SHABAAM SAHDEEQ - Can't Be Together lyrics

[Verse 1]

I thought we had a "Love Jones" like Lorenz Tate and Nia Long

But I was quite wrong, it started out sweet and got spoiled

It's funny how this whole shit boiled down

I woulda never macked to you, if I knew, what I knew now

A straight witch with curvacious hips, the sex good attitute foul

I shoulda known then - but I seen something in your eyes

And the challenge of taming that ass had me open wide

My mans told me that I shouldn't sweat you

'Cause of the way that I met you, it was a conflict of interest

And you were nineteen, very inmature in the brain

And I was already past that stage; years ago

But I was walking through the course with a blindfold

Realistically should've known that you was just a scandalous hoe

Scheme on your daughter Mrs. Estée Lauder

See a very hot dish, I had to put in my order

And maybe I could get a belly full

I got pull like little kids on mom's sweater

But it all turned out to be a big fiasco indeed

Now she playing lots of games with my seed, what could it be?

[Chorus]

How can I say that I'm sorry

When I still got so much pain in my heart

Said I'd be there for you and you there for me

But my lovin' is what ripped us apart

Now we can't be together

[Verse 2]

Stressed out, most times brings my best out

Overdue on the rent 'bout to get kicked out

Hit the streets hard, tryin' to build up some scraps

Fell on my face hard, now I gotta start from scratch

I know I got it; make plans switch up moves

I'm a capricorn, never will you see me lose

I gotta bigger things on my mind than chicks and weed

The future of my seed and my team on my bean and it seems

I gotta work harder for mine

While niggaz get lucky and get on first time

Shine quick, die fast, not built to last

I'm first class, straight up y'all albums trash

Court dates got me screwfaced, drive me to drink

I gotta show up, or they gon' throw me straight in the clink

I wash my face in the sink, sit down to think

Flood the page with ink, imagine my daughter in all pink

High with my face to the sky, exhale the fumes

Eyes glassed on to a Marvin Gaye tune

And the friends that I thought was friends left me in the cold

Swim around in circles like I'm in a fish bowl

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]

The realest chick I ever met stayed on set

When I was soaking wet and deep in debt

She was my warmth in the cold

My shelter in the storm, my rose in hell

The last verse to my greatest tale

And she held me down through the segment

Even though I went and got this other chick pregnant

She was the one I shoulda been faithful to, my faith's in you

Now it's us two as long as it lasts

The vision of my daughter's mom shattered like glass

'Cause I realized that wasn't love, that was just ass

How could it last - and moms told me it'd be days like this

All my love for my wife yo I'll seal with a kiss

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