It's Not Design

## Song by Lupe Fiasco featuring Salim

"**It's Not Design**" is a song by Lupe Fiasco, released as the twelfth track from his sixth studio album, *Drogas Light* (2017). It features Salim on the hook.

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro: Salim]

Oh no

Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]

What if I said, love was a lie though?

It was more like hate with a eye closed

And the other eye, had the eye rolled

That's contempt and ignorance, I know

But what do I know?

Only thing that I seen was the inside, of a blindfold

And you just as blind as me

So how I look? Askin' you where do I go

Eye and I keep high hope alive though

That love's not a lie it just likes to lie low

Likes to hide right there in plain sight

And you got to find it with your eyes, closed

And in the dark, you see the part

Of your partner that's the heart

If you die, it's like apartheid, we can bring it back to the, start

[Hook: Salim]

It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)

No, it's not designed to make you feel love

It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)

Oh no, yeah

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

On second thought, leave apartheid in the grave

But the heart part, that can be saved

The hard part's makin' sure it don't break

Into little sharp pieces that are hard to replace

Hard to find spare arteries these days

In decent shape and know things'll decay

And at these rates you're gon' need to be paid

Like three-ty ways just to see D. Wade

To the place that sells these parts

That you couldn't keep safe from the stee-art

So why would we waste our art on your mistake

When you was drivin' reckless? Didn't pump the brakes

Hate to have to shoot you down

A fine runnin' heart makes a soothin' sound

It's junkyard love in your future, pal

Didn't appreciate it then, bet you do, now

[Hook: Salim]

It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)

On no no!

It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)

Oh oh oh, yeah, hey baby

It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)

Noooo baby

It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)

Never gonna make you feel, nooo, babe

[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]

And in the futuristic

Love will be reduced to physics

Computer digits made by robots

That use statistics, algorithms and group logistics

The mood-resistant

Downloadable thing that's used specific

Easily updated with few commitments

Can find its way home if you forget it

Say, maybe on a starship tour

Heard a knock at your starship door

It was the girl that you had met at the starship bar

Had a dance on the starship floor

But then you got starship sick

So you had to run to the starship store

And then you got those starship pills

But when you back, she wasn't there no more

She says, "Hope you got a starsuit at the starship store

Maybe we can take a trip

To take a look at the stars around parsec 4"

And it was the most beautiful thing

You both had ever seen in your lives before

And she pulled out her love

So you reached down in your starsuit for

But your pockets empty now the moments passed

And it'll probably never happen like this again

I guess it didn't work out for you in the, end

[Hook: Salim]

It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)

On no no, yeah a-yeah

It's not designed to make you feel that way now, baby (oh no)

Not designed! Not designed baby! Hoo, hoo baby

It's not designed to make you feel that way, now, baby (oh no)

It's not designed to make you feel that way, now, baby (oh no)

Not designed! Not designed! No no no no no no no oh

[Outro: Salim]

Oh oh

No no, baby

Hoo hoo, ahh, baby