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J. Cole
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[Verse 1]
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Look, I just shed tears homie and now I ain't to proud to admit it
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Just seen my father for the first time in a minute
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And 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 ain't know no better
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Thought 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 that's 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 it may be that anger's to blame
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But that's no excuse, only you and God know the truth
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And why you only call monthly, barely ever saw me
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Spend some summers with you and played with my cousin Maury
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Maybe I should be tellin' you fuck you cause you selfish
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But I want a father so bad, I can't help it
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I break down, I break down
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Can't help but break down
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[Verse 2]
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I never thought I'd see my mama on that shit, man
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It's fucking with her body, now she sick, damn
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I wanted a big house with a 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 servin' 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, I heard the cops be shooting niggas
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I swear to god, wish I could bullet proof my niggas
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Can't get no jobs, but they still recruiting niggas
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We tryna stand tall when it get to crucial niggas
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Break down! We break down..
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[Verse 3]
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He's serving time, locked down
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And she don't want nobody to know, 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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Ain't no doubt she love him -- yeah that's for sure
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But temptation stays round
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And if she strayed, how could he ever 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 holla
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But she never speaking, but tonight I see the devil creeping
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Cause she been lonely, she ain't felt a man in 7 seasons
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Damn! She do the best that she can
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Her mama telling her to find another man
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She college educated with a felon boyfriend
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That's what she thinking tonight
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Maybe she's right, but please
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Stay down mama! Gotta be strong, don't break down mama!
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Please..
J. Cole – Sideline Story (Official Music...
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