Hate Is Not Love

Intro

Hate is not love, oh-oh, hey

Hate is not love, (no) hate is not love, yeah

Uh-huh, ah-ah, woah (woah)

Hate is not love, hate is not love

Verse

You wore your anger like a badge, like armor in the rain

Said you wanted something real, but you kept breaking the frame

I sat across the table, counting lies like loose change

You mix venom with the velvet, call it chemistry, strange

I tried to hold the pieces, but some things don't belong

When the kindness turns to counting scars, that's the first wrong song

I ain't here to fix your storms, I learned how to close the door

You can shout it till it hurts, but I won't answer war

Pre-chorus

You confuse the sting for heat, you confuse the push for need

I won't trade my peace for drama, I won't fall for that misread

No more wearing bruises like a medal on my chest

If it ain't love, let it go — that's the only test

Chorus

Hate is not love, hate is not love, (no) hate is not love, yeah

Hate is not love, hate is not love, (no) hate is not love, yeah

Don't call cold a kind of caring, don't call pain a kind of proof

Hate is not love, hate is not love, (hey) hate is not love

Hate is not love, hate is not love, (nah) hate is not love, yeah

Hate is not love, hate is not love, (let it go) hate is not love

Verse

I clock the tired lines: apologies with no shape

Promises like empty frames, photos left to fade

You say it's intensity, I say it's imbalance

You pull me into static fights, then act surprised when it collapses

I walked through your thunder, learned how to walk away from blows

I found my voice in quiet rooms where something steady grows

You crave collisions like collisions crave the crash

But I choose steady sunrise over dramatic ash

verse - rap

Yo, I flipped the script on the remix, new vibe, new premise, listen

Hate masquerades as love — that's the sickness, I'm dismissin'

Skrrt, cut through the noise like a tag on a fresh beat

You stuntin' on the low while you preach about being sweet, ayy

Toxic in designer words, diamonds with a jagged edge

You say you want forever but you're building fences at the ledge

I saw patterns in your elbows where the anger always folds

Counting trophies made of friction, trophies made of cold

I'm not a punching bag, nah, I'm a mirror in the sun

Your shadow keeps on pointing out where you think I come undone

But I rise like a chorus in a room that they never knew

Turn your tirade to a lesson, now the lesson's overdue, woo

You try to gaslight the skyline, paint the truth in smoke

I call receipts on the soundtrack, watch your alibis choke

Love ain't a battlefield, don't dress it in fatigues

If you wear contempt as language, then you got no analog for peace

I learned the law of walking off when the argument's a play

I don't sign my name to anger — I erased it, clear away

Hate is not love, that's the banner that I bring

So if you're carrying a knife disguis