For You Lyrics - Joe Budden

Just gotta get these thoughts off real quick 

See I'm a thinker, it's like thinking shit 

It's when you got 

You sittin' there reflectin', thinkin' shit 

I peep it though 

Look, you liked me better before you knew my history 

Before you knew who I was 

That's when reachin' our potential felt likely 

Nobody like me 

Besides see if I stop bein' who I am 

I'm straight to it, who I might be 

But you gotta look inside each song 

That's where I proved it was really in sight all along 

Bear it all so the privacy gone 

Grab the pen, sit down and write these wrongs 

Just how I right these wrongs, but look 

You liked me better when I spoke usin' censorship 

Before you knew I was really insensitive 

That was back when it was you and me 

Then curiosity killed you, you had to Google me 

Now I won't call the headlines a liar 

Some are true and some are false, that's for y'all to decipher 

But look, on rare occasions some of what they say'll bother me 

I liked it better when the 'Net was still a novelty 

'Cause now people who ain't found themselves 

Get an outlet, yet don't know how they sound themselves 

They like me better when I'm silent and don't have an opinion 

Pretendin' to blend in like I'm a minion 

Say if Joe keep talkin' that shit, he'll get him shot 

But if rappers can't tie my shoes, how can I not? (Shit) 

Thought I had my city's support, I couldn't believe 

Jersey City liked me better when I couldn't leave 

I take it back, that ain't set in stone 

They moreso had weapons drawn cause I left alone 

I liked it better when I had nothin' to lose 

The days when I felt like I had somethin' to prove 

Shit, even for me that's unusual 

If you don't give a fuck then who you gotta prove it to? 

Just the world that I was born in 

You gotta learn to form wins against the storm wind 

They like me better when I fuckin' never call again 

Without it, they don't know what type of box I belong up in 

They like me better without reality television 

Guess they didn't need to witness the hell I was livin' 

In my shoes, you too would seal a fate 

Poppin' twenty pills a day, somebody gon' feel a way, look 

And so these hoes just to pass time 

After the past time, they don't even pass my mind 

You liked me better way before you got lied to 

But that don't really matter when you want me inside you 

Your friends sayin' leave, they don't know that you tried to 

You can't speak to them, I'm the nigga you cry to 

I liked it better when nobody ever heard of me 

'Fore pop had to get that knee surgery 

Guess that effected his bladder 

So when Jackie called me nothin' else really mattered 

Was scared, sounded frantic, I ain't want no parts of that 

Said the ambulance came, might be a heart attack 

Was leavin' work nearly cryin' on the phone 

I'm in rush hour traffic, just seen you dyin' alone, look 

I just pictured all the places that we never went 

All the texts that were never sent 

All the words we never spoke 

Time we never shared, rewind so we can repair 

Such an inspiration, all the holes that you dug through 

Then you got released, God was watchin' above you 

I'm thinkin' you healin', I don't wanna disrupt you 

So I'm right back to never tellin' you that I love you 

And I don't wanna act that way 

If I take somethin' for granted, I don't wanna give it back that way 

Forreal, that's how shit get lost, let me chill 

I like it better when I'm not talkin' over my thoughts, now listen 

I done been down, been down, it's all for you 

Said it's all for you 

And I don't wanna get in your way 

And I don't wanna get in your way 

Said this love is all for you 

Said this love is all for you 

Look, now the singers wanna rap, the rappers wanna sing 

Personally I liked it better back when rappin' was a thing 

'Cause now if you wanna get the high notes 

When that hook come, you gotta hit the high notes 

The label wanna sell singles 

I'm sellin' a story and that'll just taint the message 

Bad marriage, we ain't got the same objective 

Still I'm here 'cause real niggas in the game respect it, look 

They like me better when I let 'em live rent free 

I never knew that once it stopped we'd be enemies 

And though I come off as heartless, nigga 

In spite of yourself, got love for you regardless, nigga 

Now listen, I liked you better when you wasn't in the spotlight 

Was too addicted to it, said some shit was not right 

So when you work so much I couldn't complain 

'Til I learnt she was gateway escapin' from the pain 

The strippers talk to me like I'm their therapist 

That scares the good girls away, don't know the hell I get 

Whatever thoughts you contrive, I can't help you with 

But you've been tossin' it for a year and I derail the shit 

I'm self made, I don't do what I'm told 

The type that needs free reign, to be out of control for real 

'Cause when that's gone I'm lost, let me chill 

I like it better when I'm not talkin' over my thoughts, word