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L.L. Cool J
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I swear to tell the truth and nothin but the truth...
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so help me GOD
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I just felt like tellin the story of my life
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Felt like, maybe somebody could be inspired, you know?
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We all feel pain, we all go through things
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But it's time to overcome all that
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Verse One: LL Cool J
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If your plane crashed in the water and everybody died
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would you drown on purpose or try to survive?
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I was born handicapped my arm wouldn't move
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They called me a cripple pops caught an attitude
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Beat my moms smoked lye drove trucks
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My moms had a miscarriage, he didn't give a fuck
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He sniffed some coke, come home
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Beat up on my moms cause she's talkin on the phone
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Come on
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Chorus: LL Cool J and singers
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(all I ever wanted)
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All I ever wanted
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(all I ever needed)
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All I ever needed
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(was a father)
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was a father
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(that's all)
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That's all!
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(all I ever wanted)
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All I ever wanted
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(all I ever needed)
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All I ever needed... was a father
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(was a father)
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Verse Two: LL Cool J
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Moms got tired of the beatings said, "Yo, we got to go"
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Packed up her bags we bounced out the do'
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She said, "I ain't takin these whippin's no mo'
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I wanna live to see my little Todd grow"
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I remember tear drops on my pops face
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Lookin down at me standin on the staircase
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Handsome brother with a smooth goatee
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Makes me wonder why he act so ugly, you feelin me?
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(I'm feelin you)
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Chorus
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Verse Three: LL Cool J
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My pops got drunk when me and my moms bounced
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Swigged some Jack Dan', sniffed up a ounce
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Grabbed the shotty left Long Isle for Queens
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Possesed by a demon... a devil it seemed
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I was too young to understand the risk
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when your moms come home off the midnight shift
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She turned around heard the shotgun click
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My pops said, "You think that you could leave me?"
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He blasted my moms in the back
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She fell down screamin I can't forget that
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My grandfather tried to close the do'
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He got shot ten times in the stomach yo, for real
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Chorus
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Verse Four: LL Cool J
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My head was spinnin, I had never seen blood
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Four years old, this don't feel like love
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Anyway, pops dissapeared
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Grandpops and moms healed up over the years
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This therapist got up in her head
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Led her to believe without him she'd be dead
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You know, they fell in love with one another
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Everything seemed right that's word to mother
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until I started gettin beatings everday
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Sometimes for going outside to play
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Late at night on my knees I'd pray
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a young child, wishin the pain would go away
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Dad where was you when he made me strip
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Beat with belts like a slave with a whip
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Kicked me down steps outside in the snow
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Punched me in the chest stomped me out on the flo'
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That's just the tip of the iceberg look
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It's too long for a song but perfect for a book
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Word is bond, that's real baby
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Chorus
LL COOL J - I Need Love
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