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I Been

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I Been

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I've been smokin' Purple Haze

Ooh, to forget about you

I've been smokin' Purple Haze

Ooh, to forget about you

And I try, and I try, and I try, and I try, I try (ohh)

But I'm havin' the worst luck on Tinder, ooh

Why'd you have to be a big pretender

I try, and I try, and I try, I try, I try (ohh)

To give you something good, 'cause I know you would

Give it to me, too

I've been smokin' Purple Haze

Ooh, to forget about you

I've been smokin' Purple Haze

Ooh, to forget about you

But you lie, and you lie, and you lie, and you lie, you lie (oh)

It's the forty-seventh time that I've changed my number

Should call you Mannie Fresh 'cause you's the number one stunta

You lie, and you lie, and you lie, and you lie, you lie (oh)

I gave you something good, 'cause I know you would

Give it to me, too

Don't date these niggas 'til you're forty-three

A heartbreak gonna creep on after me

I try to cover up what I feel inside

You hurt me so deep and

You know, life is too short to be blockin' your blessings like that

To be blockin' potential blessings, like

Yeah, you may never get married again

You may never find the love of your life again

But

Hey, that's life

And please don't be in a situation

Where that person's tearing you down mentally, emotionally, physically

We've heard it a million times, I think emotional abuse

Is way worse than physical, sometimes

'Cause that just fucks up your whole mind

You could develop whole disorders like that

Whole disorders

You guys tell me why this old nigga from my past hit me up, talkin' bout somethin'

Is your name Courtney? Did you go to Poplar Tree?

In the first, second, and third grade? And you had like a light skin sister?

And you, um, you had a crush on me?

I was like

Yeah, that sounds like me

And my thing is, like, nigga, like, you feelin' yourself

You're feelin' yourself a little too hard, talkin' 'bout

You had a crush on me

Nigga, yes, at like, fucking seven

Relax, relax

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