Fight for Love

I feel comfortable in front of this mic, you see me
'Cause I'm just talking 'bout life
I wonder why people be uncomfortable, you know

Look
I'm a lover, not a fighter
But we fight for love
Can't fall victim to the trauma
Had to rise above
Ain't no fear where we going
So we taking chances, Aye
Don't ask questions

Look
Just need a moment to myself
To regroup and recenter
'Cause every time they hit my phone
They ain't offering dinner
It gets so hard to replenish
When you known for your giving
Even if new boundaries cemented
They get to testing the limits
I gotta stop treating people like I owe 'em sumn'
You hearing hisses in the grass
You need to mow or sumn'
Politics the reason
Why the mirror's filled with smoke for nothing
Visualize me riding presidential
In a chauffeured sumn'
Curtains pull up
Like a skin-tight dress
On a freaky broad
I speak it raw and
Leave 'em in the same word
Just delete the R
Accusations 'bout my past like
I ain't have to beat the odds
Abuse the chance for them to give me credit
I'ma be the charge
I love my home town
'Cause it produced my drive and vision
But yet and still
Won't ever let it be my ceiling
Don't need a deal
And no cosign is worth the feeling
Of being self made
When all the odds is stacked against you

I'm a lover, not a fighter
But we fight for love
Can't fall victim to the trauma
Had to rise above
Ain't no fear where we going
So we taking chances
Don't ask questions
You can't take the answers
I'm a lover, not a fighter
But we fight for love
Can't fall victim to the trauma
Had to rise above
Ain't no fear where we going
So we taking chances
Where the pretty women make advances

When I look inside my mirror
All I see is potential
But paranoia got the best of me
I question my kinfolk
Youngin' swimming with the sharks
I was the best of the minnows
But ever since I got my weight up
Wondering where them friends go
I been talked about, broken
Disregarded and forgotten
Instead of being tired and bitter
I exhausted all my options
Re-framing my optics
My confidence is major
Now I see everything working in my favor baby
And my main chick is foreign
She got flavors baby
I ain't talking Eurocentric
She a Jamaican baby
No my standard ain't from a place of self hate
Figure the blacker the berry
Gone taste like Welch Grape
They say love conquers all
But the problems never vanish
Gotta put the work in
Even when there ain't no cameras
With your back against the wall
Your crown should never fall
Put your hands up and show em what your stance is

I'm a lover, not a fighter
But we fight for love
Can't fall victim to the trauma
Had to rise above
Ain't no fear where we going
So we taking chances
Don't ask questions
You can't take the answers
I'm a lover, not a fighter
But we fight for love
Can't fall victim to the trauma
Had to rise above
Ain't no fear where we going
So we taking chances
Where the pretty women make advances