[Chorus: Ja Rule]
  Love don't love me
  Is the only thing that seems to hold me
  God can you explain why
  Love don't love me
  Is the only thing that seems to hold me
  God can you explain why
    [Ja Rule]
  I sit alone in my four cornered room staring at candles
  Gettin hot tryin to handle, this hand that's been dealt to me
  I don't need, especially in this world overwhelmed with greed
  See we cut from a different tree
  Y'all niggaz hope and I wish a nigga would fuck with INC
  Went through the troubles and the struggle of hustlin and runnin (what)
  So the ones that come behind don't' run through nothin
  They would fear no man but God and do a lot of frontin
  And I'm here to tell the world that pain is lovin'
  Like when I die I hope it rains
  Cuz if it does, that mean the lord shared them niggaz pain
  Here lie our man slain
  And I would get out the game if I could
  But I promised all my life to my kids I'd make good
  Can't stand my father and love my momma
  STILL I TRY, God can you explain why
    [Chorus]
    [Ja Rule]
  I live my life under pistol, cuz lately love ain't been a issue
  With who's gone miss you, when you dead and gone
  Will my name live on? Or will I be the last to die and breathe and eat
  Cuz I need a little love and affection and baby
  I live like every day was my last one
  Dang, I've been living my life... (haha, yea)
  Like I'm a leave this world unmarked, smiles combed to horror
  For all them days when it rains
  And it feels like thangs ain't gettin no better for me
  Nobody loves me, sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me
  And wipe the tears from eyes
  Cuz in my heart I know only the strong survive
  And I die for my family, so they can live a better life
  I try, God can you explain why
    [Chorus]
    [Ja Rule]
  I'll sacrifice my life, fuck all the dumb shit
  Cuz being black and broke's gettin redundant
  My grow to be a world leader like X and King
  If I can live a longer than Pac and BIG
  What do (?) niggaz run red, you could tell by the lives we live
  If it changes it'll be God's prediction, so pain inflicted, like Jane's Addiction
  Live right like Christians, but dance with the death
  It's like callin' stones a devil, the road is unlevel
  Still I walk through the valleys of shadows of death gasping for air
  Breathe in my last breath
  My daughter told me first words, my son walked his first steps
  And all through life we anticipate death
  And if pain is truly love, for my family I DIE, God can you explain why
    [Chorus]