1 Love - Intellectual

[Hook 1: Steve Means]

And maybe we aren’t so different after all

And they're just the same as me and you

(I Need It, I, I, I Need it, I Need It)

We all need it

(I Need It, I, I, I Need it, I Need It)

One Love

(You Need It, You, You, You Need it, You Need It)

We all need it

(We Need It, We, We, We Need it, We Need It)

One unconditional love

[Verse 1: B. Cooper]

Through the eyes of a broken heart, nothing looks the same

In the streets, no sign and she ain’t begging for change

Give in to the addiction, living her life in vein

Introduction to the game, taught at a young age

By a man, that her worth was determined by what she gave

Now something meant for love is the way that she’s getting paid

Ain’t trying to change lanes, the road that’s she’s on is paved

Boulevard of broken dreams is normal up in her brain

Thoughts can’t be tamed, and she about to lose it

Life is a magician, she’s caught in an illusion

Make up and high heels cover up bruises

Opportunity gets drowned out by excuses

She ain’t choose it, but gotta live with it

The mind state of somebody who just wants to forget it

She blames herself, not knowing she’s already acquitted

So I put her story in a song, hoping she would hear it

[Hook 2: Steve Means and Corey Paul]

And maybe we aren’t so different after all

And they're just the same as me and you

(I Need It, I, I, I Need it, I Need It)

We all need it

(I Need It, I, I, I Need it, I Need It)

One Love

(You Need It, You, You, You Need it, You Need It)

We all need it

(We Need It, We, We, We Need it, We Need It)

One unconditional love (Corey Paul, Frontline!)

[Verse 2: Corey Paul]

About a year ago the Lord took her spouse

She think it was the devil though

Park her truck at the neighbor’s house

Cause Chevrolet trying to repo

One woman, raised two sons

And a nephew cause her niece locked

With good behavior and time served

He’ll be two when she get out

(If she make it that far)

Her money short, and her nerves bad

Ain’t combed her hair in 'bout three days

Cause her job said don’t come back

(If she make it that far)

Food low and she struggling

But she was raised in South Park

Know all too well about hustling

They took the truck, she got a cash car

It barely ran, but it run

Baby done ran every leg of this race

But now she on her last one

Hate just taking just one

Whole fistful of prescriptions

Dropped the kids at her mommas house

Gave custody to her sister

On the ledge, when the devil pushed her

That grace is sufficient

Not because of, but in spite of

Injected her with His spirit

Now my momma still living

Betty Baby you did it!

So I put your story in a song

I pray to God she hear it!

[Sample]

One thing we all need is love. And you can't always expect that from people, but you can always expect it from the most high God

[Hook]

(I Need It, I, I, I Need it, I Need It)

We all need it

(I Need It, I, I, I Need it, I Need It)

One Love

[Verse 3: B. Cooper]

This is the story of a child

Brought up in a two parent home, taught not to be wild

Fought not to be forgot in the ninth grade

That’d be the year that he’d find his place

Year that he’d find faith

Before that, not at all what you expected

Straight A’s in school, but the farthest from perfection

Like college applications, layups and bad breath is

He tried his best, but still surrounded by rejection

(Yeah) so he lived life in the background

Silence was his best friend, pen down, want to tap out

Give up on his life, in hindsight, looking back now

Never would have thought in a million years that he’d rap now

But I’m glad he never gave up

Three different worlds that all needed the same love

Same God to come to the world to save us

Wrote it in a song so I remember where I came from

[Hook]

And maybe we aren’t so different after all

And they're just the same as me and you

(I Need It, I, I, I Need it, I Need It)

We all need it

(I Need It, I, I, I Need it, I Need It)

One Love

We all need it

One unconditional love