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Didn't I tell you to get your tail up out of that bed |
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And get ready to go to church? |
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You can't lay there and sleep all day |
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You gotta go to church! |
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Uh, what's a nigga in America? |
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Why the **** is we here? |
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Why you tell me go back where I'm from |
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When you dragged me here? |
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Why we born to be poor? |
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Why our fathers be gone? |
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Why my father forsake us? |
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Why my momma so strong? |
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And on my momma I'd kill ya |
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On Faris, I'd kill ya |
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Nigga we were so broke, split 20 dollars a weekend |
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I, never cried but I realized what we were missing |
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My mind had a nigga on edge, I started sellin' and cheatin' |
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Said **** the government, **** the man |
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**** the Feds, **** the law |
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See Que was ****in my girl, too ****in hungry to care |
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I started sellin mo', thinking bout Zip |
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Thinking what I did, ****ed her friend |
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****ed her homie, then ****ed again |
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I started sippin on liquor |
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Couldn't cope wit the changes |
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We went back to the hood |
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Started slanging and bangin' |
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Feds was outside my house |
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Second time we got raided |
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Everything was for you |
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I want to get you that coupe |
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Black and young and a **** up |
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I wanna prove this to you |
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That I could be more than a boy |
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But a father with you |
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I, wish I could change |
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But God you made me this way |
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So I'm gon keep my faith high |
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And bow my head and just pray |
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Like this |
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Lord Lord, I need, your help, Lord |
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Lord Lord, I need, your help, Lord |
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I was so young and dumb |
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You were so young and dumb |
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Allan was in the picture |
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I was gon' pop dat nigga |
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Celebrity status now |
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You in a wedding gown |
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You was gon' be my wife |
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Move to a newer life |
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Tried to make dreams with you |
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Still I'm so proud of you |
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Look at the woman from a girl a flower blossomed too |
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The prettiest of them all |
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You was gon' have it all |
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You was gon' have the mall |
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But you still got it all |
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Shower you wit' some poems |
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Shower you wit' some songs |
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Remember the drawing I made? |
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Remember the flowers I gave? |
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Remember the time that we spent? |
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Remember the time that we missed? |
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Don't let that happen again |
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Go find you a better man |
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And go have that baby boy |
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And make him a better man |
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Tell him his mother loves him |
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Just like she used to love me |
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And play him this tape for you |
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Tell him what we been through |
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So we can both raise that child like we promised, we would do |