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The intro and outro sample Alexander O'Neal's 1985 R&B track If You Were Here Tonight. By using this old-school hit, Rod connects his modern rap style to classic soul music. It basically shows that missing someone late at night is a feeling that never really changes.
(Can't you understand it?)
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I said what I be- I won't-
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When you be ready to come home from the club, what you be sayin'?
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(Girl, you know how much I care)
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I will not be leaving the club 'cause you here
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(It's not the way I planned it, no, no, no, no, no)
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(If you could only know my feelings)
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You don't miss me?
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(You would know how much I do believe)
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Mm-hm
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If you were here tonight, all night (yeah, yeah)
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What up?
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(By my side)
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(If you were with me now)
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Love, luh, uh
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Damn, baby, I miss you, wishing I could've kissed you
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Thug love hit different, passionate from the trenches
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I've been thinking 'bout our future, tell me am I tripping?
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It's the drugs I'm taking or the cup that I'm sipping?
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Who want war with us? Never been no victim
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Only war we lost is to the system
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Free all my brothers
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Girl, you're fine as hell, and your skin soft as butter
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I tell my bro "I love you, in your eyes I see trouble"
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You stay on my mind all the time
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Especially on my coldest lonely nights
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They saying that two wrongs don't make it right
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So I be going home all alone tonight
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'Cause I just wanna be the one that you trust
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I just wanna be the one, I won't judge
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The one that you call when you need some love
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The one that you call when you need me to pull up
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And I'm alone tonight, but I'm okay
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If you get lost tonight, you'll find your way
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Well, I hope you do
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I had high hopes for you
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I got lotta games that's being played, lot that's going down
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It's on 'til it's gone, then they got to know now
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Gotta have a piece of your love, baby
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Piece of your love
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Gotta have a piece of your love, baby
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Piece of your love
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Your love (piece of your love)
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(What up? I'm sayin' though)
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Your love (piece of your love)
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(It's like a lot of games that's being played, lot that's going down)
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Can I have a piece of your love, baby?
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(It's on 'til it's gone, then they got to know now)
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Ho-ho-ho-oh-oh (come and try and get me)
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Yeah, can I have a piece of your love, baby?
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A piece of your love
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Can I have a piece of your love, baby?
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Piece of your love
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Your love
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(Night moves in)
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Grah, you know
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Love takes on new meanings
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If you were here
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You would know what I mean to say
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But circumstance
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Leaves me only waiting
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For the chance
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I only want to love you more, more
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Can't you understand it?
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Girl, you know how much I care
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It's not the way I planned it, no, no, no, no, no
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If you could only know my feelings
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You would know how much I do believe
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