[02:41.67] Damn, what the fuck I done now?
[02:43.95] Runnin' around in a circle thinking I'm assed out
[02:46.91] Hot gun burnin' my waist, ran straight to Jaz' house
[02:50.27] Like a stranger, damn I just shot my nigga
[02:53.11] And ran off into the night as if it was not my nigga
[02:56.33] Left the scene, how could I go out that way?
[02:59.34] Still you asked to see me in the hospital the next day
[03:02.34] You must love me
[03:03.91] What after all the wrong I've done (you must love me)
[03:09.95] I know you must (you must love me)
[03:15.09] Everything in my power and within my frame
[03:17.84] To protect you from this life and keep you away from the game
[03:20.97] But you was one of the few people that I can trust
[03:23.95] And the fact of the matter, I slang these pies for us
[03:27.09] You put the pressure on me daily, rarely would you let it go
[03:30.33] Was a thousand and one times I had to tell you no
[03:33.36] But it was one of those days when nobody was around
[03:36.47] And I needed emergency trip out of town
[03:39.56] Searched my mental Rolodex for all the numbers I know
[03:42.57] As you stared in my face asking me could you go
[03:45.71] I agreed, said, "Send her, everything'll go smooth
[03:48.97] Just tell her what to do and everything'll go through"
[03:51.93] Strapped her body with them thangs as you boarded the plane
[03:55.00] Couldn't explain the strange feeling that I caught in the vein
[03:57.97] I'm thinking, why would I send you when I knew it ain't right?
[04:01.06] I'm thinking, what would make you sacrifice ya life?
[04:03.93] You must've love me
[04:06.61] After everything that I've done wrong (you must love me)
[04:12.15] I know inside you must love me (you must love me)
[04:21.11] (You must love me)
[04:27.38] (You must love me)
[04:32.01] I know that you love me (you must love me)
[04:42.56] You showed me I know it (you must love me)
[04:49.29] I know (you must love me)
[04:55.79] Say that you love me
[04:57.58] Say that you love me (you must love me)
[05:02.31] I know you must love me (you must love me)
[05:10.24] (You must love me)
[05:14.42] Oh yes, you do (you must love me)
[05:18.52] Inside I know it
[05:21.28] You've always shown it (you must love me)
[05:24.71] You love me, yeah-yeah
[05:27.45] Oh yeah (you must love me)
[05:30.46] I know that you love me
[05:35.25] (You must love me)
[05:41.15] (You must love me)
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