Motherfather-Musiq Soulchild

[00:00.00]Mother And Father [00:05.73]Madonna [00:10.29] [00:19.73]There was a time I was happy in my life [00:24.22]There was a time I believed I'd live forever [00:28.73]There was a time I prayed to Jesus Christ [00:33.19]There was a time I had a mother it was nice [00:37.88] [00:46.99]Nobody else would ever take the place of you [00:51.37]Nobody else could do the things that you could do [00:55.98]No one else I guess could hurt me like you did [01:00.31]I didn't understand, I was just a kid [01:05.01]Oh mother, why aren't you here with me [01:09.15]No one else saw the things that you could see [01:14.25]I'm trying hard to dry my tears [01:18.24]Yes father, you know I'm not so free [01:22.93]I've got to give it up [01:25.15]Find someone to love me [01:27.26]I've got to let it go [01:29.58]Find someone that I can care for [01:31.80]I've got to give it up [01:34.09]Find someone to love me [01:36.32]I've got to let it go [01:38.66]Find someone that I can care for [01:41.16] [01:50.12]There was a time I was happy in my life [01:54.74]There was a time I believed I'd live forever [01:59.34]There was a time I prayed to Jesus Christ [02:03.65]There was a time I had a mother it was nice [02:08.66]Oh mother, why aren't you here with me [02:12.58]No one else saw the things that you could see [02:17.66]I'm trying hard to dry my tears [02:21.66]Yes father, you know I'm not so free [02:26.24]I've got to give it up [02:28.36]Find someone to love me [02:30.57]I've got to let it go [02:32.90]Find someone that I can care for [02:35.12]I've got to give it up [02:37.44]Find someone to love me [02:39.64]I've got to let it go [02:42.00]Find someone that I can care for [02:44.37]My mother died when I was five [02:46.53]And all I did was sit and cry [02:48.80]I cried and cried and cried all day [02:51.03]Until the neighbors went away [02:53.17]They couldn't take my loneliness [02:54.37]I couldn't take their phoniness [02:55.56] [02:57.83]My father had to go to work [02:58.90]I used to think he was a jerk [03:00.10] [03:02.44]I didn't know his heart was broken [03:04.59]And not another word was spoken [03:06.84]He became a shadow of [03:09.12]The father I was dreaming of [03:11.44]I made a vow that I would never need [03:12.56]Another person ever [03:13.68]Turned my heart into a cage [03:14.80]A victim of a kind of rage [03:16.09]I gotta give it up(repeat) [03:22.79]I gotta give it up [03:24.93]I gotta give it up [03:27.32]Find someone to love me [03:29.61]I've got to let it go [03:31.82]Find someone that I can care for [03:33.93]I've got to give it up [03:36.32]Find someone to love me [03:38.50]I've got to let it go [03:40.84]Find someone that I can care for [03:43.06]Find someone that I can care for [03:45.38]Find someone that I can care for [03:47.62]I've got to give it up [03:49.75]I've got to give it up [03:51.27]I've got to give it up [03:52.97]I've got to give it up [03:54.53]I've got to give it up [03:56.15]I've got to give it up [04:01.23]I've got to let it go [04:03.47]I've got to give it up [04:05.80]Oh mother, oh father [04:10.32]I've got to give it up [04:17.14]I gotta give it up(repeat six times)