Father-LL Cool J

[ti:Father]
[ar:LL Cool J]
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[00:03.12]I swear to tell the truth and nothin but the truth
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[00:07.74]So help me GOD
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[00:12.23]I just felt like tellin the story of my life
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[00:15.98]Felt like maybe somebody could be inspired you know
[00:19.59]
[00:23.46]We all feel pain we all go through things
[00:26.70]But it's time to overcome all that
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[00:29.02]If your plane crashed in the water and everybody died
[00:31.64]Would you drown on purpose or try to survive
[00:33.95]I was born handicapped my arm wouldn't move
[00:36.51]They called me a cripple pops caught an attitude
[00:39.07]Beat my moms smoked lye drove trucks
[00:41.43]My moms had a miscarriage he didn't give a f**k
[00:44.50]He sniffed some coke come home
[00:46.37]Beat up on my moms cause she's talkin on the phone
[00:48.62]Come on
[00:49.49]All I ever wanted
[00:50.70]All I ever wanted
[00:51.76]All I ever needed
[00:53.13]All I ever needed
[00:54.44]Was a father
[00:55.32]Was a father
[00:56.50]That's all
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[00:58.21]That's all
[00:59.15]All I ever wanted
[01:00.57]All I ever wanted
[01:01.88]All I ever needed
[01:03.33]All I ever needed was a father
[01:05.82]Was a father
[01:06.76]
[01:07.88]Moms got tired of the beatings said"Yo we got to go"
[01:10.50]Packed up her bags we bounced out the do'
[01:12.94]She said"I ain't takin these whippin's no mo'
[01:15.18]I wanna live to see my little Todd grow"
[01:17.92]I remember tear drops on my pops face
[01:20.68]Lookin down at me standin on the staircase
[01:22.97]Handsome brother with a smooth goatee
[01:24.98]Makes me wonder why he act so ugly you feelin me
[01:27.66]I'm feelin you
[01:28.71]All I ever wanted
[01:29.66]All I ever wanted
[01:30.71]All I ever needed
[01:32.09]All I ever needed
[01:33.21]Was a father
[01:34.15]Was a father
[01:35.09]That's all
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[01:37.03]That's all
[01:37.91]All I ever wanted
[01:39.41]All I ever wanted
[01:40.72]All I ever needed
[01:42.03]All I ever needed was a father
[01:44.71]Was a fathe
[01:46.64]My pops got drunk when me and my moms bounced
[01:49.39]Swigged some Jack Dan' sniffed up a ounce
[01:51.76]Grabbed the shotty left Long Isle for Queens
[01:54.32]Possesed by a demon a devil it seemed
[01:57.13]I was too young to understand the risk
[01:59.19]When your moms come home off the midnight shift
[02:01.43]She turned around heard the shotgun click
[02:03.80]My pops said"You think that you could leave me"
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[02:07.11]He blasted my moms in the back
[02:08.85]She fell down screamin I can't forget that
[02:11.29]My grandfather tried to close the do'
[02:13.40]He got shot ten times in the stomach yo for real
[02:16.97]All I ever wanted
[02:18.34]All I ever wanted
[02:19.53]All I ever needed
[02:20.78]All I ever needed
[02:21.84]Was a father
[02:23.21]Was a father
[02:24.46]That's all
[02:25.89]That's all
[02:26.58]All I ever wanted
[02:27.95]All I ever wanted
[02:29.38]All I ever needed
[02:30.38]All I ever needed was a father
[02:33.87]Was a fathe
[02:35.69]My head was spinnin I had never seen blood
[02:37.87]Four years old this don't feel like love
[02:40.37]Anyway pops dissapeared
[02:42.85]Grandpops and moms healed up over the years
[02:45.24]This therapist got up in her head
[02:47.73]Led her to believe without him she'd be dead
[02:50.17]You know they fell in love with one another
[02:52.97]Everything seemed right that's word to mother
[02:55.34]Until I started gettin beatings everday
[02:57.40]Sometimes for going outside to play
[02:59.90]Late at night on my knees I'd pray
[03:02.21]A young child wishin the pain would go away
[03:04.83]Dad where was you when he made me strip
[03:07.13]Beat with belts like a slave with a whip
[03:09.57]Kicked me down steps outside in the snow
[03:11.94]Punched me in the chest stomped me out on the flo'
[03:14.80]That's just the tip of the iceberg look
[03:16.79]It's too long for a song but perfect for a book
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[03:21.10]Word is bond that's real baby
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[03:24.86]All I ever wanted
[03:26.80]All I ever wanted
[03:27.80]All I ever needed
[03:28.73]All I ever needed
[03:30.11]Was a father
[03:30.84]Was a father
[03:32.54]That's all
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[03:33.72]That's all
[03:34.85]All I ever wanted
[03:36.22]All I ever wanted
[03:37.59]All I ever needed
[03:38.65]All I ever needed was a father
[03:39.44]Was a fathe