Erykah Badu, Common - Love Of My Life (An Ode To Hip Hop) (Album Version Edit)

[00:00.61] Right here what we gon' do is go back [00:06.54] Way back [00:09.69] Way back, yeah [00:16.40] I met him when I was a [00:19.28] Little girl, he gave me [00:22.08] He gave me poetry [00:24.95] And he was my first [00:27.44] But in my heart I knew I [00:30.19] Wasn't the only one [00:32.94] Cause when the tables turned [00:35.61] He had to break up [00:38.30] Whenever I got lonely [00:40.55] Or needed some advice [00:43.12] He gave me his shoulder [00:45.92] His words were very nice [00:48.74] But that is all behind me [00:51.38] Cause now there is no other [00:54.14] My love is his and his is mine [00:57.28] A friend became the [00:58.74] Love of my life [01:00.64] You are my friend [01:04.09] Love of my life [01:06.39] I can depend [01:09.65] Love of my life [01:11.54] Without you, baby [01:14.91] It feels like a simple true love [01:19.13] Hope this shit ain't clear [01:21.66] A freak-freak ya'll, and ya don't stop [01:24.25] To the beat ya'll and ya don't stop [01:26.95] A freak-freak [01:27.90] Or could it be that it was [01:30.26] All just so simple then [01:33.00] A teenage lover who said [01:35.89] He's just a friend [01:38.56] He moved around and we kept [01:41.98] In touch through his friend Mike [01:43.97] The world was young and he knew [01:46.92] We couldn't rush but [01:48.72] Whenever I got lonely [01:51.67] Or needed some advice [01:55.46] He gave me his shoulder [01:56.94] His words were very nice [01:59.76] But that is all behind me [02:02.71] Cause now there is no other [02:05.26] My love is his and his is mine [02:07.88] A friend became the [02:09.86] Love of my life [02:11.95] You are my friend [02:15.33] Love of my life [02:17.64] A dude I can depend, yeah, yeah [02:20.60] Love of my life [02:22.78] Feels like a simple true love, yeah [02:29.14] Love of my life [02:30.59] You are my friend [02:32.03] Love of my life [02:32.88] A dude I can depend, yeah, yeah [02:33.01] Love of my life [02:33.26] Feels like a simple true love, yeah [02:34.45] Hope this shit ain't clear [02:35.27] Y'all know how I met her [02:35.82] We broke up and got back together [02:36.95] To get her back I had to sweat her (sweat her) [02:38.43] Thought she roll wit bad boys forever [02:40.52] In many ways them boys made her better [02:42.34] To grow I had to let her (let her) [02:43.80] She needed cheddar and I understood that (that) [02:46.50] Lookin' for cheese that don't make her a hood rat (rat) [02:49.21] In fact she's a queen to me, her light beams on me [02:51.22] I love it when she sings to me [02:54.43] It's like that and a [02:55.59] Ooh you know you rock my world [02:57.08] And you be boy and I'll be girl [03:03.07] And we don't stop until the break of dawn [03:16.95] Ooh you know you rock my world [03:22.10] And you be boy and I'll be girl [03:27.53] And we don't stop until the break of oohhh [03:35.04]