Love Gone Wrong

You mad at the woman cuz she act like you Sexually free to f*ck who she attracted to You act like you don't care But you can't side the truth inside So weakly you choose to lie to yourself And slide on to the next tryin' to flex Like your mind not all on your ex And now you vexed Cuz you can't control her voice, her choice Her boisterous attitude Or moistures when she in the mood It's misogyny Honestly, I'm speakin' to myself In a not distant past, I was something else I wasn't conscious of my thought patterns I really believed I couldn't hurt a woman if she wasn't being battered I offered equal treatment to bring her nearer But I didn't love the person in the mirror Placing my self esteem somewhere between my wallet and my dick And half the time, my wallet wasn't holding shit This is a love gone wrong Love gone wrong This is a love gone wrong Love gone wrong I swore up and down that I loved women but truthfully What I loved was the things they would do for me Saw myself as God looking at the Earth A beautiful creation but I'd always come first From religion to politics, men are the leaders You never need to hear her Never need to see her Never recognize her Not ever in life Even in this song, she's just a poetic device A radical shift is necessary If I'ma commit to not treatin' women secondary I'ma have to do some diggin' way down the core Cuz in my mind, women are either madonnas or whores Your favorite rapper prob'ly doesn't think different Conscious brothers be the same as street niggas We inherit sexism from society But I'm responsible to get it from inside of me This is a love gone wrong Love gone wrong This is a love gone wrong Love gone wrong I tried to put myself in her shoes Nobody likes to feel used I didn't give a f*ck That I didn't mean to hurt her isn't worth a mention If I overstand that impact supercedes intention Contradiction in the shit I'm speakin' now But I can't correct my actions without understanding how I got to be so callous Sensitivity is a challenge Yeah, I open up at times but it's totally out of balance Empathy for me doesn't come naturally But if I practice I have it in high capacity I feel more comfortable in apathy Cuz being vulnerable was never depicted as what a man should be Not in my family Not in too many others My neighborhood was comprised of nothing but hard brothers For years I've been bull headed with thick skin I don't wanna be the way I've been This is a love gone wrong Love gone wrong This is a love gone wrong Love gone wrong Love gone wrong Love gone wrong This is a love gone wrong