[Intro]
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Yeah
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Yeah
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[Verse 1]
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Look, I just shed tears, homie, and I aint too proud to admit it
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Just seen my father for the first time in a minute
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When I say a minute, I mean years, man
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Damn, a whale could have swam in them tears, fam
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‘Cause as I left em I reflected on my younger days
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When it was just me and my brother and my mother played
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Father, cause no other man bothered
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Not even my biological, it never seemed logical
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But I accepted it cause I aint know no better
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Though I was brighter than a Polo sweater
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No pops was like Martin with no Coretta
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So many things you could have told me
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And saved me the trouble of letting my mistakes show me
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I feel like you barely know me
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And thats a shame cause our last name is the same
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That blood type flowing through our veins is the same
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My mama left you, and maybe your angers to blame
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But thats no excuse, only you and God know the truth
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And why you only called monthly, barely ever saw me
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Spend some summers with you and played with my cousin ‘Bari
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Maybe I should be telling you, “fuck you” cause you selfish
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But I want a father so bad, I cant help but…
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[Chorus 1]
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Break down
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I break down
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Cant help but break down
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I break down
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[Verse 2]
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Yeah, I never thought Id see my mama on that shit, man
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Its fucking with her body, now she sick, damn
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I wanted a big house with the white picket fence and a pool
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Who would have ever thought that it would come to this, man?
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Quicksand is what this life feel like
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That shit these rappers kick is nothing like real life
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You made a milli off of serving hard white? Yeah, right
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My mama tell you what addicted to that pipe feel like
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Stupid niggas, aint heard the cops be shooting niggas
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I swear to God, wish I could bulletproof my niggas
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Cant get no jobs, but they still recruiting niggas
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We trying to stand tall when it get too crucial niggas
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[Chorus 2]
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Break down, we break down
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We break down, we break down
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Break the break down
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[Verse 3]
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Yeah, hes serving time, locked down
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And she dont want nobody to know
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His daughter 25 pounds
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By the time he get out, she gon be 4
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Now will his girl stay down?
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Aint no doubt she love him, yeah thats for sure
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But temptation stays round
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And if she strayed, how could he ever know? Never know
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And so, she goes to the club on the weekend
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A little freaking, but them niggas holler, but she never speakin
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But tonight I see the devil creeping
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‘Cause she been lonely, she aint felt a man in seven seasons
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Damn! She doin the best that she can
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Her mama tellin her to find another man
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She college educated with a felon boyfriend
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Thats what she thinkin tonight
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Maybe shes right, but please
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[Chorus 3]
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Stay down mama
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Gotta be strong, dont break down mama
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Please
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Stay down mama
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Gotta be strong, dont break down mama
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Dont break down
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Yeah, dont break down
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Dont break down
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Dont break down
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Uh, break the break down…
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[Outro]
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Break, break down
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Steady break me down
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Break, break down
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Steady break me down
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Break, break down
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Steady break me down
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Break, break down
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Steady break me down…
