When You Hate To Love
K-Rino Lyrics

She was prefect growing up angelic beyond clean
She was perfect growing up, always doing the right things and maintaining a high level of cleanliness and purity

Met a fella got took fast dreams abolished
She met a guy who took advantage of her quickly, and this caused her dreams to be destroyed

Introduce her to drugs, sophomore year in college
The guy introduced her to drugs during her second year of college

Dropped out back in the hood the streets sweep her
She dropped out and went back to her old neighborhood, where she became a victim of the streets

Momma let her back in the house thought she could help her
Her mother allowed her to come back home, thinking she could help her get back on track

To some it seemed crazy but trusting her seemed dumber
Some people might have thought her mother was crazy for trusting her daughter, but not trusting her may have been even worse

As soon as she went to sleep started stealing cash from her
As soon as she went to sleep, she would steal money from her mother

Gone three or four days straight no sunshine
She would go missing for three or four days at a time, with no sign of her whereabouts

Selling what was left of her body for one dime
She resorted to selling her body for very little money

Told her mother she was rehabbing but she was lying
She lied to her mother, telling her she was going to rehab when she really wasn't

Whenever she came around she burned her each time
Every time she came around, she caused pain and hurt to her mother

One night she was walking the street roaching for bread
One night she was so desperate that she was walking the streets, looking for food

They raped beat her up real bad left her for dead
She was brutally attacked and left for dead by some unknown people

Stumbled to her mother's house once more this time she said
She went back to her mother's house, but this time she said something different

"I love you but you can't come in I'll pray for you" and shut the door
She told her mother she loved her, but couldn't let her in, and instead prayed for her from behind the door

Sometimes you hate to love
Sometimes it's hard to keep loving someone when they keep hurting you

Cause it's such a confusing thing
It's confusing because you don't want to give up on someone you love, but they keep causing you pain

How can something that's made for us
Love is supposed to be a good thing, something that's made for us to enjoy

Turn around and cause us pain
But sometimes love can also cause us a lot of pain

Sometimes the greatest love
Sometimes the love that hurts the most is the greatest kind of love

Is the kind that hurts the most
Because it's the love that hurts us the most that we truly care about

But when it seems it's far away
When it feels like love is far away, it's actually closer than we think

That's the time it's really close
Because it's during the tough times that our love is truly tested, and we become closer as a result

The next story is the deepest of all it gets harder
The next story is the hardest one to hear

A single mother living alone with a young daughter
A single mother was living with her young daughter

A new dude comes into the picture and brings order
A new man comes into their lives and brings some structure and stability

Becomes the perfect man a provider and step-father
He becomes the perfect man, providing for them and acting as a loving step-father

But when the mother left him alone the worst happened
But when the mother left her daughter alone with him, something terrible happened

He would do thing to this child no one ever imagined
He would do unspeakable things to this innocent child

Defenseless against this and robbed of her innocence
The child was helpless and had her innocence taken away from her

Permanent scars lifelong nightmarish remembrance
She would carry the scars of this for the rest of her life, haunted by the memories

Inside her, nothing would ever be like things were
This experience changed her life forever, and she could never go back to the way things were

Never told a soul scared that her mother would blame her
She never told anyone what happened, afraid that her mother would blame her

Cause he told that in daily more reserve she became
Because the man told her that no one would believe her, she became more reserved and closed off

The mood of the household started to feel strange
There was a strange feeling in the air, and the mood of the household became more tense

Mother's intuition kicked in she discovered what it was
The mother's intuition kicked in and she finally discovered what had been going on

Found an under gourmet in the clothes hamper spotted with blood
She found an underwear in the laundry hamper with blood on it, and knew something was horribly wrong

Ran in her daughter's room demanded answers at once
She ran into her daughter's room and demanded to know what had been happening to her

The child broke down and told her what's been happening for months
The child finally broke down and told her mother what had been happening to her for months

Left her feeling like she failed to protected child from harm
The mother was left feeling like she had failed to protect her child from harm

When the man returned home, the police was waiting for him
The police were waiting for the man when he returned home, and he was arrested for his crimes

Gave up the love she thought that she had but meanwhile
The mother had to give up the love she thought she had with this man, but in the meantime

She gotta painfully attempt to repair her broken child
She had to painfully try to help her broken child heal from the trauma she had experienced