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[00:01.62][Rapper Big Pooh]
[00:02.01]Uh, Deah Pops
[00:05.47]It's your boy
[00:08.07]I got some things I want to say to you, man
[00:11.07]Just a couple of words
[00:12.37]Bear with me
[00:15.01]Gimme a minute
[00:20.78]Time to face it
[00:22.62]Sitting in the middle of the basement
[00:25.28]Holding a jack
[00:26.27]How I'm anticipating he 'gon call me back
[00:28.43]Got so much on my mind
[00:29.81]Ain't no holding it back
[00:31.41]In fact, I give a fuck how he 'gon react
[00:33.19]Through my first nineteen
[00:35.30]Asking where he at
[00:36.60]Never seen him in the spots where we be at
[00:39.06]For the next couple hours I sat til the phone rang
[00:42.54]No luck or no cigar
[00:44.28]So I said to myself I'll try tomorr'
[00:46.93]Me and my Vincent left out
[00:48.92]Went to shoot play some ball
[00:49.87]Came back, had message like 'this your pa'
[00:52.26]Then I took to the phone
[00:53.72]Conversation was raw
[00:54.96]Shit, I had to let him know that his child was scarred
[00:56.85]And right now we working through our mess
[00:59.94]But I had to get some shit off my chest
[01:02.14]So bear with me, y'all
[01:02.88][Chorus:]
[01:04.97]Just want to take the time to let you know
[01:10.21]Sometimes it's hard to let my feelings show
[01:15.43]The thoughts of guarantees are really so
[01:19.92]This is all for you, you
[01:23.86][Phonte]
[01:24.10]I was looking at your photograph amazed how I favored you
[01:26.50]I remember being young wanting to play with you
[01:29.15]Cause you was a wild and crazy dude
[01:30.99]And now I understand why my momma couldn't never stay with you
[01:34.47]From the roots to the branches to the leaves
[01:36.92]They say apples don't fall far from the trees
[01:39.56]I used to find it hard to believe
[01:41.30]And I swore that I would
[01:42.36]Always hold my family as long as I could
[01:45.09]But damn
[01:45.89]Our memories can be so misleading
[01:47.83]It's misery
[01:48.80]I hate to see history repeating
[01:50.34]Thought you were the bad guy
[01:51.90]But I guess that's why
[01:53.29]Me and my girl split
[01:54.44]And my son is leaving
[01:55.78]I did chores, did bills, and did dirt
[01:58.18]But I swear to God I tried to make that shit work
[02:00.67]'Til I came off tour to an empty house
[02:03.91]With all the dressers and the cabinets emptied out
[02:06.85]I think I must've went insane
[02:08.75]Thinking I was in love, but really in chains
[02:11.29]Trapped to this girl through the two-year old who carried my name
[02:13.98]I tried to stop tripping
[02:15.37]But yo, I couldn't and the plot thickened
[02:17.47]That shit affected me, largely
[02:19.11]Because I know a lot of people want me
[02:21.00]To fail as a father
[02:22.35]And the thought of that haunts me
[02:24.05]Especially when I check my rear-view mirror
[02:26.24]And don't see him in his car seat
[02:28.13]So the next time it's late at night
[02:29.93]And I'm laid up with the woman I'mma make my wife
[02:32.38]Talking 'bout how we 'gon make a life
[02:34.41]I'm thinking about child support, alimony, visitation rights
[02:37.61]Cause that's the only outcome if you can't make it right
[02:40.10]Pissed off with your children feeling the same pain
[02:43.10]So, Pop, how could I blame cause you couldn't maintain
[02:45.49]I did the same thing
[02:47.22]The same thing
[02:49.06]Just want to take the time to let you know
[02:55.48]Sometimes it's hard to let my feelings show
[03:00.62]The thoughts of guarantees are really so
[03:05.11]This is all for you, you
[03:10.10]Just want to take the time to let you know
[03:20.42]Sometimes it's hard to let my feelings show
[03:30.98]Just want to take the time to let you know
[03:38.00]Sometimes it's hard to let my feelings show
[03:43.04]The thoughts of guarantees are really so
[03:47.48]This is all for you, you