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J. Cole

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Look, I just shed tears homie and now I ain't to proud to admit itJust seen my father for the first time in a minuteAnd when I say a minute I mean years manDamn, a whale could have swam in them tears famCause as I left em' I reflected on my younger daysWhen it was just me and my brother and my mother playedFather, cause no other man botheredNot even my biological, it never seemed logicalBut I accepted it cause I ain't know no betterThought I was brighter than a Polo sweaterNo pops was like Martin with no CorettaSo many things you could have told meAnd saved me the trouble of letting my mistakes show meI feel like you barely know meAnd that's a shame cause our last name is the sameThat blood type flowing through our veins is the sameMy mama left you and it may be that anger's to blameBut that's no excuse, only you and God know the truthAnd why you only call monthly, barely ever saw meSpend some summers with you and played with my cousin MauryMaybe I should be tellin' you fuck you cause you selfishBut I want a father so bad, I can't help but...Break down, I break downCan't help but break downI never thought I'd see my mama on that shit, manIt's fucking with her body, now she sick, damnI wanted a big house with a white picket fence and a poolWho would have ever thought that it would come to this, man?Quicksand is what this life feel likeThat shit these rappers kick is nothing like real lifeYou made a milli off of servin' hard white? yeah rightMy mama tell you what addicted to that pipe feel likeStupid niggas, I heard the cops be shooting niggasI swear to god, wish I could bullet proof my niggasCan't get no jobs, but they still recruiting niggasWe tryna stand tall when it get too crucial niggasBreak down! We break down..He's serving time, locked downAnd she don't want nobody to know, his daughter 25 poundsBy the time he get out, she gon' be 4Now will his girl stay down?Ain't no doubt she love him -- yeah that's for sureBut temptation stays roundAnd if she strayed, how could he ever know?And so, she goes to the club on the weekendA little freaking, but them niggas hollaBut she never speaking, but tonight I see the devil creepingCause she been lonely, she ain't felt a man in 7 seasonsDamn! She do the best that she canHer mama telling her to find another manShe college educated with a felon boyfriendThat's what she thinking tonightMaybe she's right, but pleaseStay down mama! Gotta be strong, don't break down mama!Please..
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