Lupe Fiasco

Released: February 10, 2017

Featuring: Salim

Songwriter: Salim Lupe Fiasco

Producer: B-Sides SIMON SAYZ (Producer)

[Intro: Salim]
Oh no
Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]
What if I said, love was a lie though?
It was more like hate with a eye closed
And the other eye, had the eye rolled
That's contempt and ignorance, I know
But what do I know?
Only thing that I seen was the inside, of a blindfold
And you just as blind as me
So how I look? Askin' you where do I go
Eye and I keep high hope alive though
That love's not a lie it just likes to lie low
Likes to hide right there in plain sight
And you got to find it with your eyes, closed
And in the dark, you see the part
Of your partner that's the heart
If you die, it's like apartheid, we can bring it back to the, start

[Hook: Salim]
It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)
No, it's not designed to make you feel love
It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)
Oh no, yeah

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
On second thought, leave apartheid in the grave
But the heart part, that can be saved
The hard part's makin' sure it don't break
Into little sharp pieces that are hard to replace
Hard to find spare arteries these days
In decent shape and know things'll decay
And at these rates you're gon' need to be paid
Like three-ty ways just to see D. Wade
To the place that sells these parts
That you couldn't keep safe from the stee-art
So why would we waste our art on your mistake
When you was drivin' reckless? Didn't pump the brakes
Hate to have to shoot you down
A fine runnin' heart makes a soothin' sound
It's junkyard love in your future, pal
Didn't appreciate it then, bet you do, now

[Hook: Salim]
It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)
On no no!
It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)
Oh oh oh, yeah, hey baby
It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)
Noooo baby
It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)
Never gonna make you feel, nooo, babe

[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]
And in the futuristic
Love will be reduced to physics
Computer digits made by robots
That use statistics, algorithms and group logistics
The mood-resistant
Downloadable thing that's used specific
Easily updated with few commitments
Can find its way home if you forget it
Say, maybe on a starship tour
Heard a knock at your starship door
It was the girl that you had met at the starship bar
Had a dance on the starship floor
But then you got starship sick
So you had to run to the starship store
And then you got those starship pills
But when you back, she wasn't there no more
She says, "Hope you got a starsuit at the starship store
Maybe we can take a trip
To take a look at the stars around parsec 4"
And it was the most beautiful thing
You both had ever seen in your lives before
And she pulled out her love
So you reached down in your starsuit for
But your pockets empty now the moments passed
And it'll probably never happen like this again
I guess it didn't work out for you in the, end

[Hook: Salim]
It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)
On no no, yeah a-yeah
It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)
Not designed! Not designed baby! Hoo, hoo baby
It's not designed to make you feel that way, now, baby (oh no)
It's not designed to make you feel that way, now, baby (oh no)
Not designed! Not designed! No no no no no no no oh

[Outro: Salim]
Oh oh
No no, baby
Hoo hoo, ahh, baby

The Chicago born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco first tasted success when he featured on Kanye West’s hit “Touch the Sky”, a track that shortly preceded his real breakout, his 2006 debut album Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor, and he never looked back. He has established himself as one of the greatest urban wordsmiths of all time, with Genius even dubbing him the ‘Proust of Rap’.

While he’s now regarded of one of the 21st Century’s Hip-Hop greats, he wasn’t always a fan of the genre, initially disliking it due to the prominence of vulgarity and misogyny within it. In his late teens, he aspired to make it as a lyricist. In his early twenty’s, he met Jay-Z, who helped him sign with Atlantic Records in 2005. The following year, he released his debut album (Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor), which was met with acclaim from fans and critics alike, as did his sophomore effort, Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool.

The following eight years of his career saw far less output than many would’ve anticipated. This can be partly attributed to his struggles with Atlantic Records. The executives wanted him to sign a 360 deal; however, as he refused to do so they instead shelved his already completed 3rd album, Lasers, and wouldn’t promote him as they had previously. The overseers at the label also interfered with his music (as they had tried to do with his fan-favorite track “Dumb it Down”); subsequently effecting the quality and sound of his third and fourth albums.

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