I know that you love it when I call you "baby"
Pedal to the floor, you know I drive you crazy
You're like a painted picture, girl you hypnotize me
You should know why I get that way when I'm next to your body
And you know that I can't do this on my own
We both done had our shares of rights and wrongs
Remember when I called you "baby"?
Do you?

Well, it is what it is
I did what I did
No regrets that were made
Adult, teen or a kid
But I still feel like we got somehing
Every since we met in 2000...something, I can't remember
But what I do recall is every time you call, you always pissing me off
I said I was hard, you always knew I was soft
A lot of up and downs but I wouldn't trade it at all
And you know what they say, patience is a virtue
And without it I wouldn't have made it here
A lot of people started from the bottom, now they at the top
But for some reason, I'm still not there (yet)
And you can bet I'm still grinding, no whining, no time to FaceTime
But from time to time, I still see your face though
If we can get it back together, we should take it slow
Yeah, if we can make this thing work, we should take it slow

I never meant to make you feel like you were not missed
But I guess it's all the same
I had a couple of mishaps with misfits, exchanged tongues then digits
On joyrides and field trips then I'm all up in my feel trips
If you said that, you meant it
And what I say back, you dismiss it
Keep building your defenses but I won't beg for your attention
What's your mission, my intentions were not to force you to listen
Now we're kissing and it's like it never happened to begin with

Now we spring forward, we saving daylight, holding on tight and getting stronger
Then we fall back in our last quarter, the days are shorter and the nights are longer
And it's so dark that it absorbs light, like a black hole on the event horizon
And we're at the point of no return and there's no point of us even trying
So we single on the low, fronts that we put on, money that we blown, tryna make it out here on own
You might've gone and found someone and they good to call you "lady"
But it ain't like that first time, the first time that I called you "baby"
For real