[Intro]
D-O-N-T N-E-E-D L-O-V-E

[KRS sample]
You know that’s why men, I be telling you all the time, you know love, that word live is a very serious thing if you don’t watch out…

[Verse 1]
Michael Connelly reminded me with Echo Park
Of days of hoppin' on the metro
When they let those spark
Back when I collected retro art
And since then many'a dearly departed, God bless they heart
God bless they hearts, harder livin' in pain
Where the sun and the rain became one in the same
I took it as a lesson; I was still learnin'
I'm still the will of the '84 torch burnin'
I been through heartbreaks to breakups to make-ups to broke again
Not back again, my soul on the rope again
Took the jacket off and saw blood on my sleeves
When you wear your heart there, this the puddle it leaves
I don't need love
It's the rebuttal of thieves
And chicks with crooks like you, so what'll it be
She steal your heart, now she runnin' the streets
Don't need the pain, man troublin' me
[Hook]
I don't need love, I don't
I don't need love
Need love, need love
I don't need love
I don't need love
I don't need love
Need love

[Verse 2]
While Kanye was chasin' spaceships all over the nation
I was at the gravesite, face on the pavement
Left college dropout, first flight racing
From Scranton, Pennsylvania on a prop plane prayin'
Heart bout to pop out my chest in Pittsburgh
Paranoid in first class, heard a voice whisper (real talk)
Just touched back in LAX
And my phone starts buzzin' to a thousand texts
Out the gate and runnin' like I'm motorless
'I Still Love You' explained if you don't know the rest
I would say that's when love became an issue
Anybody treated me good, that's when I diss you
A certain chick who caught the bad end of the stick
And through thin and thick, I still miss you
I've trashed every girl I've had since
Warm heart, cold mind is absent, imagine
I don't need love anymore, I need pressure
Pain, my veins feeling so electric
Blue in the skin, choosin' my sin
Til the same sins doin' me in, I don't need love
[KRS sample]
You know that’s why men, I be telling you all the time, you know love, that word live is a very serious thing if you don’t watch out…

[Hook]