[00:22.92]Look at my life
[00:24.39]Look at my pain
[00:25.95]Look at my tears
[00:27.03]These tears I shed
[00:28.65]I feel so alone, with nobody to talk to
[00:31.59]Cuz of the days that I spend without you
[00:34.65]It's like you're here, but you're gone (but you're gone)
[00:36.90]You're here, but you're gone (but you're gone)
[00:40.20]It's like you're here, but you're gone (but you're gone)
[00:43.92]And you're gone, gone, gone, gone away
[00:47.28]I know you're working, I appreciate your grind
[00:49.68]You give me everything I need, but I really want your time (I want your time)
[00:53.19]I must confess, it's hard to express how I'm feeling
[00:55.44]But I'm growing blocks of bitterness, quickly becoming buildings
[00:58.50]Listen, you're never home
[01:00.00]To the point to that I don't notice when you're gone
[01:02.13]I'm getting older, but I'm growing all alone (I'm all alone)
[01:04.95]How can you raise me, without even knowing me?
[01:07.65]Everything I do, is just to get you to notice me (I miss you)
[01:10.62]Realize, you're the great influence in my life
[01:13.05]And you're absence just might be what's ruining my life (you're ruing my life)
[01:16.65]I got questions, but we don't talk on the usual
[01:19.11]My friends are having sex, and I'm wondering, should I do it too? (What should I do?)
[01:22.38]Who should I go to, if you are never there? (Where?)
[01:25.02]And if you never ask, will you ever be aware? (Be aware)
[01:28.20]You say you care for me, you don't get it apparently!
[01:30.84]I'm young and just a child, I need my parent to parent me!
[01:33.84]Look at my life
[01:34.62]Look at my pain
[01:36.12]Look at my tears
[01:37.23]These tears I shed
[01:38.91]I feel so alone, with nobody to talk to
[01:41.85]Cuz of the days that I spend without you
[01:44.88]It's like you're here, but you're gone (but you're gone)
[01:47.97]You're here, but you're gone (but you're gone)
[01:51.03]It's like you're here, but you're gone (but you're gone)
[01:54.00]And you're gone, gone, gone, gone away
[01:57.57]I know you're hustling (I know), I see you on your grind
[01:59.94]You give me everything I need, but I really want your time (I want your time)
[02:03.45]I stay in fresh J's, laced in new gear
[02:06.00]But I would trade it all, if I'd only have you here
[02:09.27]I smell the dough that you blowing, cuz it be so potent
[02:12.18]Oh yeah, I notice, but you don't think I'ma wanna smoke it? (I wanna blow)
[02:15.15]I see your love for the streets, and I want that love too
[02:17.64]You taught me to be hard, but you rarely tell me, "I love you" (I love you)(Please love me)
[02:21.24]Moms be mad, she always be talking bad about you
[02:23.73]But honestly, Dad, I don't think I'll become a man without you
[02:26.88]And she be gone, matter of fact she never home
[02:29.52]She come into work, and I'm living like I'm already grown
[02:32.76]I gotta place to stay, then get ta shop at the mall
[02:35.58]But I'll honestly say, I don't have no guidance at all
[02:38.46]You say you care for me, but don't know I can barely read
[02:41.16]I'm young and just a child, I need my parents to parent me!
[02:43.68]Look at my life
[02:44.88]Look at my pain
[02:46.38]Look at my tears
[02:47.49]These tears I shed
[02:49.14]I feel so alone, with nobody to talk to
[02:52.11]Cuz of the days that I spend without you
[02:55.14]It's like you're here, but you're gone (but you're gone)
[02:57.36]You're here, but you're gone (but you're gone)
[03:01.08]It's like you're here, but you're gone (but you're gone)
[03:04.17]And you're gone, gone, gone, gone away
[03:07.77]I know you're in Church, I see your love for God (I do)
[03:10.26]You give me everything I need, but I really need your time (I need your time)
[03:13.68]Your godly life and love for people amazes me
[03:16.23]But tell me should the Church take my mom and my dad away from me?
[03:19.53]I say this simply, you know a lot spiritually
[03:22.05]Involved in ministry, but often, you don't remember me (Remember me?)
[03:25.41]You teach the Youth and show them how to model and live (Yep)
[03:28.41]But at home you've never shown me what the Gospel is (Father I need you)
[03:31.47]How can you share with those seem direly hopeless?
[03:34.14]Inside I cry, cuz we've never cracked the Bible open
[03:36.84]And I'm dealing with pressure, and don't know what to do
[03:39.99]Know what it's like to be the only Christian in your school?
[03:43.02]I bump that 1-1-6, they tell me to live unashamed (I'm ashamed)
[03:45.96]But that's hard when those around you are on another thing
[03:48.75]You study thoroughly, but don't get it apparently!
[03:51.33]I'm a babe in the faith, I need my parents to parent me!
[03:53.88]Look at my life
[03:55.08]Look at my pain
[03:56.52]Look at my tears
[03:58.53]These tears I shed
[03:59.49]I feel so alone, with nobody to talk to
[04:02.37]Cuz of the days that I spend without you
[04:05.43]It's like you're here, but you're gone (but you're gone)
[04:08.10]You're here, but you're gone (but you're gone)
[04:13.77]It's like you're here, but you're gone (but you're gone)
[04:17.01]And you're gone, gone, gone, gone away
[04:22.80]Mama I need you.. And daddy I need you...