Lyrics Brother Ali

Brother Ali

It Ain't Easy

I did it again, huh? Yeah I know

I'm writing you a song though

It goes something like this...

You say one love, you can't unlove

I don't know what it is you're trying to run from

Like you just, you're trying to unfriend me in real life

I want it all real, nothing fake please

I don't want to wonder what your handshake means

I don't need to say everything I think I must

My ego's trying to ruin everything I touch

What I mean though or what my point is

That you're much more important than my point is

If I win an argument and lose your heart Lord

I hit the bullseye on the wrong dart board

I want to thank everyone for being patient with me

It's a journey that I'm on, I pray you take it with me

And to quote myself that's what this is about

"We live learn and figure it out"

Oh my God now...

It ain't easy when it's real

Just don't leave because I still need your patience

And hear me when I say this

It ain't easy when it's real

In my heart you know I feel

All your greatness and baby we can make it

I want the real love, not the false kind

Not the one that need perfectness at all times

When it seems most difficult to keep me close

Is probably the time that I need you most

I let you down though, I didn't mean to

Even the people who try, we get weak too

And when you said we were family, I believed you

Because I needed so bad for it to be true

Now is my heart that way? Would I try to betray?

Is there any such thing as an honest mistake?

If what you need and what I have don't match

That's when we need the love thing to fill those gaps up

It ain't easy when it's real

Just don't leave because I still need your patience

And hear me when I say this

It ain't easy when it's real

In my heart you know I feel

All your greatness and baby we can make it

(Tryna save the world, right?)

I'm a hot mess and if I'm honest

It's not just one event but a process

If I'm tryna get out here and protest

Let me first save the world from my foolishness

Let me guard my heart from its harshness

Try to rid my truth of its falseness

If your beauty is closer than an arms length

You'd be hard pressed to tell me that it's far fetched

I know I hurt you though, you took it personal

But what's love if the essence isn't merciful?

And I see no need for us to live with regrets

I'd rather just forgive and forget

Oh my God now

It ain't easy when it's real

Just don't leave because I still need your patience

And hear me when I say this

It ain't easy when it's real

In my heart you know I feel

All your greatness and baby we can make it

I was thinking maybe not debate politics in the pool

Nah, just because it's your daughter's birthday party, you know

No, I feel you

Yeah, word up, email me about that

You said one love, you can't unlove

I don't know what it is you're trying to run from

You said one love, you can't unlove...

Trying to run from...