Around

You were there through ups and downs
Now you're nowhere to be found
Gave your love to all these clowns
Now you don't want me around

You were there through ups and downs
Now you're nowhere to be found
Spread your love all over town
Now you don't want me around

I met her back in '96
I was only 9, but she's been on my mind since
Thought she was only mine, didn't read the fine print
She did the same thing to every guy since
In '04, she introduced me to the homie Rob
I shoulda listened to the brodies when they told me stop
It's gonna hurt; you know she'll leave you lonely, watch
But she told me lovin' her was my only job
Now every guy that she dates' bad news
She like the kind with the face tattoos
Skinny jeans and the My Little Pony hair
Used to be thugs, now it's punks with the phony flair
She did me cold, sorta like a polar bear
If she loves me anymore, I don't know or care
I ain't tryin' to go to war like Tony Blair
But it's time to even the score, it's only fair

You were there through ups and downs
Now you're nowhere to be found
Gave your love to all these clowns
Now you don't want me around

You were there through ups and downs
Now you're nowhere to be found
Spread your love all over town
Now you don't want me around

I was Ready to Die
Survival of the Fittest, would I ever survive?
Revived, she gave me Life After Death
Asked for One More Chance, she lied and she said
It's All Eyez on Me, but all I could see
Was Me Against the World, I mean is it really me
Who gets the girl? I had Reasonable Doubt
She said she had some things she could teach me about
She only like Bad Boys, she said it was no Biggie
I asked how Many Men and was told 50
And as it turns out, she underplayed it
I guess I Get Around was an understatement
Introduced me to the Chronic, spent some summers waitin'
To Detox, I guess I'm just another patient
100 Miles and Running, my Reebok's barely touchin' pavement
But was I the hunted or the ones that's chasing?

You were there through ups and downs
Now you're nowhere to be found
Gave your love to all these clowns
Now you don't want me around

You were there through ups and downs
Now you're nowhere to be found
Spread your love all over town
Now you don't want me around

I am not a hero, no red cape
We were together for two decades
But I left her to get my head straight
'Cuz messin' with her don't get the rent paid
My friends say that I'm Dead Wrong
But we picked up where we left off
It's my prerogative to get this hopeless problem fixed
But let's be honest, it's nothin' but broken promises
Why'd I think this time would be different?
Why'd I waste my time with this sickness?
She'll betray you and lie without flinchin'
She'll put a blade in your spine with a quickness
I guess some things never change, huh?
Off and on, make up to break up
She was stringin' me along from day one
Singin' me a song that I made up

You were there through ups and downs
Now you're nowhere to be found
Gave your love to all these clowns
Now you don't want me around

You were there through ups and downs
Now you're nowhere to be found
Spread your love all over town
Now you don't want me around

I dedicated my life
My days and my nights
My pain and my strife
Just to make her my wife

And she told me to get lost
Told me to kick rocks
Exit through the gift shop
If you haven't figured out, her name's hip-hop