Father Figure - TJ Porter

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Winners Circle

Father figure

I never met me a harder nigga

You wasn’t there but I started with you

Supposed to be with me regardless, nigga

Father figure

I never met me a harder nigga

You wasn’t there but I started with you

Supposed to be with me regardless, nigga

In the field, it’s so cold

You suposed to be with me

But you movin' different and you movin' too bold

And that shit hit me, yeah, it hurt me, felt it all in my soul

Did you even want me?

Yeah, that’s one thing that I wanted to know, yeah

The streets raised me, I did it all on my own

You crazy, nigga, you left me alone

I had to learn me the struggles of being a man, you know it

I got a chopper, was tryna run me up them bands, yeah, yeah, yeah

This shit is sad, the way that you move, you know I ain’t feelin' that

Now you’re missing your kid, you wish you was here, but no, I ain’t hearin' that

Me and mama, we was struggling crazy, seem to call on the daily

Dead broke and nobody could save me, hit the world screamin', «Pay me»

If I have me a kid, you know that I’m stayin', it’s never a choice

Had to turn to a man, the music and pain, it gave me a voice

Shit is so cold, hurt me in my soul

You lost your kid forever, I’ma let you know

Father figure

I never met me a harder nigga

You wasn’t there but I started with you

Supposed to be with me regardless, nigga

Father figure

I never met me a harder nigga

You wasn’t there but I started with you

Supposed to be with me regardless, nigga

In the field, it’s so cold

You suposed to be with me

But you movin' different and you movin' too bold

And that shit hit me, yeah, it hurt me, felt it all in my soul

Did you even want me?

Yeah, that’s one thing that I wanted to know, yeah

Times change

I grew up, don’t care if you don’t come around no more, my brain

Is programmed to see when you walkin' up out of the door

I had to go after school, was actin' real cool, but that shit was fuckin' me up

I had to fight and pick up a gun in the streets, but that shit just toughened

me up

Then mama, she had met a man

Swear to God he showed me a hundred bands

Swear that I was on the run

But we held it down, he took care of the fam

I done been through it all

Gunshots, but it started with brawls

Seein' dead bodies lay on the floor

Man, I swear that I been through some wars

When I walk through the streets, I gotta look over my shoulder

I had beef with some niggas who wasn’t just fighting, I bought me a toaster

Then pops found the gun in my room, ain’t tell mama, no, he never told her

He showed me how to put it to use, and said, «Nigga, you gettin' older,» yeah

Father figure

I never met me a harder nigga

You wasn’t there but I started with you

Supposed to be with me regardless, nigga

Father figure

I never met me a harder nigga

You wasn’t there but I started with you

Supposed to be with me regardless, nigga

In the field, it’s so cold

You suposed to be with me

But you movin' different and you movin' too bold

And that shit hit me, yeah, it hurt me, felt it all in my soul

Did you even want me?

Yeah, that’s one thing that I wanted to know, yeah