30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ [l]This is the first commandment.
31And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Mark 12:30-31
lyrics
Verse 1
When you're sitting on top of the world life can bring you down
In the hustle day to day can often make you frown
Fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters sometimes don't get along
So much killing among all the people a change of heart will make us strong
Chorus
You have to love yourself, truly love, love yourself
You have to love yourself
Verse 2
Often times we're hated by the colour of our skin
Only fools do so, cause they don't know, with us humanity began
Why oh why we abuse each other, and get stabbed in the back
The Animal kingdom gets all the respect
But we're left out and that's a fact
Chorus
Rap
All hail the black born, black scorn,
Black thorn that transformed into a black storm in rap form
That rains love, pain comes to splash on, your days done
Save some from deaths doing
As time gets ticking, rhyme gets clicking,
Love kicks in, I find what I'm missing
It's the little light of mine when I write a rhyme
This is something you can try to find, when you find the time
It takes patience, knowledge, wisdom and understanding
Holding a smile is hard when you are constantly descending
The pressures build up, stresses kill us
Stretchers fill up with daffodils, we have to heal us
I need Love, you can call me James Smith (LL)
If you're lost, Donatello, "its the same Shift,"
When I'm looking within, i found H I M, H N I C, homie Yes I AM
Take no Mess, Love Yourself
Take no Mess, Love Yourself
Truly Love Yourself
credits
from Love Yourself,
released January 23, 2023
Written by Darryl Simons, K.A.S.E, E.Sean Caisey, Derek Simmons, Tony Cox, & Conrad Roach
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