I Want You Back - Joe Budden

Let’s go back to nine seven, seventeen though I looked like 20

And I was poor, I didn’t look like money

Then I saw someone I thought who was mature, looked like she would shun me

And inside its like my pride had been took right from me

She loves to dance, dancin in the middle of the floor

So I thought I better get to her before

Other guys start to notice she was fly, had a brother goin wild

Tryna leave the club with the future mother of my child

(man) I can’t believe it

Nice ass and cleavage

She’s 23, she’s somebody I can see me with

2 weeks pass, now I’m gettin wit her

3 weeks pass, I’m livin wit her

5 weeks pass, now I’m in love I’m so glad that I met her

She’s dedicating love songs Brandy «Have You Ever»

Have you ever had it bad but just a fad

It wouldn’t last forever but still just like

Moms don’t like her, but she adores me

Struggling artist, no job, she supports me

So alone, my only friend is boo

So when its me against the world, the world gotta be against her too

In a year we was homeless, stuck on the street together

Starvin, nothin to eat together

Times get hard, the fightin and the bickering starts

And now she’s throwin in my face about how I can’t get a job

Now she pregnant, another mouth to feed, add that on

Nah the condom ain’t break, I ain’t had that on

Tryna be a man, I went and got a job at 'the wiz'

Chill Angie, I ain’t got the right job for a kid

Can’t keep it, now she heated but we don’t live lavish

It’s a good thing you had that miscarriage

Cause I’m against killin kids but I’da did it

I was wit it, she’s spoiled it, I’m 19 lookin at my bloody son in the toilet

(damn)

We beefin, she likes to bring up old things

And anytime we beef, she likes to throw things

But that knife, I couldn’t dodge it

But my love was too strong so after surgery I dropped them charges

She said I beat her bad, I took her by her feet and dragged

To this day I don’t believe that fact

Can’t see her bein heated and desertin me freely

I know you hurtin, it ain’t workin I know you wanna leave me BUT

After all the court cases, blame is in order

She’s scared of me, hence the restraining order

Had to break up but we made up, family mad at us too

Lets have a baby and then maybe they’ll be havin a truce

She actin rude, havin her moods

Screamin «I'm pregnant», like that’s an excuse

Angie I ain’t tryna hear you now

I had to bounce, I can’t be there for you but I’ll be there for the child

TRE!

they had to cut mommy phoned me to clutch you

She was drugged up still screamin «Joey I love you»

Months passed, here come the cops again

She threw my clothes up out the window

And I end up in the building on the cot again

Naw not again

I see that she’s my baby mother but she’s not my friend

That was the last straw, it was apparent

We ain’t workin as a couple but lets see if we can work as parents

TRE!

you know that mommy used to use you against me

But she got a little better, she don’t use you to tempt me

See me on TV now things got better

She’s says I’m not the same man that I was when I met her

She don’t like Joe Budden, leave that for the public

She want the same guy that she fell in love wit

If she could ever turn it back to like the past

That’s all she ask when she prayin

If I came at her like «I'm back» I know that all she’ll be sayin is.