[00:00.000] 作词 : Blige, Coles, Diggs, Gordy ... [00:00.09]What dey gives you blood ? [00:02.65]Three months man [00:05.35]Whatchu doin' in here anyway ? [00:08.24]You oughta be home with your momma [00:10.26]How old are you boy ? [00:12.79]Thirteen [00:14.50]Thirteen ? Damn ! [00:17.56]The bastards must be runnin' outta *****z to arrest [00:19.83]Yeah oh yeah [00:21.11]This goes out to all the families that went through the struggle [00:27.23]Yeah from the heart [00:31.68]It was from the heart everything was real [00:37.27]Yo dwellin' in the past flashbacks when I was young [00:40.05]Whoever thought that I'd have a baby girl and three sons [00:42.84]I'm goin' through this difficult stage I find it hard to believe [00:45.75]Why my old Earth had so many seeds [00:48.54]But she's an old woman and due to me I respect that [00:51.32]I saw life for what it's really worth and took a step back [00:54.05]Family ain't family no more we used to play ball [00:56.82]Eggs after school eat grits 'cause we was poor [00:59.52]Grab the pliers for the channel fix the hanger on the TV [01:02.21]Rockin' each others pants to school wasn't easy [01:04.98]We survived winters snotty nosed with no coats [01:07.55]We kept it real but the older brother still had jokes [01:10.43]Sadly daddy left me at the age of six [01:13.15]I didn't know nuttin' but mommy neatly packed his **** [01:15.93]She cried and grandma held the family down [01:18.57]I guess mommy wasn't strong enough she just went down [01:21.37]Check it fifteen of us in a three bedroom apartment [01:24.09]Roaches everywhere cousins and aunts was there [01:26.94]Four in the bed two at the foot two at the head [01:29.95]I didn't like to sleep with Jon Jon he peed the bed [01:32.24]Seven o'clock pluckin' roaches out the cereal box [01:35.10]Some shared the same spoon watchin' Saturday cartoons [01:38.01]Sugar water was our thing every meal was no thrill [01:40.66]In the summer free lunch held us down like steel [01:43.55]And there was days I had to go to Tex house with a note [01:46.07]Stating "Gloria can I borrow some food I'm dead broke" [01:48.86]So embarrasin' I couldn't stand to knock on they door [01:51.62]My friends might be laughin' I spent stamps in stores [01:54.35]Mommy where's the toilet paper use the newspaper [01:57.69]Look Ms. Rose gave us a couch she's the neighbor [02:00.11]Things was deep my whole youth was sharper than cleats [02:02.85]Two brothers with muscular dystrophy it killed me [02:05.66]But I remember this mom's would lick her finger tips [02:08.11]To wipe the cold out my eye before school wit her spit [02:10.91]Case worker had her runnin' back to face to face [02:13.47]I caught a case housin' tried to throw us out of our place [02:16.46]Sometimes I look up at the stars and ****yze the sky [02:19.28]And ask myself was I meant to be here [02:22.36]Why ? [02:25.66]Yeah yo [02:28.28]All that I got is you [02:33.13]And I'm so thankful I made it through [02:38.66]All that I got is you [02:44.15]And I'm so thankful I made it through [02:49.83]All that I got is you [02:55.14]And I'm so thankful I made it through [03:00.80]All that I got is you [03:06.46]And I'm so thankful I made it through [03:13.55]I sit and think about all the times we did without yeah [03:24.12]I always said I wouldn't cry when I saw tears in your eyes [03:34.76]I understand that daddy's not here now [03:39.42]But some way or somehow I will always be around yeah [03:45.64]All things that I did from this to them [03:49.67]Oh from drugs to being there [03:52.72]Being down and out and I love you always [04:03.63]Yeah you say you see the universe [04:09.52]Which consists of the sun moon and star [04:14.20]And them planets that exist in my space [04:19.57]Like man woman and child you understand ? [04:25.07]We got to keep it real and what reality [04:27.08]And reality will keep it real with us [04:30.49]I remember them good ol' days [04:33.59]Because see that's the child I was [04:36.08]What made me the man I am today [04:39.97]See 'cause if you forget where you come from heheh [04:44.30]You're never gonna make it where you're goin' aheh [04:47.64]Because you lost the reality of yourself [04:52.01]So take one stroll through your mind [04:55.37]And see what you will find [04:58.00]And you'll see a whole universe all over again [05:00.54]And again and again and again and again [05:02.97]Heheheh yeah heheheheh aha heheheh