Cojiba - Black Thought

When I was 25, and she was like 20

A stolen moment in time was paradise to me

She used to keep it shakin' like a pair of dice for me

Never needed to question what she sacrificed for me

She was caramel complected, with a body like heaven

How many years was we together, probably like seven

That Ethio Eritria Somali type lovin'

Shoulda knew I would never find somebody like—

Look on one Friday night session, a minor indiscretion

Almost had me like what Usher sing 'bout in «True Confession»

I was wishin' I could go back, make a minor adjustment

But I knew that kind of throwback simply out of the question

I knew love’s not possession, wish I’d gotten a message

Instead of blocking my blessing, now it’s gotten depressing

I gotta stop and address it, I ain’t tryna stress it

If I could get you back, I learned a valuable lesson

Love

Had me thinkin' like

Ayo, lightning is hard to capture twice

When I was in my bachelor life and I was mad at life

Thinking I could see serious rewards without the sacrifice

I survived on beer and bad advice before I had a wife

I remember, knew a Tanzanian Zanzibar Swahili girl

The day we met, it was something from a Fellini film

She passed my table at brunch and made my Bellini spill

Then grabbed a napkin, I seen her arm was graffiti filled

I said I like your sleeve, she said I love your music

So much that sometimes it choke me up, I gotta fight to breathe

Don’t judge me like a book’s cover because looks might deceive

But if you’d like to sit and talk a while I’d like to leave

I told her you need not repeat yourself as bad as you are

We left and walked and talked 'bout everything that matter to her

Like foreign policy, race gender equality, climate change

Fashion, arts, the global economy

'Bout how the key part of a relationship is honesty and

How her virtue was hard is something she can promise me, well

I said I dig the fact you woke and you keep it a hundo

But rushin' in like fools do is something I’ve never done so

Since time is of the essence, if I enjoy your presence

Over time I might be so inclined to let have some lessons

I see it different 'cause my frequency is different

You can’t be under wing unless you equally as gifted

That’s yet to be determined, the jury’s still pending

What’s the use of pretending, it could be a happen ending when I—

Ayo

Shit crazy