[00:00.00] 作词 : Blige, Coles, Diggs, Gordy ...[00:00.04] 作曲 : Mary J. Blige/Robert Diggs, Jr./Dennis Coles/Frederick Perren/Alphonso Mizell/Berry Gordy/Deke Richards[00:00.09]What dey gives you blood ?[00:02.65]Three months man[00:05.35]Whatchu doin' in here anyway ?[00:08.24]You oughta be home with your momma[00:10.26]How old are you boy ?[00:12.79]Thirteen[00:14.50]Thirteen ? Damn ![00:17.56]The bastards must be runnin' outta niggaz to arrest[00:19.83]Yeah oh yeah[00:21.11]This goes out to all the families that went through the struggle[00:27.23]Yeah from the heart[00:31.68]It was from the heart everything was real[00:37.27]Yo dwellin' in the past flashbacks when I was young[00:40.05]Whoever thought that I'd have a baby girl and three sons[00:42.84]I'm goin' through this difficult stage I find it hard to believe[00:45.75]Why my old Earth had so many seeds[00:48.54]But she's an old woman and due to me I respect that[00:51.32]I saw life for what it's really worth and took a step back[00:54.05]Family ain't family no more we used to play ball[00:56.82]Eggs after school eat grits 'cause we was poor[00:59.52]Grab the pliers for the channel fix the hanger on the TV[01:02.21]Rockin' each others pants to school wasn't easy[01:04.98]We survived winters snotty nosed with no coats[01:07.55]We kept it real but the older brother still had jokes[01:10.43]Sadly daddy left me at the age of six[01:13.15]I didn't know nothing but mommy neatly packed his shit[01:15.93]She cried and grandma held the family down[01:18.57]I guess mommy wasn't strong enough she just went down[01:21.37]Check it fifteen of us in a three bedroom apartment[01:24.09]Roaches everywhere cousins and aunts was there[01:26.94]Four in the bed two at the foot two at the head[01:29.95]I didn't like to sleep with Jon Jon he peed the bed[01:32.24]Seven o'clock pluckin' roaches out the cereal box[01:35.10]Some shared the same spoon watchin' Saturday cartoons[01:38.01]Sugar water was our thing every meal was no thrill[01:40.66]In the summer free lunch held us down like steel[01:43.55]And there was days I had to go to Tex house with a note[01:46.07]Stating "Gloria can I borrow some food I'm dead broke"[01:48.86]So embarrasin' I couldn't stand to knock on they door[01:51.62]My friends might be laughin' I spent stamps in stores[01:54.35]Mommy where's the toilet paper use the newspaper[01:57.69]Look Ms. Rose gave us a couch she's the neighbor[02:00.11]Things was deep my whole youth was sharper than cleats[02:02.85]Two brothers with muscular dystrophy it killed me[02:05.66]But I remember this mom's would lick her finger tips[02:08.11]To wipe the cold out my eye before school wit her spit[02:10.91]Case worker had her runnin' back to face to face[02:13.47]I caught a case housin' tried to throw us out of our place[02:16.46]Sometimes I look up at the stars and *sexyze the sky[02:19.28]And ask myself was I meant to be here[02:22.36]Why ?[02:25.66]Yeah yo[02:28.28]All that I got is you[02:33.13]And I'm so thankful I made it through[02:38.66]All that I got is you[02:44.15]And I'm so thankful I made it through[02:49.83]All that I got is you[02:55.14]And I'm so thankful I made it through[03:00.80]All that I got is you[03:06.46]And I'm so thankful I made it through[03:13.55]I sit and think about all the times we did without yeah[03:24.12]I always said I wouldn't cry when I saw tears in your eyes[03:34.76]I understand that daddy's not here now[03:39.42]But some way or somehow I will always be around yeah[03:45.64]All things that I did from this to them[03:49.67]Oh from drugs to being there[03:52.72]Being down and out and I love you always[04:03.63]Yeah you say you see the universe[04:09.52]Which consists of the sun moon and star[04:14.20]And them planets that exist in my space[04:19.57]Like man woman and child you understand ?[04:25.07]We got to keep it real and what reality[04:27.08]And reality will keep it real with us[04:30.49]I remember them good ol' days[04:33.59]Because see that's the child I was[04:36.08]What made me the man I am today[04:39.97]See 'cause if you forget where you come from heheh[04:44.30]You're never gonna make it where you're goin' aheh[04:47.64]Because you lost the reality of yourself[04:52.01]So take one stroll through your mind[04:55.37]And see what you will find[04:58.00]And you'll see a whole universe all over again[05:00.54]And again and again and again and again[05:02.97]Heheheh yeah heheheheh aha heheheh