Ja Rule — The Mirror Pain is Love

[Chorus: Stefanee Morrison] My life, my love Is it in vain or am I ashamed? Of what I came from or what I might become? Some say that love is pain, some believe pain is love My heart, my soul's yearning for your love's pain You need to get you some Come on and get you some Some people say love is pain Some believe that pain is love [Verse 1: Ja Rule] Yo, how could one ever know that I'm forgiven This bitterness and resentment Block the flow of God's blessings in life You know it's stressing me, right? Holding on in the hurt, (?) poison, them emotional scars And locked doors that shouldn't be open The lines is too thin like coke and cheap gin Like ghettos that turn good kids into gunmen, I'm wondering If all my niggas fall anything How the fuck we gon' stand for something? Impossible's nothing, when ya fucking with a nigga with a attitude 100 Miles and Runnin', like (?) and Cube Like Jesus to Judas The betrayal is nothing short of ruthless, I'll die before I pretend I had the power to exorcise, selfish all over (?) When I am, tempted to see the darker side of my life I reframe, from entering into traps of temptation But sometimes I gotta ask myself this question, Lord [Chorus: Stefanee Morrison] My life, my love Is it in vain or am I ashamed? Of what I came from or what I might become? Some say that love is pain, some believe pain is love My heart, my soul's yearning for your love's pain You need to get you some Come on and get you some Some people say love is pain Some believe that pain is love [Verse 2: Ja Rule (Stefanee Morrison)] My mind is playing tricks like, look but don't touch Touch but don't taste, taste but don't swallow No one's promised tomorrow But pray for the days to follow, I'm so confused to be honest Is my faith in the almighty or the almighty dollar? The father, the son A hundred to one, the bullet, the gun Kill somebody innocently that ya love In my lifetime I sold a whole lot of drugs And done even more, to ease the pain, the love's gone They say never say never, I say never get better (?) back, then back together Where there's pain there's pleasure Where there's pleasure there's hate No one hated me more than myself, it's hard to relate To someone you know so well, or so I thought Sometimes I look in the mirror, and see someone else There's two of me, but I'm by myself Ready to die, am I losing my mind? Then look in my eyes, and my question to God (My life, my love, is it in vain?) All reflections of pain, that's reluctant to change I'm transparent to love, I don't see the love in In reflection within I'm blind, then I close my eyes and Thank the Lord for every day that I rise My heart, my soul, my mind As long as I'm breathing, I'M ALIVE, the reason, I SURVIVE The pain throughout my life, it's called love [Bridge: Ja Rule (Stefanee Morrison)] Love is, love is Pain is, pain is Love is, love is Pain is, pain is [Chorus: Stefanee Morrison] My life, my love Is it in vain or am I ashamed? Of what I came from or what I might become? Some say that love is pain, some believe pain is love My heart, my soul's yearning for your love's pain You need to get you some Come on and get you some Some people say love is pain Some believe that pain is love [Outro: Ja Rule (Stefanee Morrison)] Love is, love is Pain is, pain is Love is, love is Pain is, pain is