INTRO
All I know is true is...
this love I have for you...
REFRAIN
This for the Women that be using their kids
as a weapon against the Fathers, cos they think they ain't shit,
(reverse that)
this for the absent Fathers leaving em' stuck
as single parents in the struggle not giving a fuck!
VERSE ONE
A baby is born and that’s without an obligation
to become the mediation to its parents complications,
early in its life’s journey,
it don’t need to be feeling like an attorney
in disputes that are dirty and blurry,
just because the parents couldn’t get they act together,
no one's really saying that them parents should be trapped together,
but if the Mom and Dad can lay down on they back together,
both of them responsible and that's a fucking fact forever,
so that should never be forgotten,
cos the poison that comes out of this
can make some children rotten in their minds
about who they are and those who really got they back,
this causes impact on whether they be straight or slack,
no child ever wanna feel like they Daddy don’t care,
or they Mommy treat em’ funny cos they Daddy ain’t there,
I hear them talk about no interference,
cos I’m playing both parents,
like they making an appearance in a play,
but this is not a game, this a little life,
needing more than looking up to someone doing little right,
it’s like they nurturing a flower with a little light,
just because they broke up with their partner in a bitter fight,
now they trash talk on Facebook and Twitter like,
"I should get a medal, what I’m doing is the biggest hype",
yo', but they made a decision to bring a child to this earth
with no major revisions to the way they act
and everything’s a public exhibition,
like it ain't a job for life, it’s a simple intermission,
and no I ain't the type to just be on some criticism,
but we want these kids to listen when they parents ain’t listening.
CHORUS (x2)
All I know is true is... this love I have for you.
REFRAIN
VERSE TWO
Since when has a child been an accessory?
A life decoration in need of no necessity?
No dependency, ancillary to a pregnancy,
just a pleasantry or arsenal to your weaponry,
raising them with jealously and very little empathy,
effectively, crushing their chance of something heavenly,
lacking all of life’s remedies,
so essentially from their birth registry to adulthood
they’ll never be equipped with the crown jewels of parenthood,
it’s like the passing of a baton in a race just like a parent should,
you gotta bring em’ to the most profitable place,
before you let go, so they can continue the race,
cos you never get the chance to ever replace
a fucked up childhood provided with no embrace of love
from people who supposed to care about them most,
instead they ghost cos they're fully engrossed
in some bullshit notion that they doing everything correct,
never taught em no respect, sitting on the internet,
smoking on a cigarette, hasn’t made the dinner yet,
Daddy placed another bet, but hasn’t had a winner yet,
I ain't the type to be on some criticism,
but we want these kids to listen when they parents ain’t listening,
I ain't the type to be on some criticism,
but how they gonna listen if all we do is dismiss em’?
CHORUS (x4)
REFRAIN
credits
from Autonomy: The 4th Quarter 2,
released September 2, 2016
Written by N. Newman
Produced by Funky DL for Washington Classics
Additional Keyboards by Xantoné Blacq
Recorded, Mixed and Arranged by Funky DL for Washington Classics 2016
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