Father LL Cool J

[00:01.99] I swear to tell the truth and nothin but the truth [00:05.35] So help me God [00:12.70] I just felt like tellin the story of my life [00:15.15] Felt like, maybe somebody could be inspired, you know [00:20.09] We all feel pain, we all go through things [00:26.57] But it's time to overcome all that [00:28.78] If your plane crashed in the water and everybody died [00:31.38] Would you drown on purpose or try to survive? [00:33.91] I was born handicapped my arm wouldn't move [00:36.23] They called me a cripple pops caught an attitude [00:39.58] Beat my moms smoked lye drove trucks [00:41.26] My moms had a miscarriage, he didn't give a fuck [00:44.16] He sniffed some coke, come home [00:46.11] Beat up on my moms cause she's talkin on the phone [00:48.55] Come on [00:49.12] All I ever wanted [00:50.58] All I ever needed [00:51.61] Was a father [00:56.45] That's all! [00:58.78] All I ever wanted [01:01.54] All I ever needed [01:04.10] Was a father [01:07.75] Moms got tired of the beatings said Yo, we got to go [01:10.57] Packed up her bags we bounced out the do' [01:13.01] She said, I ain't takin these whippin's no mo' [01:15.68] I wanna live to see my little Todd grow [01:17.87] I remember tear drops on my pops face [01:20.19] Lookin down at me standin on the staircase [01:23.12] Handsome brother with a smooth goatee [01:24.60] Makes me wonder why he act so ugly, you feelin me [01:27.13] I'm feelin you [01:28.39] All I ever wanted [01:30.57] All I ever needed [01:33.33] Was a father [01:35.53] That's all! [01:37.56] All I ever wanted [01:40.11] All I ever needed [01:42.92] Was a father [01:46.35] My pops got drunk when me and my moms bounced [01:49.41] Swigged some Jack Dan', sniffed up a ounce [01:52.15] Grabbed the shotty left Long Isle for Queens [01:54.02] Possesed by a demon... a devil it seemed [01:56.97] I was too young to understand the risk [01:58.91] When your moms come home off the midnight shift [02:01.84] She turned around heard the shotgun click [02:03.62] My pops said, You think that you could leave me bitch [02:06.44] He blasted my moms in the back [02:08.81] She fell down screamin I can't forget that [02:11.34] My grandfather tried to close the do' [02:13.19] He got shot ten times in the stomach yo, for real [02:16.51] All I ever wanted [02:19.39] All I ever needed [02:21.88] Was a father [02:24.15] That's all! [02:26.44] All I ever wanted [02:29.29] All I ever needed [02:31.85] Was a father [02:35.51] My head was spinnin, I had never seen blood [02:37.89] Four years old, this don't feel like love [02:40.66] Anyway, pops dissapeared [02:42.62] Grandpops and moms healed up over the years [02:45.52] This therapist got up in her head [02:47.74] Led her to believe without him she'd be dead [02:50.28] You know, they fell in love with one another [02:52.15] Everything seemed right that's word to mother [02:55.49] Until I started gettin beatings everday [02:57.24] Sometimes for going outside to play [03:00.25] Late at night on my knees I'd pray [03:01.10] A young child, wishin the pain would go away [03:04.60] Dad where was you when he made me strip [03:06.76] Beat with belts like a slave with a whip [03:09.85] Kicked me down steps outside in the snow [03:11.51] Punched me in the chest stomped me out on the flo' [03:14.44] That's just the tip of the iceberg look [03:16.47] It's too long for a song but perfect for a book [03:20.55] Word is bond, that's real baby [04:39.05]