I Remember​

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Written by Mike Xavier

Stream song at http://smarturl.it/93d8z4

 

yo ask my mother and she’ll tell you I was almost born 
in the car we to used live in and her heart was torn 
fresh out the hospital we sleeping in the back of the car 
makes me wonder how I ever came to get this far 
tough times we hard knocks so our days ain’t bright 
so stressed I couldn’t even go to sleep at night 
remember people telling me I wouldn’t make it in life 
my mother crying telling me that we gone be alright 
and I grew up without a father and it hurt my soul 
every day I’d sit and wonder why he had to go 
I contemplate and ask myself what I did to this man 
to make him want to leave his son without a helping hand 
four kinds a single mother and the road was rough 
seem like everything we want to buy cost too much 
to anybody that supported know you got my love 
very few but if you did then you know who you was

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cause I remember getting paid off them welfare checks
remember getting food stamps feeling like we blessed
yes I remember
yes I remember
and I remember living life and it felt so hard
remember feeling like I just got to pray to god
yes I remember
yes I remember

 

and I remember when my grandpa passed my grandmother followed 
my uncle died the same year it was a hard pill to swallow 
the kind of pain that I ain’t never even felt before 
so sad I wouldn’t nver get to hug them no more 
remember when I acted crazy in those LA riots 
remember the drive-bys and the moments of silence 
remember waking up to find my mother screaming and crying 
cause my brother got shot we was scared of him dying 
there's no denying that I’ve lived a life of pleasure and pain 
steady struggling hoping just hoping that one day things change 
and it’s amazing that I even had the will to maintain 
went through so many things I wouldn’t want to go through again 
the only black kid in school they said I didn’t belong 
how could the color of my skin equate to me being wrong 
so I've opened up my heart to show you the lengths that I’ve gone 
so you can understand the passion and the hurt in this song

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cause I remember getting paid off them welfare checks
remember getting food stamps feeling like we blessed
yes I remember
yes I remember
and I remember living life and it felt so hard
remember feeling like I just got to pray to god
yes I remember
yes I remember