Love's Not

Verse 1

Love. What is it? A solid or a liquid?

The question resonates from inner space to outer limits

Outer space to inner city dwellers timid, not committed

Love just isn't built on child support and weekend visits

You kill it like strychnine when you treat it like a cancer

You don't feel it so you spend time seek pleasure, not the answer

In clubs peeping dancers in a jacked-up type of manner

Stuffing g-strings with dollars that should buy your baby's Pampers

Love's not waking up with different women every morning

Love's not beating her down at nine months, with child forming

Love's not leaving your wife and your seed with no warning

Love's not, and when it's raining its pouring

Scoring no points you smoke joints, and toke your life away

You might have another year or two but you really die today

Display respect for yourself, or you can’t love nobody else

The hand you're dealt requires action, not just something you felt

Chorus:

I know what love is and it just don't stop

but I can explain it better when I say what love's not.

Yeah I know what love is, and it just don't stop

But I explain it better when I can say what love's not.

Verse 2

A house divided against itself is prone to utter desolation

So for this generation on the brink of extermination

I pour out a libation, a lyrical libation

In observation of the annihilation of the moral foundation

The desperation of the situation was clearly foretold

That in these last days the love of many would grow stone cold

And if hell is without love

Then all hell has broke loose in this culture

Feel the negativity circling overhead like a vulture?

The inverted priority of the majority, squander the sacred

To give what's profane seniority

And incredibly we fail to see collectively

The reasons why things fall apart like leprosy

Passion is the fashion taboos are taboo

Do you see through this voodoo

Cause it stinks like doodoo

Yo it's sad but too true how many don't have a clue

To the fact we'll be judged for all we think say and do

From east to west coast and all areas in between

Real love is like a ghost -- talked about but rarely seen

Except on TV screens where they flash these caricatures

That on the down low are meant to influence our characters

But love is not love if it's manufactured for the moment

That makes it more than the physical between a man and a woman

Wisdom is justified by her children in the end

And real love is being willing to lay down your life for a friend

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Verse 3

Love's not caught in mug shots or seen in drug spots

Love's not sex or who you do next Love's not

Road rage, porno pages in the eyes of a racist

Loves not whoring and love's not abortion

Of course then love doesn’t bomb clinics to make it finish

Love's not hate and love's not a cynic

Love's not seen on Jerry Springer or expressed by middle finger

And love is rarely captured in the words of any singer

Love's not domestic violence saying shut up or be silent

And love's not represented in the way of the police sirens

Abandoned children in abandon buildings

Random killings, love's not slow to help you, love is ready and willing

Love is patient and kind, love is sight for the blind

Love was borne before the morning, love's transforming your mind

Love is body and blood, bread and wine, remember the time

Love is God divine, crucified for mankind

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