[ti:You Must Love Me] [ar:Jay-Z] [al:Original Album Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.55]Artist:jay-z [00:01.17]Songs Title:you must love me [00:05.05]Talking: throughout my life (uh huh uh huh uh) [00:07.95]No matter what i've done (right) [00:10.64]You've been merciful and your love endureth (yeah) [00:15.53]Through all things (ye yeah) for that [00:20.41]I am eternally grateful [00:22.53]Since my date of birth [00:24.04]Bought you nothing but hurt [00:25.36]Play those video games [00:26.80]Stole change from ya purse [00:28.49]Sat on the cold court bench [00:30.17]'Til i was arraigned in ya skirt [00:31.73]Saw the pain in ya face [00:33.11]Through you maintained a smirk [00:34.67]All you did was motivate me [00:36.17]Don't let 'em hold you back [00:37.61]What i do i turned around [00:39.23]And i sold you crack [00:40.30]I was a bastard for that [00:42.17]Still i'm drowning in shame [00:43.74]Just remember one thing now [00:45.59]You're not to blame [00:46.91]You was newly seperated [00:48.47]Tryin' to escape ya world [00:49.97]And through my thirst [00:51.16]I didn't help you [00:52.10]I just made things worse [00:53.16]I hated me and everybody [00:54.55]That created crack [00:55.55]Had me thinkin' [00:56.87]The newest kicks and the latest gat [00:59.24]Still haven't apologized [01:00.75]So please play this back [01:02.30]While i try to come to terms [01:03.99]With such a heinous act [01:05.43]You know in more than one way [01:07.37]Coc*ine numbs the brain [01:08.56]All i did was think about [01:09.99]How the funds once came [01:11.56]Then i ran across this memory [01:13.12]And it stung the brain [01:14.68]How can you ever destroy the beauty [01:16.37]From which one came [01:17.74]That's a savage you're the reason [01:19.36]Why me and these beats make a marriage [01:21.43]Why i rhyme above average and [01:22.87]I ain't sh*t [01:24.06]Glad you got yourself together [01:25.62]No thanks to me [01:27.00]Strong and beautiful the way thangs should be [01:29.56]You must love me [01:31.55]Chorus (k price) (you must love me repeats in background) [01:40.25]Say that you love me [01:41.62]All i know say that you must love me [01:43.46]Ohh yeah [01:47.08]We used to fight every night [01:50.46]But i never would suffer [01:51.83]Just smile my big brother's [01:53.65]Tryna make me tougher [01:54.70]As we grew fussing and fighting continued [01:56.95]As i plundered through ya stuff [01:59.65]And snuck ya clothes to school [02:01.21]Got intense real intense [02:02.64]As we got older [02:04.08]Never believed it would lead [02:05.52]To be popped in one of ya shoulda [02:07.39]With my rings knew you had it [02:09.14]'Cause you took too long [02:10.21]As mickey andy and the girl that bought it looked on [02:13.14]Huffin' and puffin' gun in my hand [02:15.21]Told you step outside [02:16.40]Hoping you said no but you hurt my pride [02:19.52]Made our way down the steps [02:21.15]Maybe you thought it was just a threat [02:22.84]Or maybe ya life was just that crazy [02:24.52]And you was beggin' for death [02:25.65]Try to justify this in my young mind [02:27.52]But ya drillin' it [02:28.89]And my ego hurt combined [02:30.77]Drove me berzerk [02:31.84]Saw the devil in your eyes [02:33.34]High off more than w**d [02:34.91]Confused i just closed [02:36.54]My young eyes and squeezed [02:38.10]What a sound [02:39.04]Opened my eyes just in time [02:40.28]To see ya stumbling to the ground [02:41.91]Damn what the f**k i done now [02:44.22]Runnin' around in a circle [02:45.41]Thinking i'm assed out [02:47.10]Hot gun burnin' my waist [02:48.91]Ran straight to jazz' house [02:50.41]Like a stranger damn i just shot my ni**a [02:53.47]And ran off into the night as if it was not my ni**a [02:56.66]Left the scene how could i go out that way [02:59.67]Still you asked to see me in the hospital ya next day [03:02.67]You must love me [03:04.56]What after all the wrong i've done [03:07.88]I know you must [03:08.87] [03:14.71]Verse 3 (starts over last line of chorus) [03:16.33]Everything in my power and within my frame [03:18.14]To protect you from this life and [03:19.83]Keep you away from the game [03:21.22]But you was one of the few people [03:22.84]That i can trust [03:24.34]And the fact of the matter i slang [03:26.15]These pies for us [03:27.09]You put the pressure on me dearly [03:28.90]Rarely would you let it go [03:30.41]Was a thousand and one times [03:32.03]I had to tell you no [03:33.59]When it was one of those days [03:35.16]When nobody was around [03:36.03]And i needed emergency trip [03:38.34]Out of town [03:39.47]Searched my mental rolodex [03:40.66]For all the numbers i know [03:42.78]As you stared in my face [03:44.34]Asking me could you go [03:45.72]I'm agreed said sender [03:47.40]Everything'll go smooth [03:48.34]Just tell her what to do [03:50.84]And everything'll go through [03:52.15]Strapped her body with them thangs [03:53.78]As you boarded the plane [03:55.34]Couldn't explain these strange feelings [03:56.66]That i caught and the pain [03:57.85]I'm thinkin' why would i send you [03:59.91]When i knew it ain't right [04:01.41]I'm thinkin' what would [04:02.35]Make you sacrifice ya life [04:03.85]You must love me [04:05.47] [04:08.17]After everything that i've done wrong [04:10.61]I know inside you must love me [04:17.55]I know that you love me [04:34.78]You showed me i know it [04:47.49]I know [04:53.06]Say that you love me [04:57.99]Say that you love me [04:59.55] [05:03.98]I know you must love me [05:09.42]Oh yes you do [05:18.80]Inside i know it [05:21.54]You've always shown it [05:24.67]You love me yea yeah [05:27.92]Oh yeah [05:29.55]I know that you love me