[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:03.12]I swear to tell the truth and nothin but the truth [00:07.74]So help me GOD [00:12.23]I just felt like tellin the story of my life [00:15.98]Felt like  maybe somebody could be inspired  you know [00:23.46]We all feel pain  we all go through things [00:26.70]But it's time to overcome all that [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 f**k [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 [00:58.21]That's all [00:59.15]All I ever wanted [01:00.57]All I ever wanted [01:01.88]All I ever needed [01:03.33]All I ever needed    was a father [01:05.82]Was a father [01:07.88]Moms got tired of the beatings said  "Yo  we got to go" [01:10.50]Packed up her bags we bounced out the do' [01:12.94]She said  "I ain't takin these whippin's no mo' [01:15.18]I wanna live to see my little Todd grow" [01:17.92]I remember tear drops on my pops face [01:20.68]Lookin down at me standin on the staircase [01:22.97]Handsome brother with a smooth goatee [01:24.98]Makes me wonder why he act so ugly  you feelin me [01:27.66]I'm feelin you [01:28.71]All I ever wanted [01:29.66]All I ever wanted [01:30.71]All I ever needed [01:32.09]All I ever needed [01:33.21]Was a father [01:34.15]Was a father [01:35.09]That's all [01:37.03]That's all [01:37.91]All I ever wanted [01:39.41]All I ever wanted [01:40.72]All I ever needed [01:42.03]All I ever needed    was a father [01:44.71]Was a fathe [01:46.64]My pops got drunk when me and my moms bounced [01:49.39]Swigged some Jack Dan'  sniffed up a ounce [01:51.76]Grabbed the shotty left Long Isle for Queens [01:54.32]Possesed by a demon    a devil it seemed [01:57.13]I was too young to understand the risk [01:59.19]When your moms come home off the midnight shift [02:01.43]She turned around heard the shotgun click [02:03.80]My pops said  "You think that you could leave me " [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 [03:21.10]Word is bond  that's real baby [03:24.86]All I ever wanted [03:26.80]All I ever wanted [03:27.80]All I ever needed [03:28.73]All I ever needed [03:30.11]Was a father [03:30.84]Was a father [03:32.54]That's all [03:33.72]That's all [03:34.85]All I ever wanted [03:36.22]All I ever wanted [03:37.59]All I ever needed [03:38.65]All I ever needed    was a father [03:39.44]Was a fathe