Kawann Shockley - Hello Stranger (3:4) lyrics

Verse 1: I'm a product of Philly streets So my thoughts run really deep I was raised by a dope fiend And a grandmother that would smoke weed She would say, ‘don't be like them kids on the corner Get a better life' She would pray I ain't make no ba*tards of kids Maybe get a wife I was young mama's only son Feeling like I was soon to die Getting sick and tired of the guys And the teachers teasing me at junior high Cuttin' school I feel like my time's better spent at the arcade I'm a fool Guess that's how most drug dealing youth are made Yet and still I don't blame my absent dad for what I'm going through Though it's true It was hard, father I forgive you For you know not what you do In a sense it's because of you I'm the way I am I make music the way I can And I shed some truth when I make a jam And all the times that we never had Makes me want to be a better dad So the thought of leaving never that Me and Sha's[?] ties why sever that? So there ain't no anger, if you see me there ain't no danger If you greet me I ain't gon' hang ya If I'm speaking it's hello stranger so Chorus (Sheda B): Hello stranger Hello stranger Hello stranger Hello stranger Feels so good to see you back again, oh oh oh Feels so good to see you back again Verse 2: '98 I returned from the motherland looking for my mom I'll be straight when I saw her face It seemed like it was a waste of time Not because I ain't want to see her I ain't want to see her like she was All the weight she lost even how she talked You could tell the sister was on d** That was when I made up my mind That my mom should be dragged Up out of that crack house to a better way We could start with rehab She's mad trying to point a finger at Onstar ‘Cause I chased her out the bar But she'll thank me later for being hard, God This a roller coaster going up and down with my emotions As I dream I see overdoses, I gotta focus If I'm the Moses of my peeps if We in Egypt I must lead them into their freedom I must teach them although the evening May be long it is but a season That's the reason I cross the seas and Brought this reason upon the region And I'm speaking to hill of grieving Even if stones I'ma see them I believe when I ain't breathing All my loved ones I'm gonna see them I'ma greet them on that day and it'll be deep Because I'ma say, aye Chorus (Sheda B): Hello stranger Hello stranger Hello stranger Hello stranger Feels so good to see you back again, oh oh oh Feels so good to see you back again