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My momma gave me up when I was four years old |
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She didn't destroy my body, but she killed my soul |
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Now it's cold 'cause I'm sleepin in my back seat |
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I understand the spirit's willing, but my flesh is weak |
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Let me speak |
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I never had a chance to dream |
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ten years old and findin love in dirty magazines |
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Ms. December you remember, I bought ya twice |
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Now I'm thirty plus and still payin the price |
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Had a sister that I barely knew |
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Kinda got separated by the age of two |
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Same momma different daddy so we couldn't fake it |
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I saw my sister's daddy beat her in the tub naked |
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Take it serious the demons in a man's mind |
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The same man on rape charges now he's doin' time |
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Crack followed him and like daddy prison thirteen years |
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Haven't seen her I guess she's traded tears for fears |
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Shout, Shout, |
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Let it all out |
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These are the things I can do without |
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So come on, |
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I'm talkin' to you |
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So Come on |
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Sex was how I made it through |
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Without someone to teach you love, what else is there to do? |
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See where I'm from they call you gay, say you ain't a man |
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Show them you ain't no punk |
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Get all the girls you can |
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A simple plan that still haunts me now today |
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Back to seventeen and got a baby on the way |
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No GED, all I see is failure in my eyes |
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If you listening and remember I apologize |
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I was raised falling in the church |
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Made mistakes and heard the Lord's calling in the church |
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After service in the parking lot getting high |
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Wanted to be accepted so bad I was willing to die |
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Even tried to tell the Pastor, but he couldn't see |
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Years of low self-esteem and insecurities |
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Church taught me how to shout and how to speak in tongues |
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But preacher, teach me how to live now when the tongue is done, help me |
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Shout, Shout, Let it all out |
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These are the things I can do without |
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So come on |
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I'm talking to you |
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So come on |
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See I, See I |
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I just wanna let it go, just wanna let it go, just let it go |
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Jesus please on my knees can't You hear me crying |
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You said to put it in Your hands and Lord I'm really trying |
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You wasn't lying when You said You reap what you sow |
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Like that night momma died, it's hard to let it go |
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You adopted me, cared for me, changed my name |
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But I cursed at you, lied to you, left you pain |
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It's not strange I can still see it in my head |
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To know for hours you were lying there in that bed |
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If you're listening to this record |
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If it's day or night |
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If you momma is still living, treat your momma right |
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Don't be like me and let that moment slip away |
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And be careful 'cause you can't take back what you say |
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To my real momma if you're listening I'm letting it go |
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To my father, I forgive you, 'cause you didn't know |
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That the pain was the preparation for my destiny |
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And one more thing Lord let my son be a better man than me |
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Shout, Shout, Let it all out |
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These are the things I can do without |
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So come on |
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I'm talking to you |
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So come on |
