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I swear to tell the truth and nothin but the truth... |
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so help me GOD |
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I just felt like tellin the story of my life |
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Felt like, maybe somebody could be inspired, you know? |
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We all feel pain, we all go through things |
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But it's time to overcome all that |
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If your plane crashed in the water and everybody died |
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would you drown on purpose or try to survive? |
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I was born handicapped my arm wouldn't move |
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They called me a cripple pops caught an attitude |
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Beat my moms smoked lye drove trucks |
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My moms had a miscarriage, he didn't give a fuck |
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He sniffed some coke, come home |
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Beat up on my moms cause she's talkin on the phone |
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Come on |
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all I ever wanted |
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All I ever wanted |
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all I ever needed |
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All I ever needed |
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was a father |
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was a father |
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that's all |
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That's all! |
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all I ever wanted |
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All I ever wanted |
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all I ever needed |
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All I ever needed... was a father |
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was a father |
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Moms got tired of the beatings said, "Yo, we got to go" |
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Packed up her bags we bounced out the do' |
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She said, "I ain't takin these whippin's no mo' |
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I wanna live to see my little Todd grow" |
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I remember tear drops on my pops face |
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Lookin down at me standin on the staircase |
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Handsome brother with a smooth goatee |
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Makes me wonder why he act so ugly, you feelin me? |
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I'm feelin you |
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all I ever wanted |
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All I ever wanted |
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all I ever needed |
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All I ever needed |
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was a father |
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was a father |
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that's all |
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That's all! |
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all I ever wanted |
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All I ever wanted |
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all I ever needed |
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All I ever needed... was a father |
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was a fathe |
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My pops got drunk when me and my moms bounced |
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Swigged some Jack Dan', sniffed up a ounce |
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Grabbed the shotty left Long Isle for Queens |
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Possesed by a demon... a devil it seemed |
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I was too young to understand the risk |
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when your moms come home off the midnight shift |
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She turned around heard the shotgun click |
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My pops said, "You think that you could leave me?" |
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He blasted my moms in the back |
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She fell down screamin I can't forget that |
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My grandfather tried to close the do' |
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He got shot ten times in the stomach yo, for real |
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all I ever wanted |
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All I ever wanted |
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all I ever needed |
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All I ever needed |
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was a father |
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was a father |
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that's all |
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That's all! |
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all I ever wanted |
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All I ever wanted |
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all I ever needed |
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All I ever needed... was a father |
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was a fathe |
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My head was spinnin, I had never seen blood |
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Four years old, this don't feel like love |
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Anyway, pops dissapeared |
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Grandpops and moms healed up over the years |
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This therapist got up in her head |
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Led her to believe without him she'd be dead |
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You know, they fell in love with one another |
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Everything seemed right that's word to mother |
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until I started gettin beatings everday |
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Sometimes for going outside to play |
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Late at night on my knees I'd pray |
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a young child, wishin the pain would go away |
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Dad where was you when he made me strip |
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Beat with belts like a slave with a whip |
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Kicked me down steps outside in the snow |
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Punched me in the chest stomped me out on the flo' |
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That's just the tip of the iceberg look |
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It's too long for a song but perfect for a book |
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Word is bond, that's real baby |
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all I ever wanted |
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All I ever wanted |
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all I ever needed |
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All I ever needed |
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was a father |
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was a father |
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that's all |
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That's all! |
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all I ever wanted |
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All I ever wanted |
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all I ever needed |
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All I a ever fatherneeded... was |
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was a fathe |
