[Verse 1:T-Kells] At the Time, She Was 23 From Up North, Newark New Jersey I Thought She Was Worthy Like James But Then She Dashed On Me Just Like Dam And I Thought It Was Meant To Be But When Stevie Wonder About Love It Kinda Gets Hard To See I Used To, Wear My Heart Up On My Sleeves Now, I Rolled Them Up, So I Don't Get Deceived So I've, Grown Cold, Like Ben and Jerry I'm Done Chasing, No More Tom and Jerry 808's and Heartbreak, Keep Your Love Lockdown Down, Down, Down, Down Should've Listened To Bel Biv and Devoe, Never Trust a big but and a Smile But At That Time I Thought It was Worth While In essence, gotta look at it as a blessing I Take it as a love lesson Hook: I Think I Understand it You Can't Just Give Ya Love Away No, You Can't Just Give Ya Love Away So, What I Learned At The Day… Is Take It As A Love Lesson Just Take It As A Love Lesson Just Take It as A Love Lesson ….Yeah [Verse 2:T-Kells] I Had another girl, who I talked to all the time At hours at a time, That's kinda hard to find But I didn't catch that she was talking about other guys on the phone I fooled around and got up in the friend zone But I still tried to make her my girlfriend And I never got my chance cause she was taken by then I thought I could get her back But then she told me, I Just don't see like that To Be honest, I didn't even listen To Make her my girlfriend was my main mission It was something about her that made her different She was a painter the way she drew my attention But we're still friends, It never did work And Until this day, It still kinda hurts In essence, I Look at it as a blessing
I take it as a love lesson Hook: I Think I Understand it You Can't Just Give Ya Love Away No, You Can't Just Give Ya Love Away So, What I Learned At The Day… Is Take It As A Love Lesson Just Take It As A Love Lesson Just Take It as A Love Lesson ….Yeah [Verse 3:Jay Treble] They Say Life Is The Greatest Teacher Love is the greatest treasure With every heartbreak, you learn another love lesson Man, wouldn't believe the messes I found myself in My first love, My heart had me beat from the start Chose her cause she was different Intellect kept my interest Skip to college and now she can't seem to find my deposits Found that joystick that's when she started playing games Left her with player 2 Link and Luigi Chase the Princess Who touched my life's song relationships on repeat Nicole I caught her slippin' textin' another n***a The nerve of this chick to try to play the role of victim Michelle, That's on me can't own a car without a title But you ain't have to test drive with another dealer Denise ain't have Verizon there was miscommunication Told her she could sign on and then she went and got T-Mobile Milly a roller coaster I ain't meet the height requirement Dang, Dang I Think I Finally Get It You Can Have The Perfect Picture But It Ain't The Same Image See You Can Have The Frame And He Can Have The Content She Gone Go With The Content Trying To Make A Picture Dang, Dang I Think I Finally Get It This Love Thing Is Serious It's really quite tricky But every time you fall With every heartbreak You got yourself another Love Lesson…Treble