TAKES A VILLAGE Lyrics

Yeah it takes a village to raise a child you make a case all alone

If I could build up my kingdom and put your face on a note

She basically told lies, on top of lies, she came for your throne

What good is all my accusations when they're based off of those

This shit ain't safe when we grown, quick disappeared

You left without a single trace in the cold

And it don't count as face to face on the phone

Last time I heard you was in the states by the coast

In a foreign place on your own, I get it

You needed to leave for the stage that you own

Even if I knew you would I prayed that you won't

But now it's flipped I'll tell you this, "look bitch you ain't coming home"

And I don't say shit to boast, don't get complacent you chose

That life you changed for the most, now I think

Was you right when you said that I've wasted our moment

And I won't claim that I know it

I'm on my fake shit I'm hoping

That you crawl back to me

Crawl back to me, tragedy

Actually so sad to see

What if that was supposed to be but I ruined my chance

You looked at me from on the floor but I didn't go dance

Like why the hell would I go for it, and risk looking so bad

If you and me was meant to be I know I ruined our chance

Fuck it wish I was the one who took it

I struggle to pick it apart, how you left me so brisk in the dark

Or maybe I left myself back there and I just forgot

You seem to go wherever I'm not

But I know that we'd talk if you came to the block

You like a full court when ain't shit on the clock

It takes a city to fuck a child you make a case all alone

I can't lie I'd kill an empire just to save you from Rome

But knowing you, you just might betray me for dough

All these decisions that you've made on your own

I swear you're talented but your brains gotta go

A deer in headlights and you held me by the reins in the snow

Stuck there it felt like I went lame couldn't grow

But it's for you that I would stay in the cold

Still if you ain't perfect then you very fucking close

Your friends thinking I'm this and that, we barely even spoke

I can play dumb but I'm fairly in the know

You are what I lost but you stay winning

I wonder if there's a broken heart for every country you been in

When you need to be fixed, come back to the village, yeah