| Come with me if you will, if I could take you back in time
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| Back in high school, hitting skins was the only thing on my mind
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| Eleventh grade, boy, you couldn’t tell me shit, I was in my prime
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| Moms blocking your cell phone, tired of girls tying up the line
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| I mean, I spent so much time trying to get ass and, yeah, I did
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| I think back, I thank the Lord, I wasn’t ready to have no kid
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| I’m on the phone till five in the morning, knowing I gotta get up early for
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| class
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| Mama said I need to slow down, but I told her all these girls so fast
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| Look, all these girls so fine, all these girls got to be mine
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| So many times I said, «It's only you,» knowing damn-well I was lying
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| Saying, «I love you,» and, «It's just you,» I ain’t even gotta touch you
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| Running that game, nah, girl, I ain’t even tryna rush you
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| I ran into this chick I used to hit, aw yeah, she was bad
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| Now she got five babies, four baby-daddies, yo, this shit’s sad
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| Now I think back to them times I used to make an empty promise
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| I think, «Is this my fault?» |
| Shit’s just weight on my conscious, for real
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| The weather changes winds, they blow
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| Sun will shine amidst the snow
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| If only chose how we fall
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| It’d be too easy to brush it off
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| So it ends, and it begins
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| So it ends, and it begins
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| So it ends, and it begins
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| So it ends…
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| Beauty is her gift, and her beauty is her curse
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| Look, between home and school, she don’t know which one is worse
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| Every nigga tryna hit it so she don’t know what she worth
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| When she gave it to her first, he went around saying he hit it first
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| Now, picture that, now she bitter
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| Her daddy used to hit her
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| Yeah, nigga had a temper
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| Used to get touched on by the babysitter
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| All that shit’s still in her
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| But we ain’t tripping, we just walk on by
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| Wave when we say hi
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| But what’s inside, made her use her bathroom breaks to go and cry
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| We don’t ask, so she don’t tell, so she figures nobody cares
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| Teen years have us isolated thinking nobody there
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| Insecure about what to wear
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| She hates the person that’s in the mirror
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| But as a teen, all we seen was light skin with pretty hair
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| Teachers used to think that she was fast, all cos of how she looked
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| But jealousy don’t stop just cos they grown, you’ll learn that in no book
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| Her beauty was a burden
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| On the inside, she was still hurting
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| Never found herself and now she grown and still searching
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| It was…
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| She had posters all on her wall
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| Of her favourite artists, she’d call
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| Her girl to pick her up when she want to go catch niggas down at the mall
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| Don’t judge a book by its cover
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| I say judge a book by the authour
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| What no God is there if my father
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| Wanna go hit the club with his daughter
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| Daughter probably 'bout just as lost, she ain’t got no chance
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| Just a victim of circumstance
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| None of this shit was in the plans
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| Nah, not still living at home with her moms
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| Not get knocked up by no slob
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| Niggas spend all day playing 2K, ain’t thinking about no job
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| They say, «Girl, getchu an athlete,» like that mentality helps
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| She takes all kinds of abuse, dude, she don’t know how to fend for herself
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| Her mouth will tell you all kind of lies, but her eyes will tell you the truth
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| Behind that pretty face, there’s so much pain that we never knew
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| And that’s… Real! |