Because

[Chorus: Dylan Cartlidge] Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out Because you better not stay, you better not stay Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out Because this love is so non-desirable, oh [Verse 1: Black Thought] I'm from where too many lives twenty-five years or fewer Nothing we receive is brand new, it's just newer While brothers drop down to their knees and make du'a Popsicle sticks race down the curb into the sewer The next American hangman sketched in crayon Gangland all a façade that you can spray on Killin' birds with one stone is what we stay on Wingspan never too wide for you to prey on The ways never cease to amaze or inspire Illiterate, the signatures been forged in fire Broken spirit, some assembly required It confirmed the door of no return at Elmina Screamin' into the ocean for emotional support We never won awards, we was wards of the court Puttin' swords to umbilical cords to cut 'em short Translation: vacation is at a last resort [Chorus: Dylan Cartlidge] Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out Because this love is so non-desirable, oh [Verse 2: Black Thought] We took shoestrings, lemon drops and chips from the deli Knocked 'em out the box with spinner tops and skelly "Do it, you'll get to it," what Mr. Womack would tell me I was locked, my celly read Niccolò Machiavelli This inheritance was negative, beverage is the devil's piss State's evidence, give us anything instead of this drama In the mirror like Yayoi Kusama Had me turnin' to Muhammad, to Buddha, to Dalai Lama If I would snatch a shoulder bag from somebody mama Am I cancerous? Can't discuss what the short answer was Hungriest ones take the money and run Sometimes simultaneously taking one of your lungs What I mean is, I've seen everything that's under the sun Niggas below the poverty line live under the gun We all schemin', savages ain't vegan, what the fuck is love? Don't need a reason to die, we die just because [Chorus: Dylan Cartlidge & Joey Bada$$] Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out Because you better not stay, you better not stay Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out Because this love is so non-desirable, oh (Uh) [Verse 3: Joey Bada$$] I was on thirty-four cruisin' through Medina I was just a Neo 'fore I had the nina I had the snapback with the t-shirt Practicin' my ollie, I could hardly get my feet up Had to hit the staircase just to roll the reefer, uh Now I'm smokin' big Cohibas out in Costa Rica like pura vida Havin' flashbacks of niggas gettin' clapped at in front the cleaners On 34th Street, until this day it haunts me It's why I had to move raunchy I know killers in Marcy, so please don't taunt me I spent some summer times in Canarsie Me and Quan gettin' stopped and frisked by Hutch and Starsky They was lookin' for hard drugs an' armory Mama told me not to let that shit bother me Poppa said to move cautiously So the streets would never father me But you don't know that part of me [Chorus: Dylan Cartlidge & Russ] Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out Because this love is so non-desirable, oh (Yeah) [Verse 4: Russ] My girl told me I should watch my tongue My skin gets red too easy, she don't wanna change her name like Washington Wonders where I got it from, my parents' marriage was a toxic one Mm, oh well, I'm 'bout to cop a gun Hope I got to use it, it'll help blow up the music I know somethin' slightly off with me, drama is therapeutic Ego hates feeling futile, sometimes I move without scruples Like havin' Mrs. Perfect with me and still chasin' approval From other women, I'm a glutton, I can't run from who I become Dad's around the corner, haven't seen him in like three months We don't speak much, I don't handle balance well, got a fragile shell My money split the king and queen up, then the castle fell The tension in the air is still crisp Sometimes I wish this game was over like I'm Lil' Flip (Flip) Sometimes I'm wishing that my brain came with a kill switch I don't vacation, dawg, I guilt trip, real shit, yeah [Chorus: Dylan Cartlidge] Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out Because you better not stay, you better not stay Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out Because this love is so non-desirable, oh