[Hook: Dwele, (T3)]
Real love (So right, y'all)
True love (It feel good, don't it?)
Tainted love (So good, girl) – tainted love
Real love (So... say...) – real love
True love (So right, baby)
Tainted love
Real love (Fo' sho'... fo' sho'...)
True love
Real love
[Verse 1: T3]
Think of her, think of me
Think about us, sense an intimacy
I'm trying to strum you like guitars in this beat
We can sit around and she'll keep the blahzays freaked
Plus – you got a man, but he ain't quite me
The type of man that try to give you what you need
And he wanna know where you are, where you be,
Where you going, where you stay, where you subject to be
Damn – if I was him, I wouldn't even need
I would trust you when you say that you are where you be
Say – he the type of nigga that's hella cheap,
Take his girl on a date and they go to Mickey D's
See – I'm the type that try to stab in a jeep,
Try to take you out to see things and occasionally creep
Yeah, your man is doing things I can't really see,
Don't sound too good, it sound tainted to me
[Hook: Dwele, (T3)]
Real love (So right, y'all)
True love (It feel good, don't it?)
Tainted love (So good, girl) – tainted love
Real love (So... say...) – real love
True love (So right, baby)
Tainted love
Real love (Fo' sho'... fo' sho'...)
True love
Real love
[Verse 2: Baatin]
How many hits does it take for a record to blow?
I mean, exactly how many licks it took for my hoes
Spending your cash flow, 'cause she was so out cold
Scandalous, 'cause she lust for the scandal
Too much chick for that ass, she couldn't handle that
Well, it's the same tainted love in the music business
People, they lose their brain just to get up in this
"Let's be a star for a day...!" "Everything in life is just okay...!"
People say things they don't really wanna say
Hey, but it's okay, 'cause you're a star for the day!
People'll smile at you when they really wanna frown
Well now, that's just the way tainted folk get down
Just keep it real and you will see
When the situation is tainted, love is always free
Love is always free (Love is always free)
[Hook: Dwele, (eLZhi)]
Real love
True love
Tainted love
Real love
True love
Tainted love
Real love (Yeah... SV!)
True love (Tainted love – wanna know! Check it out...)
[Verse 3: eLZhi]
You say you love me, but is it really real?
Would you – fix me green tea if I'm feeling ill?
Could you – give me a back rub to sooth after a long day?
Dinner by candlelight, but you're the main entrée?
And if so, I'd do the same, with other treats to give you
Trailing rose pedals from your door to beneath your pillow
With a bucket of champagne on your night stand
Experience what some women won't in they lifespan
I'm sayin'
[Outro: Dwele, (T3)]
Real love – real
Everybody wants some love – real
Someone to trust in you – for real
Everybody needs love that's – real
I would never want nothing – tainted
Wait a minute – would you feel
Faded if your loving was tainted? True
Oh, I know true love is hard to find,
Just let it find you – for real
If you found love, then keep it real
Keep love from being tainted (Being tainted)
Oooh, then you'll – be – alright
(Just sit y'all, Dwele G, dawg – on more time, y'all, come on)
Oooh, then you'll – be – alright