Love Of My Life-The Roots/Common

[ti:Love Of My Life (Featuring Common)] [ar:The Roots] [al:The Roots Come Alive (Explicit Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Love Of My Life - The Roots/Common [00:18.49]Make some noise if you're with me [00:20.34] [00:22.64]Come on y'all make some noise if you're with me [00:25.45] [00:28.49]Make some noise if you're with me [00:30.57] [00:33.90]Make some noise if you're with me [00:35.90] [00:39.00]It's like that y'all and it sounds so nice [00:41.72]Hip-hop you the love of my life [00:43.84]We 'bout to go to the top y'all [00:45.88]Hip-hop hu to the top hu [00:48.23]Hip-hop check it out [00:49.95]It's like that y'all and it sounds so nice [00:52.53]Hip-hop you the love of my life [00:54.56]We 'bout to go to the to the to the [00:56.75]To the to the to the to the [00:57.95]To the to the to the to the [00:59.00]To the to the to the to the check it out [01:00.93]The anticipation arose as time froze [01:03.54]I stared off the stage with my eyes closed and dove [01:06.36]Into the deep cosmos [01:07.83]The impact pushed back twenty five rows [01:09.98] [01:10.56]But before the raw live shows [01:12.48]Come on I'se a little snot-nosed [01:14.55]Rockin' Gazelle goggles and Izod clothes [01:17.00]Learnin' the ropes of ghetto survival [01:19.18]Peepin' out the situation I had to slide through [01:21.93]Had to watch my back my front plus my sides too [01:24.72]But when it came to gettin' mine I ain't tryin' to argue [01:27.32]Sometimes I wouldn'ta made it if it wasn't for you [01:29.64]Hip-hop you the love of my life and that's true [01:32.63]When I was handlin' the sh*t I had to do [01:34.98]It was all for you from the door for you [01:37.73]Speak through you gettin' paper on tour for you [01:40.39]From the start thought was down by law for you [01:43.25]I used to hit up every corner store wall for you [01:45.93]We ripped sh*t and kept it hardcore for you [01:48.40]I remember late nights steady rockin' the mic [01:51.21]Hip-hop you the love of my life [01:53.20]Tell the people like that y'all that y'all [01:55.45]And it sounds so nice [01:56.68]Hip-hop you the love of my life [01:58.24]We 'bout to take it to the top [02:00.26]To the top to the top to the top to the top [02:02.40]To the top to the top to the top check it out [02:04.77]It's like that y'all and it sounds so nice [02:07.11]Hip-hop you the love of my life [02:09.04]We 'bout to go to the to the to the [02:10.79]To the to the to the to the [02:12.05]To the to the to the to the [02:13.42]To the to the to the to the check it out [02:15.57]Yo yo I was speakin' to my guy 'Riq and [02:17.85]How she was desperately seekin' [02:19.16]To organize in a confusion [02:20.54]Usin' no protection told her on resurrection [02:23.45]Caught in the Hype Williams [02:24.82]And lost her direction [02:26.10]Gettin' ate in sections where I wouldn't eat her [02:28.63]An under the counter love so silently I treat her [02:31.41]Her daddy'll beat her eyes all Puffed [02:33.87]In the mix on tape niggaz had her in the buff [02:36.51]When we touch it was more than just a f**k [02:38.76]The Police in her I found peace like who [02:40.67]Like Malcolm in the East [02:41.99]Seen her on the streets of New York trickin' off [02:44.59]Tried to make a hit with her but my dick went soft [02:47.20]Movin' weight losin' weight not picky [02:48.72]With who she choose to date [02:50.08]To confuse the hate [02:51.13]With her struggle I relate [02:52.43]Close to thirty most of the niggaz she know is dirty [02:55.19]Havin' more babies than Lauryn [02:56.52]She started showin' early [02:57.64]As of late I realized that this is her fate [03:00.28]Or destiny that brings the best of me [03:01.91]It's like God is testin' me [03:03.32]In retrospect I see she brought life and death to me [03:05.87]Peace to us collectively [03:07.05]Live and direct when we perform [03:08.92]It's just coffee shop chicks and white dudes [03:11.21]Over her I got into it with that ni**a Ice Cube [03:13.43] [03:14.00]Now the fight moved to in life [03:15.32]Makin' the right moves [03:16.42]Besides God and family you my life's jewel [03:18.81]Like that y'all and it sounds so nice [03:21.29]Hip-hop you the love of my life [03:23.45]We 'bout to go to the top y'all [03:25.33]Hip-hop hu to the top hu [03:28.06]Hip-hop hu [03:29.40]It's like that y'all and it sounds so nice [03:32.12]Hip-hop you the love of my life [03:34.00]We 'bout to go to the to the to the [03:35.71]To the to the to the to the [03:36.96]To the to the to the to the [03:38.37]To the to the to the to the