[unknown singer]

Love is like water, flowin, flowin every which way

When you think it's flown one direction

It does, it does go the other way-ayyy-ayyy



[Grand Agent]

Ohhhhhhhhahhhhhh

End to end, end to end

Experience, experience, a new sensation



Some of this is factual, most of it ain't a lie

Two days before autumn, fifty-two after July

The sun shone bright, on time was her flight

Shot to LAX absolute, positive like

Only the shit-brown '82 Corrola could

Drive up inside arrivals, guess who lookin good

like five-six, archive thick, broad hips

I downshift and coast to the curb like word

She cheesin up while I easin up, double park

Throw the blinkers on, jump out, God bless her heart

Lookin like a tourist with the duffel and camera

Throw the bags in the back, we embrace then I slam the hatch

Right back where we left off

When we built for three weeks but then I stepped off

It just so happened, we met like ships passin

Rappin, no actual action

Now here she was live, all the way from back home 

Bodily counterpart to the voice over the phone

I spoke to for strong minutes, long distance

Even wrote a note with a quote of song in it

The bus thrust me sixty East of L.A.

The length to which I went to find words to say

3K, took me three days to get here

It took her six hours - that equal twenty-three years

Love won't let me wait a minute more

There's a bomb to the left of my passenger door

with a hundred-twenty hours to diffuse it or lose it

Got to need to relate to this queen like music

Or else, else or go from wealth to poor

Never that, take the prize and floor it to the shore

No small talk, give me a medium speech

We fitta slit the wrist the of time on Manhattan Beach



[Chorus: same unknown singer]

Love is like water, flowin

flowin every which way

When you think it's flown one direction, it done

it done flown the other way



[Grand Agent]

Said the flight was peace, said she happy to see me

Said she wanna check her aunt in the valley of Simi

Can't believe that she here, told I couldn't either

Right hand volleyin, gearshift receiver

Cause I play it by ear and she habitually plans

Twenty minutes we was parked fifty feet from the sand

Laid our troubles, down like bodies on the quilt

on the strand on September 21st and we built

Anatomical ebonics was the language

Speakin much silence cause we both thinkin bout the same shit

How we found ourselves back together

by a bond that was based solely on fair weather

Truth be told, we ain't even know each other

Tryin to prove that we did gave us somethin to show each other

And it can never be chumped again

We left the beach and jetted East towards the Comfort Inn

Sixty-two minute transit through Southern Cali

The hotel was near the rest in Moreno Valley

where I was stayin with a friend of the fam

who had made no concessions for a friend of the Grand

Agent at the front desk who checked us in

was Filipino, the housekeeper was Mexican

And, 217 was the room that she cleaned

After me and this queen has said and did everything

We traded baths, body massages, laughs

Future aspirations and accounts of the past

Quality time, probably rhyme material

The last breakfast: donuts, Tang, cereal

'Twas continental and the trip monumental

Did a gang of things coulda swore I wasn't into

But the swearin was impairin my ability

to give and receive love, plus humility



[Chorus]

Love is like water, flowin

flowin every which way

When you think it's flown one direction, it done

it done flown the other way

Love is like water, flowin

flowin every which way..



[Grand Agent]

Than real time, I was movin faster

On a stage, with no Ceremony to Master

But then saw the lights like the rest of my life

Just mics, no whores, imagine wives on tours

wit Momsug, Like yo, "How would you rather...?"

The cockiness to pop quiz Wiz didn't gather

Well not before she left anyway

But I feel like I can spill and reveal it any day

And never be too soon or too late

These thoughts and others, they run through me at the gate

while, she checkin bags bout to make her trip round

Back to a world minus me she was bound

And I was left behind to write this rhyme

It took time cause she bounced with a piece of my mind

Yeah, disappear she did, my new cohort

I was back on my solo and the whole airport

it felt vacant, I'm just another face in the pool

Now that my reflection is no more visible

Back to my MCI empty identity

I wrote before she bounced even like, "Remember me!"

Yeah whateva ya do, darlin do

Cause whateva ya did took me outta what I'm all into

Even had me second guessin my profession

Her presence like a lesson that inspired such questions

What the fuck am I still rhymin for?

If I ain't blow yet, I must got bad timin or

it ain't for me, could that possibly be?

I even lost a battle to a lesser MC

Being the fresher MC, I got my little pride hurt

for holdin the mic, like the body inside of the skirt

And practically gave the title away

Cause in a spell I would have to say, "L.A. farewell"



[Outro: same singer]

Love is like water, flowin

flowin every which way

When you think it's flown one direction, it done

it done flown the other way

Love is like water, flowin

flowin every which way

When you think it's flown one direction, it done

it done flown the other way

Love is like water, flowin

flowin every which way