[00:12.85]I feel you (uhh) (baby)
[00:15.39]But you can't, you can't give up
[00:18.00](hey.2pac what?)
[00:19.76]Baby don't cry, I hope you got your head up (outlawz)
[00:22.07]Even when the road is hard, never give up
[00:24.43]Baby don't cry, I hope you got your head up
[00:27.27]Even when the road is hard, never give up (keep ya head up)
[00:30.71]Now here's a story bout a woman with dreams
[00:32.79]So picture perfect at thirteen, an ebony queen
[00:35.20]Beneath the surface it was more than just a crooked smile
[00:37.69]Nobody knew about her secret so it took a while
[00:40.02]I could see a tear fall slow down her black cheek
[00:42.40]Sheddin quiet tears in the back seat,
[00:44.50]so when she asked me,
[00:45.51]"what would you do if it was you?"
[00:47.43]Couldn't answer such a horrible pain to live through
[00:50.27]I tried to trade places in the tragedy
[00:52.18]I couldn't picture three crazed niggaz grabbing me
[00:54.83]For just a moment I was trapped in the pain,
[00:57.18]lord come and take me four niggaz violated,
[00:59.41]they chased and they raped me
[01:01.27]Even though it wasn't me, I could feel the grief
[01:03.80]Thinking with your brains blown that would make the pain go
[01:06.33]No! you got to find a way to survive
[01:08.50]Cause they win when your soul dies
[01:10.27]Baby please don't cry, you got to keep your head up
[01:13.04]Even when the road is hard, never give up
[01:15.46]Baby don't cry, you got to keep your head up
[01:18.37]Even when the road is hard, never give up
[01:20.61]Baby don't cry, I hope you got your head up
[01:23.08]Even when the road is hard, never give up
[01:25.78]Baby don't cry, I hope you got your head up
[01:28.32]Even when the road is hard, never give up
[01:31.00]Baby don't cry
[01:31.80]
[01:32.00]Uhh
[01:32.18]Forget him girl (forget him girl) he ain't gon' never change
[01:34.31]I ain't no hater but that nigga lost in the game
[01:36.85]After the bright lights and big thangs
[01:39.49]He probably could love you, but he in love with the struggle
[01:41.50]Everyday, his mind on getting mo' (gettin mo')
[01:44.01]And never your feelings, he's chasing millions fo' sho'
[01:46.41]Uh oh (uh oh), now you bout to have his baby? (dayamn)
[01:49.20]Another wild-ass nigga that's gon' drive you crazy
[01:51.96]You got too much, mo', living to do - i'm spitting this to you,
[01:54.95]Cause you deserve more than what he giving to you (that's right)
[01:57.32]Beautiful, black, precious, and complicated
[01:59.52]A new millennium dime piece, so fine she
[02:02.09]Got em all stuck standing still when she come through
[02:04.72]Baby take a little mo' time, love'll find you
[02:07.45]And show us the sky's blue somebody other than me
[02:10.07]Gon' give you everything you need, feel me?
[02:12.00](don't cry-ahhhhh.)
[02:12.25]
[02:12.35]Baby don't cry, you got to keep your head up
[02:14.56]Even when the road is hard, never give up (you'll be alright)
[02:17.08]Baby don't cry, you got to keep your head up
[02:19.53]Even when the road is hard, never give up (you'll be alright)
[02:22.09]Baby don't cry, I hope you got your head up
[02:24.72]Even when the road is hard, never give up (keep your head up)
[02:27.21]Baby don't cry, I hope you got your head up (never give up)
[02:29.70]Even when the road is hard, never give up (no no. ohhhh)
[02:32.31]Baby don't cry
[02:33.20]
[02:33.50]I'm trying to do all that I can, from jump
[02:36.23]Now you losin, you was choosin the wrong man
[02:38.00]Dealt the wrong hand, you was young and beautiful
[02:40.25]Lost and turned out, what you let that nigga do to you? (damn)
[02:43.06]I knew her since elementary, she blew a kiss to me
[02:45.83]Wrote me a note in crayon, wanting to get with me
[02:48.44]We was kids, now she got three kids
[02:50.57]They see their father e'ryday, and they don't know who he is
[02:53.09]Seen him last night, homey roll a e-class
[02:55.85]Mad cheese in the stash, still a deadbeat dad
[02:58.07]I bring her, pampers and food, just to stop through
[03:00.73]But those, ain't my seeds, nutting really i could do (nah)
[03:03.20]I feel pity for you, you ain't even his wife
[03:05.81]Seventeen with three kids, locked down for life
[03:08.51]Shoulda chose me, she bout to o.d. from the pressure
[03:11.55]Hell nah I won't let her (baby don't cry)
[03:13.47]
[03:13.61]Baby don't cry, you got to keep your head up
[03:15.68]Even when the road is hard, never give up (you'll be alright)
[03:18.35]Baby don't cry, you got to keep your head up
[03:20.75]Even when the road is hard, never give up (baby don't cry)
[03:23.37]Baby don't cry, I hope you got your head up
[03:25.92]Even when the road is hard, never give up (baby baby baby)
[03:28.47]Baby don't cry, I hope you got your head up (no.)
[03:30.75]Even when the road is hard, never give up (no-ohhhh)
[03:33.51]Baby don't cry, I gotta keep your head up
[03:36.00]Even when the road is hard, never give up
[03:38.64]Baby don't cry, you got to keep your head up
[03:41.38]Even when the road is hard, never give up (ooooh baby)
[03:43.95]Baby don't cry, I hope you got your head up
[03:46.45]Even when the road is hard, never give up
[03:49.02]Baby don't cry, I hope you got your head up (keep your head up,keep your head up, never give up)
[03:51.89]Even when the road is hard, never give up
[03:54.10]Baby don't cry
[03:55.21]
[03:56.00]Uhh, uhh, yeah, don't give up (you'll be alright)
[04:00.39]Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry
[04:03.59]
[04:04.17]Baby don't cry, I hope you got your head up
[04:06.81]Even when the road is hard, never give up
[04:09.41]Baby don't cry, I hope you got your head up
[04:11.86]Even when the road is hard, never give up
[04:14.57]Baby don't cry