Corey Paul - Seventeen lyrics

Mama raised me on Southpark One of the few that done made it out I'm not impressed with the slick talk I really lived what these rapper writing bout' No embellishment, youngin' talking for a settlement Quite intelligent, but we'll go dumb and let that metal bent Medicine, mixing with the soda, got em' high as Yoda Jedi focus for a check, Obi-Wan Kanobi Nobody shoulder stroking, condolence, we just had to get it And maybe, I'll try to do better if I knew the difference I grew up with my cousin water whipping in the kitchen Azo and daddy bought a pack, [?] Whitney That change your vision a little when you set your mission They call it thugging and ghetto, but hey, that's how we living They spitting on our block, and they call it rain Since my patna' ate his pistol I ain't been the same I lost my daddy to the dopeman I got pain, I got pain I'm still dealing with Almost lost my brother to the street I got pain, I got pain I'm still dealing with Lord save me, I was seventeen I got pain, I got pain I'm still dealing with Know you going through, I'ma pray for you But, I be going through it too, hope you pray for me Thought that I was far away from God, he forgot about me If he got me living how I'm living, how he care about me? Granny taught me, "Betta bust some [?] off my weight" Brought my problems to the church, my lil' patna' bought a K Had my faith in a Ruger, then I put it in the Lord My partner riding dirty God, please protect the squad When times get hard, all I ever knew was hustle Now, times get hard, all I got to do is trust you And I do, all that I been through, ain't no way I lose 92', Q up on the roof, I done got the Juice Truth, I done lost my daddy to the noose when I was 9 But, God heal pain, it just take a little time I lost my daddy to the dopeman I got pain, I got pain I'm still dealing with Almost lost my brother to the street I got pain, I got pain I'm still dealing with Lord save me, I was seventeen I got pain, I got pain I'm still dealing with Know you going through, I'ma pray for you But, I be going through it too, hope you pray for me So many people Suicide, genocide, pick a side Any side Any side do just fine We must fight til' he say time