Black Thought - Couldn't Tell lyrics

[Hook: Black Thought] I couldn't tell at first, when we fell in love But I should have left alone like well enough Trying to buy a dream, she was selling d** See that's the irony like the smell of blood Of our relationship, or whatever the hell it was Keeps stinging, but I never let it k** the buzz And first it hasn't hit you, then it does I made the DJ promise to never play this record again because [Verse 1: Black Thought] Before cellular phones were educated And captured actual photographs that never faded A DJ got a request to play the favorite record on the radio of his ex But never played it and Though the lady was vexed and devastated She took a yoga lesson and stretched and meditated And then created a curse that's dedicated to the most hating b**h a** n***a she ever dated Tore through an entire library, one book at a time Looking for rhymes, inspiration, some opening line A marketing plan like having a Coke and a smile Her heart in her hand, though pa**ion had broken it down She placed brick by brick like the China Wall Cueing up the theater lights, before the monologue Cancel the reservation at the Gansevoort We got to start f**ing with the condom more [Hook: Black Thought] I couldn't tell at first, when we fell in love But I should have left alone like well enough Trying to buy a dream, she was selling d** See that's the irony like the smell of blood Of our relationship, or whatever the hell it was Kept stinging, but I never let it k** the buzz And first it hasn't hit you, then it does I made the DJ promise to never play this record again because [Verse 2: Black Thought] Picture the 80's Ethos on the east coast Police, coke, weed smoke, government cheese toast That's when I graduated out of the freak show To grow up on the corner where the k**ers and creeps go to speak low, you know still waters is deep bro The streets know somebody get a shot, it's free throw If anybody hear gun shots, then it's beef though Finito, everybody rolling with heat, 'sho Side effects of the Zoloft, the guns go off In the Dumbo Loft, for the amount jumbo caused Before the prologue, oxygen and the lungs go lost They said they never seen another head slump so hard Or seen the people breaking out like the mumps so hard Or ever seen a heart physically jump so far At the service they never heard a song sung so hard Till it was on the radio, the number one Showoff was playing [Hook] I couldn't tell at first, when we fell in love But I should have left alone like well enough Trying to buy a dream, she was selling d** See that's the irony like the smell of blood Of our relationship, or whatever the hell it was Kept stinging, but I never let it k** the buzz And first it hasn't hit you, then it does I made the DJ promise to never play this record again because