[00:11.730]You had a lot of crooks try'na steal your heart
[00:15.176]Never really had luck, couldn't never figure out
[00:17.983]How to love (how to love)
[00:21.163]How to love (how to love)
[00:23.952]Mm you had a lot of moments that didn't last forever
[00:27.630]Now you in the corner try'na put it together
[00:30.600]How to love (how to love)
[00:33.416]How to love (how to love)
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[00:36.315]Mm for a second you were here, now you over there
[00:39.643]It's hard not to stare, the way you moving your body
[00:42.323]Like you never had a love (had a love)
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[00:49.443]When you was just a youngin', your looks were so precious
[00:52.471]But now your grown up, so fly it's like a blessing
[00:55.513]But you, can't have a man look at you for five seconds
[00:58.902]Without you being insecure
[01:01.377]You never credit yourself so when you got older
[01:05.155]It's seems like you came back ten times over
[01:08.097]Now you're sitting here in this damn corner
[01:11.242]Looking through all your thoughts and looking over your shoulder
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[01:14.155]See you had a lot of crooks try to steal your heart
[01:17.524]Never really had luck, couldn't never figure out
[01:20.547]How to love (how to love, how to love)
[01:22.831]How to love (how to love, how to love)
[01:26.144]Mm see you had a lot of moments that didn't last forever
[01:29.873]Now you in this corner try'na put it together
[01:32.945]How to love (how to love)
[01:35.672]How to love (how to love)
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[01:39.485]I don't know what you been through , I don't know whats in your past
[01:42.625]Affected you, disconnected you makes you fill that glass,
[01:45.898]Grab a needle, find that vein, all so you can hide that pain,
[01:49.126]Images of the pillaging live inside your brain,
[01:52.206]So you give it all away just so you could feel loved,
[01:55.160]Baby girl that man don't love you he just tryna feel you up,
[01:58.227]Ask him if he willin to wait, he'll hit you with "Arr-uhhh,
[02:01.206]I gotta go", Now you gotta go back to that bar and fill that cup,
[02:04.563]Yup, Now you're never gonna find what it is, You think you're lookin for,
[02:07.510]Specially when that liquor pour, And the white girl's (*******) who you cookin for,
[02:10.658]Look I'm sure of the words I preach, Seen many in the hood fall victim to these,
[02:13.665]They ain't wanna heed the words I speak, system of addictions hard to defeat,
[02:16.634]There's a girl crying somewhere, can you hear her,
[02:18.765]She wanna do great things don't fear her,
[02:20.180]Not sure how to make this clearer,
[02:21.539]Learn to love first by looking in the mirror,
[02:23.162]Nobody gonna love you better than you,
[02:24.772]Take it from me, swear I'm a veteran,
[02:26.394]Just when you felt fresh out of luck,
[02:27.642]There's the cliff notes on How To Love.
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[02:29.094]You see you had a lot of crooks try to steal your heart
[02:32.326]Never really had luck, couldn't never figure out
[02:35.361]How to love (how to love)
[02:38.149]How to love (how to love)
[02:40.926]Mm see you had a lot of moments that didn't last forever
[02:44.713]Now you in this corner try'na put it together
[02:48.601]How to love (how to love)
[02:50.191]How to love (how to love)
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