The Cycle

Her last boyfriend was a girlfriend

Dude before that sent her through a whirlwind

Hurt her so bad, made her so sick

She was willing to give up on…

[Hook]

Her last boyfriend was a girlfriend

Dude before that sent her through a whirlwind

Hurt her so bad, made her so sick

She was willing to give up on…

The love story she knew so well

It was a tale her mom used to tell

Never saw her mom love a man

Thought it wasn’t part of her plan

But the cycle can't continue (don't give up on love)

The cycle can't continue (don't give up on love)

[Verse 1]

She wants to love, but she doesn't know how

That is what she said

That just blew my head

She told me I should go

Like I did before

But deep in her eyes

I could not ignore

That she saw in me

The king that I could be

And that she was a queen

Just her crown was scratched and dinged

[Hook]

[Verse 2]

She's hard to hold

But I'm holding her long

Love her like a song

That my heart beat's drumming on

She's just waiting on

Something to go wrong

But everyday I can say we'll be fine

We will have our ups and downs (yes we will)

I'll still stick around (yes I will)

Right here to work it out (what's the deal?)

That's what love's about, girl

[Hook]

[Verse 3: Pharoahe Monch]

Thinkin' I'm psycho, for thinkin her cycle can't continue

And perhaps she, from a female's perspective

Can relate more intricately with what you been through

Empathize with your menstrual cycle

But the cycle can't continue

Like a bike chain pops and a train stops

The brain opts out the cycle to evolve

When the rain stops we watch the pain dissolve

Never letting it continue to the next

Generation of women that's confusing love with sex

Generation of men courting women with a text

Social network and sexual pics

She was willing to give up on...

But if I am him, and he is me then

Yes it's true I deal with fear

I can't compete, a hemisphere

I'm incomplete unless you're near

You're like 180 degrees

Of sunshine, oxygen, and trees

And the world is yours

The universe is mine

In 360 degrees recombine

With your last boyfriend