Echoes - Talib Kweli, Miguel, Patrick Stump

Like that right there

It feels so African

Got a little somethin' on my chest

Gotta get it off, gotta get it off

You say the meanest fuckin' things to me

And I pretend that I don’t care

But when it’s said and done and the war is won

Your words are all I hear

And they echo

And they echo

And they echo

And they echo

Say what you mean, mean what you say

You the meanest girl, you my Tina Fey

Like you out for pain, like you out for shame

But you pout when I call you out your name

Your words burnin' me, you’re my bird of prey

When you feed your young, you regurgitate

What I heard you say and reverberate

But I’m a man, gotta show my vertebrae

I’m the kind to wait, you can come through with

You can run to it and get numb to it

Treat you like the Autobahn, just sung to it

Treat you like my favorite song and just jump to it

Girl you waste my bluff when we makin' love

Can’t take it, love, you my favorite drug

You my fleur-de-lys, you disturb the peace

Cause you hurtin' me, you turned to me and said

Love is a potion that’s fluent, let’s keep it movin'

The only thing that’s magic is moments, I’m only human

The only thing that’s tragic is futures that we can ruin

I pound for couple of hours, double influence

Need a break from the words you’re usin'

My love broke my Kevin Hart

Let me explain cause I see what you’re doin'

Mama said, «You don’t need to stay»

Papa said, «Boy you need to pray», goddamn

You say the meanest fuckin' things to me

And I pretend that I don’t care

But when it’s said and done and the war is won

Your words are all I hear

And they echo

And they echo

And they echo

And they echo

We can’t internalize the things people say to us

But it make you sus, I need a break from us

I used to think your attitude was a major plus

Now the way you talk to me is like we breakin' up

Tryna get into my zone without you makin' a fuss

Like sticks and stones, your words breakin' stuff

They hittin' home, but I can take a punch

I’m your David Lynch, you’re my naked lunch

I found space for us, found a place for us

Used to pray for love, used to pray for us

Would’ve gave you my blood but you gave it up

My heart a house for this love but you sprayed it up

You can’t take a brush, comments is tangled up

In a web of emotion that’s dangerous

I can’t make this up, that shit is lame as fuck

I ain’t a slave but I’m out here tryna make a buck

Stayin' on my hustle, I ride around and I spend it

Set it into motion like butterflies to defect it

Tryin' to pretend that the words are never effective

Seem to work for a second but never be worth the effort

I’m a man and they say I ain’t s’posed to run on emotions

So I let you get away with more than you were supposed to

I kept it bottled up like a note to float in the ocean

Just stop myself, I’m explodin'

You say the meanest fuckin' things to me

And I pretend that I don’t care

But when it’s said and done and the war is won

Your words are all I hear

And they echo

And they echo

And they echo

And they echo