| I said I wasn’t gonna write this but I feel Iike it could help somebody
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| Yeah, uh
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| I love my pops but my hair don’t brush the same
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| Sixteen, my momma heavy in the trailer, yeah
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| Sixteen, two kids, that’s hella pain
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| She’s sixteen, he can’t afford it
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| Momma told her to abort it
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| Thank God that wasn’t the story, yeah
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| When I’m runnin', ain’t no starve, yeah
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| Half-white, I was born losin', lost half of my family
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| And I ain’t even choosin'
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| In the trailer, I was hangin' with Guatemalans
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| When my cousin started seein' all the poverty
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| My momma cheat, my daddy cold, he beat his kids up
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| My momma leave, my daddy leave, they leave the kids, yeah
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| I told the doctor that I fell on the table like it was comin'
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| DCF came to the crib, we lied, said ain’t no problems
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| Ain’t tellin' they be fightin', cuttin' off the lights
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| I watch my momma stab my daddy in the side with a knife
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| I be wantin' to leave and run away, I wanna die
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| Could you spare me some advice?
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| 'Cause it’s a lot, too much for eyes, yeah
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| I wanna die
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| 'Cause it’s a lot so could you spare me some advice? |
| Hella drama at the crib, yeah
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| (Fear fightin' at the crib, I did something)
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| Street fightin' at the crib, yeah
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| (When they came at me, I ain’t wanna live)
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| I was tryin' a little hard, I was goin' through it
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| All the pressure, all the pain, I ain’t really wanna live
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| Fear fightin' at the crib, yeah
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| Make 'em wanna quit hard, let them fight for this
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| Pop Warner, I was playin' for the Rebels on the Peewee
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| My momma was cheatin' on the same field we was playin'
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| My pops tried to kill him, but they was cheatin' right and left
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| She never left her life, but I couldn’t swallow how she left
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| Told the dude with some money, left her kids in the process
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| My daddy got to my dome
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| I should have known all the things that he told me when I was twelve years old,
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| made me hate her
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| He made me choose sides and it was grimy
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| We was walkin' home from school and my little sister cryin'
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| I was fightin' at school and spent years in suspension
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| Got kicked, got jawed, started stealin', gettin' with it
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| (Nah, I ain’t still gettin' with it) |
| When I got home, he would beat us, my pops worked at the jail
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| Told me, «Strip» and beat my ass, handcuffed me to the rails, yeah
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| I wanna get away, I feel this gravity
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| Beat me with his belt until I’m grabbin' it
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| My momma gone, my daddy got these women in the crib
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| They be movin' in and they kids
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| For a second, then it end
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| Care about nothin' but playin' ball
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| And my momma didn’t call, so I don’t really wanna talk
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| My daddy losin' me, I got no respect for him
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| We’re beefin' every day
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| The school callin' and now the drama brewin'
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| I hate my house, I want out, I stay out late
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| I come home and ain’t no food in the fridge, nobody ate
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| Tenth grade, we was fightin', then he kicked me to the streets
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| I was young, I was dumb, full of anger, dead to me
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| Spit in my face, threw my clothes in the yard
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| I got to steppin'
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| Lived with my grandma, I got to steppin'
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| Hella drama at the crib, yeah (Ooh)
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| Street fightin' in the crib, yeah (Ooh)
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| I was tryin' a little hard, I was goin' through it
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| All the pressure, all the pain, I ain’t really wanna live |
| Fear fightin' at the crib, yeah
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| Make 'em wanna quit hard, let them fight for this
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| Fast-forward, I’m a father, still got anger inside
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| I love my kids and I don’t ever want to see them hate me
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| But I’ve got ways like my daddy and it frustrates me
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| All I see was broken relationships
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| Now me and my wife strugglin'
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| Will we make the decisions they made or learn from them?
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| I grew up without a God, how could I leave Him out now?
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| I feel empty without him, what would I ever go that route?
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| Pride got me in my feelings, fightin' and arguin'
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| Being hard for no reason, ti-tic-tac arguments
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| Bein' selfish, I swear I got no room to judge
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| That mirror get foggy, can’t see myself or feel the love
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| And I hurt hella people in the process
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| Fightin' for the piece that gives my soul joy
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| God, be the difference that makes me different
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| I told my wife I got things I might never share
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| I don’t want what I grew up in, but we headin' there
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| I know my daughter hear and see it at all
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| I don’t want her to witness what I went through |
| Or what I did
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| But I can’t lie, I be failin'
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| This joint hard
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| Is that the reason why my momma left?
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| All this frustration, is that the reason why my daddy is?
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| I know God can help us together but how you make that real?
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| Gotta fight the steel floor, I wanna make that real
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| My momma’s here
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| And what you do with the love that you gave me?
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| You forgave me and brought Hilly
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| And saw me in live in it |