Southside winters freeze-dry promises to powder
Her Instagram love's just filtered debt I'm plowed under
You want candlelit dinners? 79th Street got dollar tacos
Our trust fund's a scratch-off ticket,maybe hit tomorrow
City Hall weddings need bail bonds for confetti
Your I do got more clauses than my probation paperwork heavy
We slow-dance to the rhythm of UIC tuition rising
Every kiss got sales tax,10.25% compromising
You say I'm cold like the L train in December
But your love's a vending machine,insert surrender
Want my heart? Swipe your pride, let's transact
In this concrete garden where roses attack
Love ain't free-e-e
Pay in tears or pay in blow
From the Gold Coast to Section 8
Every touch comes with a rate interest accumulates
Love ain't free-e-e
Cash or blood, your choice to flow
If my heart's a corner store
Baby, you still owe me more
We used to share CTA passes like they were vows
Now you want diamonds
Girl, this ain't Jewelers Row
Your therapist says communicate,that's code for cash advance
Our romance got more fees than ComEd utility dance
You quote Bell Hooks while I'm quoting unemployment lines
Our bed's a courtroom where minimum wage gets tried
Even the rats in our walls demand rent negotiation
This love's a gentrified condo,forced renovation
Oooh-ooooh, transactional ecstasy
Oooh-ooooh, capitalist melody
Oooh-ooooh, swipe your card through my veins
Oooh-ooooh, till the repo man comes again
Can we be pure like 1999?
Before Rahm Emanuel shut down all the mental health lines
Let's escape to Montrose Beach
Where they charge $20 just to breathe
We'll meet where the redline kisses the blue line
Debating if love's a right or a corporate guideline
In this town even Cupid carries a receipt book
Love ain't free
But God, let's steal just one look
We'll meet where the redline kisses the blue line
Debating if love's a right or a corporate guideline
In this town even Cupid carries a receipt book
Love ain't free
But God, let's steal just one look