[00:00.00] 作曲 : Charles Stewart
[00:03.33][Chorus]
[00:04.38]The righteous way to go
[00:08.31]Little one would know
[00:10.50]Or believe if I told him so
[00:15.09]The righteous way to go
[00:19.17]Little one would know
[00:21.24]Or believe if I told him so
[00:24.78][Verse 1]
[00:26.67]Through fights with mom and long nights you're gone
[00:29.22]Through all types of wrong, I love my pops
[00:32.25]Through penitentiary drug addiction and misery
[00:34.59]You defeated the enemy, I love my pops
[00:37.32]Twenty some odd years wiping my little sister's tears
[00:40.29]She missed dad, but where was my pops?
[00:42.90]Too proud to tell us he was running from his demons
[00:45.21]And we're thinking that nothing could ever budge my pops
[00:48.27]But I used to wonder what put my moms under
[00:50.46]My pops and kept 'em together for seventeen summers
[00:53.70]I reminisce in my mind me and my pops would find
[00:56.40]The time we spent it never seemed funner
[00:58.62]But I remember the day that he left, him and my mama
[01:01.71]They never nurtured their relationship, and it went
[01:04.32]From Bonnie and Clyde to problems with money and pride
[01:07.05]Together they couldn't decide...
[01:08.40][Chorus]
[01:08.67]The righteous way to go
[01:12.57]Little one would know
[01:14.79]Or believe if I told him so
[01:19.38]The righteous way to go
[01:20.25]Little one would know
[01:25.50]Or believe if I told him so
[01:28.29][Verse 2]
[01:30.87]Through parental separation and miscommunication
[01:33.54]I love my mama more than I love myself
[01:36.15]Along with grandmamma they played my two parents
[01:38.73]So you know I love them more than I love myself
[01:41.70]In and out of prison for stealing, illegally making a living
[01:44.73]But she taught me how to love myself
[01:47.04]Pops wasn't there to teach me 'bout the man inside
[01:50.01]I had to learn who he was myself
[01:52.59]I was the man of the house so my younger siblings
[01:55.17]Looked up to me as the father that they never had
[01:57.87]Resentful of the fact my sister would talk smack
[02:00.69]And call him "sperm donor", but never call him "dad"
[02:03.21]It's sad, I know it gets lonely for my only brother
[02:05.82]Cause him and his father never really got to know each other
[02:09.06]And those days I vowed for sure
[02:10.83]If I ever had a child, I would choose...
[02:12.63][Chorus]
[02:12.96]The righteous way to go
[02:16.86]Little one would know
[02:19.08]Or believe if I told him so
[02:29.40]The righteous way to go
[02:29.91]Little one would know
[02:30.33]Or believe if I told him so
[02:34.98][Verse 3]
[02:35.49]I became a parent at the age of twenty-one
[02:37.47]With no doubts or questions cause I love my son
[02:40.47]I fell for a woman same name as my mama
[02:42.99]Maintained heavy drama, but I love my son
[02:46.32]Eleven years of love, lies and fears
[02:48.33]Closed our eyes and ears, but because my son had
[02:51.42]Nothing to do with the reason we would fight for days
[02:54.24]We kept it together to raise my son
[02:56.88]In the beginning, we would ditch school to see each other
[02:59.49]She quit school and ran away so we could be together
[03:02.19]Before I got paid for working my tongue
[03:04.29]The greatest moment that we shared was the birth of my son
[03:06.99]Another eight years passed till the day that I left
[03:09.66]And why's that? We never nurtured our relationship
[03:12.36]And it went bust and die cause of problems with trust and pride
[03:15.63]Together we couldn't decide (the righteous way)
[03:17.94][Chorus]
[03:22.56]The righteous way to go
[03:26.52]Little one would know
[03:28.71]Or believe if I told him so
[03:44.01]The righteous way to go
[03:45.09]Little one would know
[03:45.48]Or believe if I told him so