I Don’t Need Love Lyrics

[Intro]
D-O-N-T N-E-E-D L-O-V-E


[KRS sample]
You know that’s why men, I be telling you all the time, you know love, that word live is a very serious thing if you don’t watch out…

[Verse 1]
Michael Connelly reminded me with Echo Park
Of days of hoppin' on the metro
When they let those spark
Back when I collected retro art

And since then many'a dearly departed, God bless they heart
God bless they hearts, harder livin' in pain
Where the sun and the rain became one in the same
I took it as a lesson; I was still learnin'
I'm still the will of the '84 torch burnin'
I been through heartbreaks to breakups to make-ups to broke again
Not back again, my soul on the rope again
Took the jacket off and saw blood on my sleeves
When you wear your heart there, this the puddle it leaves
I don't need love

It's the rebuttal of thieves
And chicks with crooks like you, so what'll it be

She steal your heart, now she runnin' the streets
Don't need the pain, man troublin' me
[KRS sample]
You know that’s why men, I be telling you all the time, you know love, that word live is a very serious thing if you don’t watch out…

[Hook]

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Genius Annotation

“I Don’t Need Love” shows Evidence talking dealing with his mother’s death after leaving a tour with Kanye West. He went more in-depth about the track in the following video:

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