C. Fontaine - Gender Wars lyrics

[Intro] *vocalizing* Tell me how hard.....(x4) [Verse 1]: Lord, pleeeease take me back to the late 90s When our lifestyle was scruffy and nasty Let me witness the weakness my daddy displayed for my momma, who was always twisting up his panty She was a jealous one. He probably was a player but he couldn't handle the heat, that's why he had to run A tigress, that's how much I could've testified to. She kept swinging a cutla**; my n***a wasn't that sprung Different stories at both ends: how he left his son to attend to some hoe's child. How she was threatened with welfare and maybe proposed trials Lord, you wouldn't have a house if they had planned to walk your aisle So if they were really heeding Your words, I wouldn't have to be here wondering who should I love more Kicking the crib and crawling on all fours, screaming out "Momma don't hit him no mo'." [Hook]: Now tell me whose example I should follow. Tell me whose persona I should borrow I just wanna be a better man, but all men are considered dogs. It's hard to swallow Tell me why should I become their shadows And hang myself on society's gallows I'm sick and tired of these f**ing wars I control my life. You free to run yours [Verse 2]: Mary Jane smoke filling the house like incense, while my sister baby daddy slapping her wall to wall breaking furniture, like a wannabe Christopher. Claiming that she'd never leave him but I'm a quick learner Always pull up pumping dancehall and reggae. Plaits swinging, pants sagging, puff puffing steady Kept a straight facade to his little girls. Starting petty sh** with Momma, I feared a gun was at the ready Yet, my sister was at his side still. No matter how many hoes he f**ed around with, she was up to tossing Momma's plants and tables and clothes out for him. I shouldn't have seen it, should've been inside snoring But I wasn't, and I was scarred thus. You don't want these problems between us Today, too much friction between opposite genders and terms for simple love is hard to discuss [Hook] [Outro]: (Tell me how hard) it is to live a life plain and simple, stress free and gone from the mental? (Tell me how hard) it is to hide the veins in my temple, treat and be treated gentle? (x2)