You Must Love Me - Jay-Z

Since my date of birth

Bought you nothing but hurt

Play those video games

Stole change from ya purse

Sat on the cold court bench

'til I was arraigned in ya skirt

Saw the pain in ya face

Through you maintained a smirk

All you did was motivate me

Don’t let 'em hold you back

What I do I turned around

And I sold you crack

I was a bastard for that

Still I’m drowning in shame

Just remember one thing now

You’re not to blame

You was newly seperated

Tryin' to escape ya world

And through my thirst

I didn’t help you

I just made things worse

I hated me and everybody

That created crack

Had me thinkin'

The newest kicks and the latest gat

Still haven’t apologized

So please play this back

While I try to come to terms

With such a heinous act

You know in more than one way

Cocaine numbs the brain

All I did was think about

How the funds once came

Then I ran across this memory

And it stung the brain

How can you ever destroy the beauty

From which one came

That’s a savage you’re the reason

Why me and these beats make a marriage

Why I rhyme above average and

I ain’t shit

Glad you got yourself together

No thanks to me

Strong and beautiful the way thangs should be

You must love me

Chorus (K. Price) (You must love me repeats in background)

Say that you love me