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Arguing

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Arguing Lyrics

[Chorus: John Legend]
We can't even sit and talk without you arguing
You're the one who started it

[Verse 1: Kanye West]
I got a girl at home, but she don't cook
I have my condoms in the stove 'cause she won't look

And she never ever go to the grocery store
So I figure it's safe to pull a grocery ho
She was buyin' Alizé out the liquor aisle
She said, "I hope it's not too ghetto"
Rocked all gold, force back in style
I kept her number on file for my girl be actin' wild
Like last week, I told her
"Take me to the mall", but she don't drive
My other girl picked me up at 3:05
She got a brand new car, sixteen
Now the car only one years old, oh
Man, but the body look grown, whoa
Before I catch a case, I better take my ass home
Where the problems is, arguments be daily like Carson is
But the problem is

[Chorus: John Legend]
We can't even sit and talk no more without you arguing
Girl, you must be out of your mind, no, no, no
You're the one who started it
And I'm sick and tired of you lying
[Verse 2: Kanye West]
Hold up, wait a second, man
That's that thrift store info, that's all second-hand
Why don't you talk to the mouth of the horses 'bout my Porsches?
Condos in front of the golf courses
Instead you stay up and count every second like a fake Roley
I'm real, so you know I move real slowly
The way the censorship should go off, you know me
I ain't call you, you wanna know why?
I'm in Noha, Honaloha, pushin' jet skis
So I couldn't return the pages on my Motorola
Nextel, my cell, it don't work down there
What happened in Cancun stayed down there
What's happenin' here made me wish I stayed down there
Take a seat, why you always makin' a beef?
You know these walls too thin in this apart-a-ment
Now everybody hearin' our arguments
But the problem is

[Chorus: John Legend]
We can't even sit and talk no more without you arguing
Girl, you must be out of your mind, no, no, no
You're the one who started it
And I'm sick and tired of you lying

[Verse 3: Kanye West]
Man, boo, you know what I do
So don't trip when I come home after two
Or three or four, I ain't messin' with them girls no more
It's weak, the Benz coupe is so sweet
When I roll down the street, tears roll down her cheek
She said, "You must love that car more than me
And nigga, I was with you before the cheese
So you need to work on your pri-or-ities"
If she went with Fabolous, I bet that she would be
A-R-G-U-I-N-G and please

I'm not actin' like this 'cause I'm getting spins on
W-K-R-P in Cincinnati

You think I'd get my voice so deep like
W-K-R-P in Cincinnati

That's how much of a fuck I give
You seen Cribs? That's how the fuck I live
As far as this?
[Chorus: John Legend]
We can't even sit and talk no more without you arguing
Girl, you must be out of your mind, no, no, no
You're the one who started it
And I'm sick and tired of you lying
We can't even sit and talk no more without you arguing
Girl, you must be out of your mind
You're the one who started it

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Version of “Arguing” that was included on the unofficial mixtape Freshmen Adjustment under the name “Out Of Your Mind”. Very similar to the previous version however there are John Legend vocals over the Martin Lawrence sample.

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March 21, 2005
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