It was so beautiful   Remember how in love we were?   So in love.   So in love.   Once.   So in love.   Once.      She was a young girl   I was a young man   And I knew they would get her when I let go her hand   And then I let go   The inevitable   So beautiful   And susceptible   So wonderful   And so innocent   And after this neither one of us would benefit   Yeah, I was a dropout   She was a graduate   She said I’ll never be nothing she wasn’t having it   Yeah, I tried to break her down   I tried to reason it   She said I wasn’t nobody to be believing in   Yeah, what a waste of time   What a waste of mind   Your place of mind was a part of the design   Yeah, I used to call her up   She never called back   When she called that said I wasn’t all that   Yeah, I know that times change   And people change, too   I was a fool just to think that I could change you      Everyone’s got stories gone   About a love we once knew   So high in the beginning   Until the world cuts through   And then everything changes   Nothing feels the same   Piece by piece it falls apart until   All that’s left is blame      And if I had a chance to do it all over I’d do it exactly the same      I was a b-boy   She was a good girl   Turned hot girl   Had to be a hood girl   Never did she notice she would end up in a shook world   I was like look girl it’s all in the book   Yeah, I used to tell her jokes   I used to make her laugh   And if I had a whole dollar I would give her half   So delicate   And so intelligent   And then she trying to play me out just for the hell of it   Back when she was 19 not even 21   Used to do a thing getting somebody anyone   Thought that she was naive   Or was it really me   I do believe   She was the one that was fulfulling me   So we broke up at a barbecue   Drove home thinking never will I bother you   Yeah, I just didn’t know   What it was hidden for   She had me sitting low   But she was bullshitting, though      Everyone’s got stories gone   About a love we once knew   So high in the beginning   Until the world cuts through   And then everything changes   Nothing feels the same   Piece by piece it falls apart until   All that’s left is blame      So I just kept rhyming   I caught her eye again   Next thing you know she was hollering let’s try again   But I wasn’t buying in   Didn’t want to lie again   Love was in the frying pan   Baby, it’s done   But she started hanging out   And started being seen   Seeing things different   Said she wasn’t being mean   Yeah, if I let her in   Then I let her win   But I’m a veteran what’s better than a friend   Maybe she was an angel   But she’s in disguise   And I just didn’t see the God-light in her eyes   Or maybe I should I walk away   And cut all the ties   Stay on the rise   Leave love left where love dies   We were youngsters   But we’re older now   But the world is a little more colder now   And I’m just trying to get it all off my shoulder now   Baby, you can hold it down   I’ll see you in the wind      Everyone’s got stories gone   About a love we once knew   So high in the beginning   Until the world cuts through   And then everything changes   Nothing feels the same   Piece by piece it falls apart until   All that’s left is blame      That’s right, baby   Next life time   Yeah, ain’t that what they say?   Check it out   Love don’t hate   I got love for you   Always