Father-LL Cool J

[00:03.12]I swear to tell the truth and nothin but the truth... [00:07.74]so help me GOD [00:08.85] [00:12.23]I just felt like tellin the story of my life [00:14.53] [00:15.98]Felt like, maybe somebody could be inspired, you know? [00:19.59] [00:23.46]We all feel pain, we all go through things [00:26.70]But it's time to overcome all that [00:28.27] [00:29.02]If your plane crashed in the water and everybody died [00:31.64]would you drown on purpose or try to survive? [00:33.95]I was born handicapped my arm wouldn't move [00:36.51]They called me a cripple pops caught an attitude [00:39.07]Beat my moms smoked lye drove trucks [00:41.43]My moms had a miscarriage, he didn't give a **** [00:44.50]He sniffed some coke, come home [00:46.37]Beat up on my moms cause she's talkin on the phone [00:48.62]Come on [00:49.49]all I ever wanted [00:50.70]All I ever wanted [00:51.76]all I ever needed [00:53.13]All I ever needed [00:54.44]was a father [00:55.32]was a father [00:56.50]that's all [00:57.31] [00:58.22]That's all! [00:59.16]all I ever wanted [01:00.58]All I ever wanted [01:01.89]all I ever needed [01:03.34]All I ever needed... was a father [01:05.83]was a father [01:06.77] [01:07.89]Moms got tired of the beatings said, "Yo, we got to go" [01:10.51]Packed up her bags we bounced out the do' [01:12.95]She said, "I ain't takin these whippin's no mo' [01:15.19]I wanna live to see my little Todd grow" [01:17.93]I remember tear drops on my pops face [01:20.69]Lookin down at me standin on the staircase [01:22.98]Handsome brother with a smooth goatee [01:24.99]Makes me wonder why he act so ugly, you feelin me? [01:27.67]I'm feelin you [01:28.72]all I ever wanted [01:29.67]All I ever wanted [01:30.72]all I ever needed [01:32.10]All I ever needed [01:33.22]was a father [01:34.16]was a father [01:35.10]that's all [01:36.10] [01:37.04]That's all! [01:37.92]all I ever wanted [01:39.42]All I ever wanted [01:40.73]all I ever needed [01:42.04]All I ever needed... was a father [01:44.72]was a fathe [01:46.65]My pops got drunk when me and my moms bounced [01:49.40]Swigged some Jack Dan', sniffed up a ounce [01:51.77]Grabbed the shotty left Long Isle for Queens [01:54.33]Possesed by a demon... a devil it seemed [01:57.14]I was too young to understand the risk [01:59.20]when your moms come home off the midnight shift [02:01.44]She turned around heard the shotgun click [02:03.81]My pops said, "You think that you could leave me?" [02:05.66] [02:07.11]He blasted my moms in the back [02:08.85]She fell down screamin I can't forget that [02:11.29]My grandfather tried to close the do' [02:13.40]He got shot ten times in the stomach yo, for real [02:16.97]all I ever wanted [02:18.34]All I ever wanted [02:19.53]all I ever needed [02:20.78]All I ever needed [02:21.84]was a father [02:23.21]was a father [02:24.46]that's all [02:25.89]That's all! [02:26.58]all I ever wanted [02:27.95]All I ever wanted [02:29.38]all I ever needed [02:30.38]All I ever needed... was a father [02:33.87]was a fathe [02:35.69]My head was spinnin, I had never seen blood [02:37.87]Four years old, this don't feel like love [02:40.37]Anyway, pops dissapeared [02:42.85]Grandpops and moms healed up over the years [02:45.24]This therapist got up in her head [02:47.73]Led her to believe without him she'd be dead [02:50.17]You know, they fell in love with one another [02:52.97]Everything seemed right that's word to mother [02:55.34]until I started gettin beatings everday [02:57.40]Sometimes for going outside to play [02:59.90]Late at night on my knees I'd pray [03:02.21]a young child, wishin the pain would go away [03:04.83]Dad where was you when he made me strip [03:07.13]Beat with belts like a slave with a whip [03:09.57]Kicked me down steps outside in the snow [03:11.94]Punched me in the chest stomped me out on the flo' [03:14.80]That's just the tip of the iceberg look [03:16.79]It's too long for a song but perfect for a book [03:19.41] [03:21.10]Word is bond, that's real baby [03:23.56] [03:24.87]all I ever wanted [03:26.81]All I ever wanted [03:27.81]all I ever needed [03:28.74]All I ever needed [03:30.12]was a father [03:30.85]was a father [03:32.05] [03:32.55]that's all [03:33.17] [03:33.73]That's all! [03:34.86]all I ever wanted [03:36.23]All I ever wanted [03:37.60]all I ever needed [03:38.66]All I a ever fatherneeded... was [03:39.45]was a fathe