I'm listenin'   Caught up in a web of deception   From this shit I done learned new lesson   So what cha do, you keep on playing, you play on, playa      From love to confusion   You keep getting but you keep losin'   So whatcha find comforting, your boozin', bosom   Heart brusin', I'm the one      From the high note to the low pains   You see destruction but no aftermath   Only voices you hear in your head   They all laugh, ha-ha, ha-ha, ha, yeah      From your denials to your delusions   Everything you gain you keep loson'   What you not know, this is an illusion   So what the hell you're doin'      He's looking and looking   He's looking and looking   He's looking and looking   He's looking at you, he's looking at me      He's looking and looking   He's looking and looking   He's looking at you, he's looking at me   He's looking at us, he's looking at we   Ah shit, he's lookin' at me      You wake up, baby boy, but you're not sleep   You test full but you're not it   You're running fast but you're not on your feet   And your speed is dead      You run along but you not know   You climb inside but you can't grow   Faster and faster until you fall to them floor   You screamed on but don't sing along      You work and work with no pay   You punch a clock but never end your day   You take vacation but your not playing   What we say by this time, here my friends, drink three   You cry, cry, revolution, but what you want is a solution   But you're more content with being a pollution   Jump in the motion, and ask the notion      He's looking and looking   He's looking and looking   He's looking at you, he's looking at me   He's looking at us, he's looking at we      He's looking and looking   He's looking and looking   He's looking at you, he's looking at me   He's looking at us, he's looking at we   Ah, looking      Self love, self preservation   Self love, self preservation   Self love, self preservation   Take a look at it      Self love, self preservation   Self love, self preservation   Self love, self preservation   He's looking at      Self love, self preservation   Self love, self preservation   Self love, self preservation   He's looking at, he's looking, looking and looking      Self love, self preservation   Self love, self preservation   Self love      L O V E, L O V E, love   L O V E, love, L O V E, love   Ya'll say, yeah      You know, L O V E, L O V E, love   L O V E, love, L O V E, love   Ya'll say, yeah      L O V E, L O V E, L O V E   Ya'll say, oh   L O V E, L O V E, L O V E   L O V E, L O V E, L O V E   Ya'll say, yeah      Self love, self preservation   Self love, self preservation   Self love, self preservation   He's looking at, he's looking at      Self love, self preservation   Self love, self preservation      If you don't like your job   Maybe, you should quit stop being a bitch and love yourself   If you believe things can work out easily   I'm telling you if you don't like what your mama's telling you   Then be a grown man and stand up on your own two and love yourself      And if your girlfriend's on welfare   Then baby, walk away, you don't have to care and love yourself   And if standing on the corner and pushing them rocks up in your socks   Ain't what you want to do tonight then, love yourself      L O V E, L O V E, yo   L O V E, L O V E, yo      He's looking at L O V E   He's looking at L O V E   He's looking at L O V E   Love yourself      What I'm tryin' to tell you here is   Life it passes you by   And if you don't get up off your ass   I'm telling you, it's gonna fly, the time's gonna fly      And you'd find yourself about fifty years old   Sittin' on a porch with your grand kids   But you know what, man, you ain't got shit to tell      You still live in that same-old bullshit-ass reality   That was passed on down to you by your family   From generation to generation to generation to generation   And you ain't got shit, man, you sure fucked up      All right, it's real simple   I mean, this is for anybody, any age, man   Get up off your ass, forget the past   And remember that the future is the only thing that you fuckin' got   So run with that shit      Shit, it's that simple, ain't it? Yeah   Love yourself, believe in yourself   Be true to yourself, be you for yourself, do you?   Caught up in a web of deception   From this shit I done learned new lesson   Work and work with no pay   Punch a clock but never end your day, yeah      You run along but you not know   You climb inside but you can't grow   You cry, cry, cry, revolution   But there is no solution   'Cause you're the pollution, yeah   Caught up in a web of deception   Nigga, learn your lesson