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Ain't No Love in the City

from Food Scraps by HNL

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lyrics

Ra1: Living between madness and bad situations
has a dilemma so there's no need for hesitations
one route or the other take you on a dirt road
we live like a stogey laced in sherm yo- we burn slow
Now come travel with this lost soul
and catch the mind of a diamond in the land of False Gold
there's false hope, within my radius
plus all the pain I get only gets me dangerous
And the lemons aren't what they seem to be
so fuck ya'll who broke my heart relentlessly
ya'll did me wrong, and ya'll know it's true
but why trip I'll let fate get a hold of you
As for me, falling like a droplet is never an option
I'm tryna' reenact my dreams, it's all I got, shit
'cause happiness is definitely to kill for
you can still stand tall even though you're still short

Chorus (x2):
('Cause) ain't no love in the city
ain't no help when you're hellbound
see life is just a trip to me
but i always find my way around

Introspect: So many people think that they living in misery,
But fuck that, I ain’t letting bullshit get to me
Never that, ‘cause I’ve dwelled in my past man
But came back twice as harder than I ever had

And these other people seem to criticize your every movement
Pointing out the faults in others makes their problems soothing
In choosing, your direction or goal,
Realize life takes its time to unfold.

So…I’m not waiting for a handout,
Pops never lived at home I had to take my own rout
With no doubt, I placed my trust in making cream
…the people highest up got the lowest self-esteem
Ain’t that right Kanye?
By why the people that I know only speak on broken dreams?
That’s the problem with society,
Expect the best but take no steps to make a dream reality.

Chorus (x2):
('Cause) ain't no love in the city
ain't no help when you're hellbound
see life is just a trip to me
but i always find my way around

Ra1: They say the greater the drama, the greater the hunger
sometimes I wonder if I'm starving more than any other
life's harder than a diamond, but ain't gonna' bug about it
see, I'm tryna' make it mine, so I'm mining until I got it
I acknowledge my tribulations as an adolescent
I'm just an average joe my life ain't all that impressive (never been)
and it might seem to sound pessimistic, but listen
optimism won't last if you pay my past a visit (that's a fact)
Where's a helping hand when you need one?
you can barely trust those with the same veins you bleed from
'cause we come from a cursed generation
where love is mistakened and most be on that fake shit
I gotta' remind myself not to lose it
I'll see the light through the tunnel, I just gotta' walk through it
like, 2Pac did, yo I'm wishin' for some "Better Dayz"
after all the bullshit, I gotta' learn to have some faith
What will it take just for me to go through
overcoming tasks on my own with no one to run to (fuck it)
I guess I'm a humble, hungry lyricist
in the process of bulding my landmark of a pyramid

Chorus (x2):
('Cause) ain't no love in the city
ain't no help when you're hellbound
see life is just a trip to me
but i always find my way around

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from Food Scraps, released January 7, 2013

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