Love Of My Life (An Ode To Hip Hop)-Erykah Badu

[00:00.55]ERYKAH BADU [00:00.93]"Love Of My Life" [00:01.33] [00:01.71](feat. Common) [00:02.23] [00:03.44]Bring it over here and let's go back [00:05.89]Way back [00:10.02]Ooh... [00:11.19]Way back, yeah [00:13.68] [00:17.00]I met him when I was a [00:19.36]Little girl, he gave me [00:22.53]He gave me poetry [00:25.27]And he was my first [00:27.52] [00:27.97]But in my heart I knew I [00:30.44]Wasn't the only one [00:33.38]'Cause when the tables turned [00:36.32]He had to break up [00:38.25] [00:38.66]Whenever I got lonely [00:41.05]Or needed some advice [00:43.88]He gave me his shoulder [00:46.55]His words were very nice [00:48.56] [00:49.60]But that is all behind me [00:52.10]'Cause now there is no other [00:54.79]My love is his and his is mine [00:57.51]A friend became the [00:59.27] [00:59.56]Love of my life [01:01.41]You are my friend [01:04.69]Love of my life [01:06.71]I can depend [01:10.05]Love of my life [01:12.00]Without you, baby [01:15.83]It feels like a simple true love [01:18.17] [01:23.28]A freak-freak, y'all, and ya don't stop [01:24.71]To the beat y'all and ya don't stop [01:27.42]A freak-freak [01:28.53] [01:28.79]Or could it be that it was [01:30.95]All just so simple then [01:33.70]A teenage lover who said [01:36.38]He's just a friend [01:37.94] [01:38.86]He moved around and we kept [01:41.90]In touch through his friend Mike [01:44.47]The world was young and he knew [01:47.27]We couldn't rush but [01:49.27] [01:49.71]Whenever I got lonely [01:52.16]Or needed some advice [01:54.92]He gave me his shoulder [01:57.66]His words were very nice [01:59.60] [02:00.25]But that is all behind me [02:03.19]'Cause now there is no other [02:05.80]My love is his and his is mine [02:08.86]A friend became the [02:10.34] [02:10.58]Love of my life [02:12.40]You are my friend [02:15.87]Love of my life [02:18.44]A dude I can depend, yeah, yeah [02:21.64]Love of my life [02:23.22]Feels like a simple true love, yeah [02:28.24] [02:34.18]Y'all know how I met her [02:36.18]We broke up and got back together [02:37.40]To get her back I had to sweat her [02:39.26]Thought she roll with bad boys forever in many ways [02:41.94]Them boys may be better, to I had to let her (Never) [02:44.73]She needed cheddar and I understood that [02:47.22]Lookin' for cheese, that don't make her a hood rat (Rat) [02:50.01]In fact she's a queen to me, her light beams on me [02:52.32]I love it when she sings to me [02:55.11]It's like that now [02:55.83] [02:56.11]Love of my life [02:56.86]Ooh, you know you rock my world and [03:00.08]Love of my life [03:00.90]You be boy and I'll be girl and [03:03.43]Love of my life [03:06.60]We don't stop until the break of dawn, ooh... [03:09.01] [03:15.98]Love of my life [03:18.03]Ooh, you know you rock my world and [03:20.01]Love of my life [03:25.36]You be boy and I'll be girl and [03:28.10]Love of my life [03:29.86]Yeah... [03:41.02]