Boys and girls wanna hear a true story

Saturday night, was at this real wild party

They had the liquor over flowing the cup

About five, six strippers, trying to work for a buck

And, i took one girl outside with me

Her name was mylene she went to junior high with me

I said, why you up in there dancin' for cash

I guess a whole lot has changed since i seen you last

She said



What would you do if your son was at home

crying all alone on the bedroom floor, cause he's hungry

and the only way to feed him is to strip for a man,

for a little bit of money, and his daddy's gone

somewhere smokin' rock now in and out of lock down

I got a job now

so for you this is just a good time,

but for me this is what i call life



Girl, you ain't the only one with a baby

That's no excuse to be livin all crazy

Then she looked me right square in the eye,

Every day i wake up hopin' to die

She said nigger i know about pain cause,

Me and my sister ran away so my daddy couldn't rape us

Before i was a teenager, i had been through more shit, you can't even relate to



What would you do if your son was at home

crying all alone on the bedroom floor, cause he's hungry

and the only way to feed him is to strip for a man,

for a little bit of money, and his daddy's gone

somewhere smokin' rock now in and out of lock down

I got a job now,

so for you this is just a good time,

but for me this is what i call life



Then she said

(What would you do?)

Get up on my feet and let go of every excuse

(what would you do?)

cause i wouldn't want my baby to go through what i went through

(what would you do?)

Get up on my feet and stop making tired excuses

(What would you do?)

Girl i know if my mother can do it, baby you can do it

yea, yea, yea



What would you do if your son was at home

crying all alone on the bedroom floor, cause he's hungry

and the only way to feed him is to strip for a man,

for a little bit of money, and his daddy's gone

somewhere smokin' rock now in and out of lock down

I got a job now,

so for you this is just a good time,

but for me this is what i call life



What would you do if your son was at home

crying all alone on the bedroom floor, cause he's hungry

and the only way to feed him is to strip for a man,

for a little bit of money, and his daddy's gone

somewhere smokin' rock now in and out of lock down

I got a job now

so for you this is just a good time,

but for me this is what i call life



What would you do if your sone was at home

crying all alone on the bedroom floor, cause he's hungry

and the only way to feed him is to strip for a man,

for a little bit of money, and his daddy's gone

somewhere smokin' rock now in and out of lock down

I got a job now,

so for you this is just a good time,

but for me this is what i call life