Feels better if I tell em my story



Yo, on November 24th, 1999

I was in L.A., and I was in the kitchen cookin

And I got this page right

And uh, I called back and I was informed that

My father had passed away from a herion overdose

About two hour's earlier

So this song is for him, and to him

And for all the fatherless children in the world

The mother's who raised us, the people who love us



[Verse 1]

It's a Monday, finally found the perfect beat

To speak my peace on how I came to be

The way I was raised, how I was born

Why I smile so sad, and have the eyes of a storm

Moms from Virginia, you from Rhode Island

Met up in the state where the sun's always smilin

Minds connected, physicals exchanged

Y'all both believin that the world can be changed

Time passed to 1973, and you begged my mom to create me

First she said no but she loved you too much

1974 had a child to touch

We was into other things, that ripped life scenes

Liqour, drugs, other women, destroyin dreams

But you know how women be, she tried to hold on

For the sake of your love and the beautiful bond



[Chorus]

I'ma fatherless child, it's all I ever been

It's all I ever be, since your gone from me

Still I hope you know, that I can never unlove you, love you



[Verse 2]

1974 was a year things changed

Too much alcholol makes people violent and strange

You broke the window's with a baseball bat

As my mother cried inside with me on her lap

The dream destroyed, it was time to leave

She didn't take much, just a few things of lovin me

That was the birth of this fatherless child

And a struggling mother with the world in her eyes

She did it though, put herself in college

Rais