On Love (Interlude by Ms. Lauryn Hill) - Machel Montano & Ms. Lauryn Hill

My world it moves so fast today The past it seems so far away And life squeezes, so tightly that I can't breathe And every time I've tried to be What someone else thought of me So caught up I wasn't able to achieve But deep in my heart The answer, it was in me And I made up my mind To define my own destiny Oh, no I, I look at my environment And wonder where the fire went What happened to everything we used to be? I hear so many cry for help Searching outside of themselves Now I know that His strength is within me And deep in my heart The answer, it was in me And I made up my mind To define my own destiny And deep in my heart Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh Ah-ah-ah No, no, no No, no, no And deep in my heart The answer, it was in me And I made up my mind To define my own destiny

We're all in this together You're my only hope And it's too divided, too deep to understand But if we don't do it, tell me, who will? Oh, we always say these words that don't mean too much I wonder, where is the love? It's curious The fear still holding us down One day, will we look up? Y'all know what this is You got a right to your own opinion But when it comes to the world we live in Isn't it the time that we start rebuilding? All of the things that are made so they crumble (Wе all) tend to forget that (Wе all) cease to exist and (Wе all) live for ourselves If nobody bothers to find a solution If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't We won't ever learn to save the day, whoa, oh If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't We won't ever learn to save the day We're all in this together You're my only hope And it's too divided, too deep to understand But if we don't do it, tell me, who will? Yeah Always say these words that don't mean too much I won't die, where is the love? It's the cure, yeah The fear still holding us back One day, will we look up? It's up to us If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't We won't ever learn to save the day, whoa, oh (To save the day, to save the day) If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't (Will we) We won't ever learn to save the day, whoa, oh (Ever learn, no) La-la-la, la, la, la Whoa, laaaa Whoa, la Laaa If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't We won't ever learn to save the day, whoa, oh If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't We won't ever learn to save the day, whoa, oh (We will have to learn to save the day) If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't We won't ever learn to save the day We gon' learn, we gon' learn Said we gonna learn

(Hit-Boy) One city, one country, one state Some place to be nobody Some place to be Some place you wouldn't know probably Yeah, yeah If Chappelle moved to Ghana to find his peace then I'm rolling Where the service always roaming, I'm packing my bags and going It's a challenge in that, it's a balancing act Visit beautiful places that's more out here than the trap Houses in Long Island, they always found 'em House in the South, a nigga barely got out Sunny L.A., remember calls with Dr. Dre He told me, "Don't let the palm trees fool you, nigga, be safe" Me and my higher self, we often would speak Somehow we lost the connection, might meet at Joshua Tree And it's been bothering me, too many wavy women Gotta log outta IG, can't be my age DM'ing (haha) No kidding, it's hard to move like a civilian I write the truth 'cause I live it, not like you musical niggas We did it big and they bigots, they'd rather shoot than write tickets What it feel like to go get it? What it feel like to go missing? In one city, one country, one state Some place to be nobody Some place to be Some place you wouldn't know probably Some place to be nobody My dawg bought a plane, said, "Let's go to Paris" That's where baguettes are from, French bread that's long and narrow I like the other definition, rectangular carats The concept of this song is rather esoteric This girl said in Grenada we should go get married Broke the meaning down of the Virgin Mary And you got your own place, my favorite part of the night When you text me that you made it home safe (I'm home) I'm contemplating at the home base How I'm used to breakfast in the ghetto sipping OJ That's a picture right there, a moment in time Before anybody wanted a photo of mine Before the internet, energy and social decline Destroyed the vibe, fooling us with the headlines (Keeping us blind) vultures eat you alive (Take heed to the signs) wishing I'd find One city, one country, one state Some place to be nobody Some place to be Some place you wouldn't know probably Some place to be nobody (life) All my time has been focused on my freedom now Why would I join 'em when I know that I can beat 'em now? They put their words on me, and they can eat 'em now That's probably why they keep on telling me I'm needed now They tried to box me out while taking what they want from me I spent too many years living too uncomfortably Making room for people who didn't like the labor Or wanted the spoils, greedy, selfish behavior Now let me give it to you balanced and with clarity I don't need to turn myself into a parody I don't, I don't do the shit you do for popularity They clearly didn't understand when I said I get out apparently My awareness like Keanu in The Matrix I'm saving souls and y'all complaining 'bout my lateness Now it's illegal for someone to walk in greatness They want the same sh-, they want the same sh-, but they don't take risks Now the world will get to see its own reflection And the anointed can pursue their own direction And if you're wrong, and you're too proud to hear correction Walk into the hole you dug yourself, fuck a projection See me in my freedom taking all my land back They sent a lot against me, thinking I'd just stand back I got my legs beneath me, I got my hands back A lot of people sabotaged, they couldn't stand that I turned the other cheek, I took blow after blow There's so much crisis in the world 'cause you reap what you sow When you keep what you know is meant for someone else The ditch you dig for them, you might just end up in yourself I'm in the secret place, I keep a sacred space They keep showing their hands, but keep hiding their face If I'm a messenger, you block me then you block the message So aggressive, the world you made is what you're left with Pride and ego over love and truth is f- reckless Y'all niggas got a death wish, the stupid leaves me breathless Some place to be, yeah Ain't ducking nothing Just might have to build my own city Where y'all need a real nigga passport to enter Ms. Hill, we ain't going nowhere They gon' have to deal with us Make 'em uncomfortable, hahaha, yeah

We got love Love, love You better believe it We got love Love, love You better believe it I got house in the carriage, yeah I got black love in marriage, yeah They gon' say you can't have it but I'm like, "Don't kill the messenger" We gon' break the stigma up Huxtables to the Obamas It ain't about where you been Where you from What you got It's all about love Self love is the best love When you go take that wristband off That pity party been over Don't need makeup to dress you up I gave birth on the bathroom floor Just me, Iman, and headphone cords Don't let this life defeat you I hope this message reach you Throw your hands up Play catch with the hundreds Love is the new money I'm just chillin' with the homies Home is where the heart is Throw your hands up Play catch with the hundreds Love is the new money I'm just chillin' with the homies Home is where the heart is We got love Love, love You better believe it We got love Love, love You better believe it I live in abundance Love is the new money I'm mentally wealthy Spiritually conscious I'm fresh outta Onyx I'm bawlin' and ballin' I play with the hundreds Love is the new money That's my frequency Spark up, burn the sage Clear the room, kill the hate Love is the new wave Play catch with the hundreds Love is the new money I'm just chillin' with the homies Home is where the heart is Play catch with the hundreds Love is the new money I'm just chillin' with the homies Home is where the heart is We got love Love, love You better believe it We got love Love, love You better believe it (Love, love, love) We got love Love, love You better believe it We got love Love, love You better believe it Play catch with the hundreds Love is the new money I'm just chillin' with the homies Home is where the heart is Play catch with the hundreds Love is the new money I'm just chillin' with the homies Home is where the heart is Above all you keep your clarity You keep your focus You keep your sense of love And you keep your sense of purpose Those are, they're integral You know, they're key Happiness You know, um... a lot of people define success differently You know for me You can have everything You could have all the money in the world But if its not enjoyable, if its not sustainable, you know If you can't be a person of integrity while having all these things What does it matter? What does it mean? The value is internal Your value is internal We got love Love, love You better believe it We got love Love, love You better believe it

Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't As I look at what I've done The type of life that I've lived How many things I pray Father will forgive One situation involved a young man He was the ocean and I was the sand He stole my heart like a thief in the night Dulled my senses and blurred my sight (And i used to love him) I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't I chose a road of passion and pain Sacrificed too much and waited in vain Gave up my power ceased being queen Addicted to love like the drug of a fiend Torn and confused wasted and used Reached the crossroad which path would I choose Stuck and frustrated I waited debated For something to happen that just wasn't fated Thought what I wanted was something I needed When momma said no I just should have heeded Misled I bled till the poison was gone And out of the darkness arrived the sweet dawn Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Father you saved me and showed me that life Was much more than being some foolish man's wife Showed me that love was respect and devotion Greater than planets deeper than oceans My soul was weary but now it's replenished Content because that part of my life is finished I see him sometimes and I look in his eyes Is one of a man who's lost treasures untold But my heart is gold I took back my soul And totally let my creator control The life which was his to begin with Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't

My world it moves so fast today The past it seems so far away And life squeezes, so tightly that I can't breathe And every time I've tried to be What someone else thought of me So caught up I wasn't able to achieve But deep in my heart The answer, it was in me And I made up my mind To define my own destiny Oh, no I, I look at my environment And wonder where the fire went What happened to everything we used to be? I hear so many cry for help Searching outside of themselves Now I know that His strength is within me And deep in my heart The answer, it was in me And I made up my mind To define my own destiny And deep in my heart Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh Ah-ah-ah No, no, no No, no, no And deep in my heart The answer, it was in me And I made up my mind To define my own destiny

We're all in this together You're my only hope And it's too divided, too deep to understand But if we don't do it, tell me, who will? Oh, we always say these words that don't mean too much I wonder, where is the love? It's curious The fear still holding us down One day, will we look up? Y'all know what this is You got a right to your own opinion But when it comes to the world we live in Isn't it the time that we start rebuilding? All of the things that are made so they crumble (Wе all) tend to forget that (Wе all) cease to exist and (Wе all) live for ourselves If nobody bothers to find a solution If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't We won't ever learn to save the day, whoa, oh If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't We won't ever learn to save the day We're all in this together You're my only hope And it's too divided, too deep to understand But if we don't do it, tell me, who will? Yeah Always say these words that don't mean too much I won't die, where is the love? It's the cure, yeah The fear still holding us back One day, will we look up? It's up to us If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't We won't ever learn to save the day, whoa, oh (To save the day, to save the day) If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't (Will we) We won't ever learn to save the day, whoa, oh (Ever learn, no) La-la-la, la, la, la Whoa, laaaa Whoa, la Laaa If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't We won't ever learn to save the day, whoa, oh If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't We won't ever learn to save the day, whoa, oh (We will have to learn to save the day) If he won't and she won't, and they won't, then we won't We won't ever learn to save the day We gon' learn, we gon' learn Said we gonna learn

(Hit-Boy) One city, one country, one state Some place to be nobody Some place to be Some place you wouldn't know probably Yeah, yeah If Chappelle moved to Ghana to find his peace then I'm rolling Where the service always roaming, I'm packing my bags and going It's a challenge in that, it's a balancing act Visit beautiful places that's more out here than the trap Houses in Long Island, they always found 'em House in the South, a nigga barely got out Sunny L.A., remember calls with Dr. Dre He told me, "Don't let the palm trees fool you, nigga, be safe" Me and my higher self, we often would speak Somehow we lost the connection, might meet at Joshua Tree And it's been bothering me, too many wavy women Gotta log outta IG, can't be my age DM'ing (haha) No kidding, it's hard to move like a civilian I write the truth 'cause I live it, not like you musical niggas We did it big and they bigots, they'd rather shoot than write tickets What it feel like to go get it? What it feel like to go missing? In one city, one country, one state Some place to be nobody Some place to be Some place you wouldn't know probably Some place to be nobody My dawg bought a plane, said, "Let's go to Paris" That's where baguettes are from, French bread that's long and narrow I like the other definition, rectangular carats The concept of this song is rather esoteric This girl said in Grenada we should go get married Broke the meaning down of the Virgin Mary And you got your own place, my favorite part of the night When you text me that you made it home safe (I'm home) I'm contemplating at the home base How I'm used to breakfast in the ghetto sipping OJ That's a picture right there, a moment in time Before anybody wanted a photo of mine Before the internet, energy and social decline Destroyed the vibe, fooling us with the headlines (Keeping us blind) vultures eat you alive (Take heed to the signs) wishing I'd find One city, one country, one state Some place to be nobody Some place to be Some place you wouldn't know probably Some place to be nobody (life) All my time has been focused on my freedom now Why would I join 'em when I know that I can beat 'em now? They put their words on me, and they can eat 'em now That's probably why they keep on telling me I'm needed now They tried to box me out while taking what they want from me I spent too many years living too uncomfortably Making room for people who didn't like the labor Or wanted the spoils, greedy, selfish behavior Now let me give it to you balanced and with clarity I don't need to turn myself into a parody I don't, I don't do the shit you do for popularity They clearly didn't understand when I said I get out apparently My awareness like Keanu in The Matrix I'm saving souls and y'all complaining 'bout my lateness Now it's illegal for someone to walk in greatness They want the same sh-, they want the same sh-, but they don't take risks Now the world will get to see its own reflection And the anointed can pursue their own direction And if you're wrong, and you're too proud to hear correction Walk into the hole you dug yourself, fuck a projection See me in my freedom taking all my land back They sent a lot against me, thinking I'd just stand back I got my legs beneath me, I got my hands back A lot of people sabotaged, they couldn't stand that I turned the other cheek, I took blow after blow There's so much crisis in the world 'cause you reap what you sow When you keep what you know is meant for someone else The ditch you dig for them, you might just end up in yourself I'm in the secret place, I keep a sacred space They keep showing their hands, but keep hiding their face If I'm a messenger, you block me then you block the message So aggressive, the world you made is what you're left with Pride and ego over love and truth is f- reckless Y'all niggas got a death wish, the stupid leaves me breathless Some place to be, yeah Ain't ducking nothing Just might have to build my own city Where y'all need a real nigga passport to enter Ms. Hill, we ain't going nowhere They gon' have to deal with us Make 'em uncomfortable, hahaha, yeah

I get out I get out of all your boxes I get out You can't hold me in these chains I'll get out Father, free me from this bondage Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change Your stinkin' resolution is no type of solution Preventin' me from freedom Maintainin' your pollution I won't support your lie no more, I won't even try no more If I have to die, oh Lord, that's how I choose to live I won't be compromised no more, I can't be victimised no more I just don't sympathize no more 'Cause now I undertand, you just wanna use me You say love then abuse me You never thought you'd lose me But how quickly we forget That nothing is for certain You thought I'd stay here hurting Your guilt trips just not working repressing me to death 'Cause now I'm choosing life yo I'll take the sacrafice yo If everything must go then go, that's how I choose to live Ok, we gettin' here At least I had a chunk Ok it's how I choose to live No more compromises I see past your disguises Blinding me through mind control Stealing my eternal soul Appealing through material, to keep me as your slave But I'll get out I get out of all your boxes I get out Oh you can't hold me in these chains I get out Oh I want out of social bondage Knowing my condition is the reason I must change See what you see is what you get, oh and you ain't seen nothing yet Oh I don't care if you're upset, I could care less if you're upset See it don't change the truth And your hurt feelings no excuse To keep me in this box, psychological locks Repressing true expression, cementing this repression Promoting mass deception, so that no one can be healed I don't respect your system I won't protect your system When you talk I don't listen, Oh let my fathers will be done And just get out Just get out of all this bondage Just get out Oh you can't hold me in these chains Just get out Of these traditions killing freedom Knowing my condition is the reason I must change I just accepted what you said Keeping me among the dead The only way to know Is to walk then learn then grow But faith is not your speed Oh you'd have everyone believe That you're the sole authority Just follow the majority Afraid to face reality The system is a joke Oh you'd be smart to save your soul, and escape this mind control You spend your life in sacrifice to a system for the dead Oh are you sure, where's the passion in this living Are you sure it's God you're serving Obligated to a system, getting less than you're deserving Who made up these schools I say Who made up these rules I say Animal conditioning, just to keep us as a slave Just get out Of this social purgatory Just get out Oh these traditions are a lie Just get out Superstition killing freedom Knowing my condition is the reason I must die Just get out, just get out, just get out, just get out, just get out Knowing my condition is the reason I must die Just get out