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Mama


Mama you was never there

Everything i've been through you hadn't come

You was busy poppin pills and gettin high on drugs

Left me at home with no guidance ain't nobody to show

Fuck the man leaving the house on a daily

While you was there on the street gang banggin

That how demarcus and lil bro turned out messed up

But who was there to tuck me in and cover me up?

No one to read to me, no one to kiss me good night

The only sounds i heard were them gun shots in the middle of the night

Wake up blood on the street no witness

You locked up before my 6th birthday

Gone out my life how am i supposed to get

Between now and birth you ain't been there yet

you a stranger nothing to get around

Let me get beat but no scar to be found

Had everyone thinking it was all fine and coo 

But in reality i had no one walking me home from school

You not a mama you a stranger in the dark

Can't even look..i lost everything from you but now i restart...

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trulil12

I'm 15. i'm a sophomore I love football and I had a hard life

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<p>tell me how you like it....</p>

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