I don’t write love songs
lyrics and vocals by Emcee Lynx
instrumental by AddingNumbers
The UnAmerican LP, 2004

I’ve been fiendin’ for you, since the day we first met
It’s like your mind’s a candle flame and my heart’s an insect
Yeah I’m attracted
It’s not a logical thing
But just looking at your face it makes my soul sing
And my stomach get knotted up tight in my gut
I’ve been thinkin’
You and I could just fly
I just want to hold you close to the day that I die
And you know I’m no good at playing these games
‘cuz to me, most relationships just seem insane
don’t want to own you
hold you down or control you
I just want to love you, I’m thinking of you
Every day, though we really don’t kick it
If my life is football then your lifestyle is cricket
Playing different games, by different rules
But we’re both in the struggle, can’t afford to lose
I know you want to get free at least as much as me
Fightin’ divisions of race, class, patriarchy
I mean we’ve been on the frontlines, hand in hand
And now I feel myself slippin’ runnin’ on quicksand

I don’t write love songs
I don’t write love songs
I really never write love songs
Especially now that the love’s gone

Goin’ back to your house, after the show
And I cook you dinner, let the evening flow
Kickin’ back conversatin’ over herbal tea
Give you a hug feel your heart beat next to me
But there’s somethin’ unsaid in the conversation
And we’re in the hot tub feelin’ the tension
Build
And now my guts get spilled
All my cards on the table hoping you won’t yield
To the temptation to leave me hangin’
Lovin you so much, I need a resolution
Now I know that a man is not supposed to cry
But I really can’t help it when you look in my eye
And you tell me you love me, but not like that
And I can feel my pulse pause like a heart attack
You’ve got your reasons, and in my mind I understand
But this pain pain in my chest is gainin the upper hand
And I
just don’t know what I’m supposed to do
we’ve been friends for a while, don’t want to lose that too
I play it cool, give you your time and space
Take some time for myself too, find a place
To put my love on the shelf, keep it behind glass
Find somethin’ clever to say for my friends when they ask

I don’t write love songs
I don’t write love songs
yeah I don’t write love songs
I don’t write love songs
I really never write love songs
Especially now that the love’s gone

So now I’m drivin’ on back from LA to the Bay
If I believed in a god then I would probably pray
For strength to hold me up when my mind is slippin
But I’m not that naïve so I keep from trippin
By holding on tight to you as a friend
Refocus my mind and just try to send
My thoughts out to you in this verse that I’m spittin
You’ve got your own path and I don’t want to get in
The way
Of what you’re tryin’ to do
But I hope now and then we can rendevous
And just kick it, chill, keep it real
Now at least both of us really know the deal
And may be your right and the pieces don’t fit
You’re a dready pagan hippy, I’m a hip hop militant
I’m not really your type, But that don’t mean I won’t miss you
So I hold you in my heart though I know I’ll never kiss you
And for real, I wish you nothing but the best
In life and in love and in all the rest
I don’t write love songs
I don’t write love songs
I really never write love songs
Especially now that the love’s gone
I don’t write love songs