Love For You - Joe Budden, Emanny

Just gotta get these thoughts off real quick

See I’m a thinker, it’s like thinking shit

It’s when you got.

You sittin' there reflectin', thinkin' shit

I peep it though

Look, you liked me better before you knew my history

Before you knew who I was

That’s when reachin' our potential felt likely

Nobody like me

Besides see if I stop bein' who I am

I’m straight to it, who I might be

But you gotta look inside each song

That’s where I proved it was really in sight all along

Bear it all so the privacy gone

Grab the pen, sit down and write these wrongs

Just how I right these wrongs, but look

You liked me better when I spoke usin' censorship

Before you knew I was really insensitive

That was back when it was you and me

Then curiosity killed you, you had to Google me

Now I won’t call the headlines a liar

Some are true and some are false, that’s for y’all to decipher

But look, on rare occasions some of what they say’ll bother me

I liked it better when the 'Net was still a novelty

'Cause now people who ain’t found themselves

Get an outlet, yet don’t know how they sound themselves

They like me better when I’m silent and don’t have an opinion

Pretendin' to blend in like I’m a minion

Say if Joe keep talkin' that shit, he’ll get him shot

But if rappers can’t tie my shoes, how can I not?

Thought I had my city’s support, I couldn’t believe

Jersey City liked me better when I couldn’t leave

I take it back, that ain’t set in stone

They more so had weapons drawn 'cause I left alone

I liked it better when I had nothin' to lose

The days when I felt like I had somethin' to prove

Shit, even for me that’s unusual

If you don’t give a fuck then who you gotta prove it to?

Just the world that I was born in

You gotta learn to form wins against the storm wind

They like me better when I fuck and never call again

Without it, they don’t know what type of box I belong up in

They like me better without reality television

Guess they didn’t need to witness the hell I was livin'

In my shoes, you too would seal a fate

Poppin' 20 pills a day, somebody gon' feel a way

Look, uh, and so these hoes just to pass time

After the past time, they don’t even pass my mind

You liked me better way before you got lied to

But that don’t really matter when you want me inside you

Your friends sayin' leave, they don’t know that you tried to

You can’t speak to them, I’m the nigga you cry to

I liked it better when nobody ever heard of me

'Fore pop had to get that knee surgery

Guess that affected his bladder

So when Jackie called me nothin' else really mattered

Was scared, sounded frantic, I ain’t want no parts of that

Said the ambulance came, might be a heart attack

Was leavin' work nearly cryin' on the phone

I’m in rush hour traffic, just seen you dyin' alone

Look, I just pictured all the places that we never went

All the texts that were never sent

All the words we never spoke

Time we never shared, rewind so we can repair

Such an inspiration, all the holes that you dug through

Then you got released, God was watchin' above you

I’m thinkin' you healin', I don’t wanna disrupt you

So I’m right back to never tellin' you that I love you

And I don’t wanna act that way

If I take somethin' for granted, I don’t wanna give it back that way

Forreal, that’s how shit get lost, let me chill

I like it better when I’m not talkin' over my thoughts, now listen

I’ve done been down, been down, it’s all for you

How you feelin' out there?

And I don’t wanna get in your way

How everybody doin', alright?

Get you somethin' to drink

And I don’t wanna get in your way

Get you somethin' to smoke, get you somethin' to light up

Whatever your vice is, we here though

Said this love is all for you

That shit don’t be for everybody, man

Said this love is all for you

Now the singers wanna rap, the rappers wanna sing

Personally I liked it better back when rappin' was a thing

'Cause now if you wanna get the high notes

When that hook come, you gotta hit the high notes

The label wanna sell singles

I’m sellin' a story and that’ll just taint the message

Bad marriage, we ain’t got the same objective

Still I’m here cause real niggas in the game respect it

Look, they like it better when I let 'em live rent free

I never knew that once it stopped we’d be enemies

And though I come off as heartless, nigga

In spite of yourself, got love for you regardless, nigga

Now listen, I liked you better when you wasn’t in the spotlight

Was too addicted to it, said some shit was not right

So when you work so much I couldn’t complain

'Til I learnt she was gateway escapin' from the pain

The strippers talk to me like I’m their therapist

That scares the good girls away, don’t know the hell I get

Whatever thoughts you contrive, I can’t help you with

But you’ve been tossin' it for a year and I derail the shit

I’m self made, I don’t do what I’m told

The type that needs free reign, to be out of control

Forreal, 'cause when that’s gone I’m lost, let me chill

I like it better when I’m not talkin' over my thoughts, word

I’ve done been down, been down, it’s all for you

Y’all don’t understand me

I don’t think they get it though

And I don’t wanna get in your way

Don’t know why you don’t apply like, our experiences and shit

And I don’t wanna get in your way

To like, my experiences with other people

Said this love is all for you, this love is all for you, ooh

Said this love is all for you