Til The War Is Won

[00:10.95] You know I love you different, my queen, my mother, sister
[00:14.01] Protect you with my life, let's desconstruct the myth, uh
[00:16.97] You just depressed a bit, and only good for sexin' with you
[00:19.91] Let's dismantle that, it's a man you lack
[00:23.46] You don't need us, you could handle that
[00:25.38] Let's see where the black family at
[00:27.69] We need each other, with bad tempers, we defeat each other
[00:30.87] Single mothers, my heart's bleeding for you
[00:32.70] These coward men, that were beating on you (never me)
[00:35.43] Let's silence them, with a silencer
[00:38.12] For the violence of relationships
[00:40.01] Hold your head up, don't take that shit, run away from it
[00:43.48] I shoulda ran away myself, the amount of pain I was dealt
[00:47.50] And I'm a man, my job is to help
[00:50.55] Single parent home, came up, now the man is grown
[00:53.45] Mom's gone, pop's here, wish God reversed the roles
[00:55.65] (Sometimes) If I could've chose, subsidized housin'
[00:58.95] Sometimes witnessin' the most foulest things would arouse us
[01:01.88] We became numb like pure 'caine on the tongue
[01:04.42] To the pains from economical strains
[01:07.42] Diabolical games put on our future kings
[01:10.03] And our future queens, y'all the strongest ones (yeah)
[01:13.08] May God gives strength to women who lost their sons
[01:16.13] I give all I have 'til the war is won (ooh, woah, oh-oh)
[01:19.50] We're nothing without our women
[01:21.82] I give all I have 'til the war is won (yeah)
[01:27.33] I give all I have
[01:29.68] 2020 flows, everything getting exposed ('xposed)
[01:32.57] Who really the bros? (Bros) Who really is goals? (Goals)
[01:35.25] Who ready to let it go, all the grudges we hold
[01:38.09] It's too many fallen soldiers NY to the 'Go (Chi-Town)
[01:40.93] Late night outside, you hear the 40 drum (baow)
[01:44.07] In every ghetto and all the slums (for real)
[01:47.06] These laws made to slaughter us (damn)
[01:49.45] I give all I have 'til the war is won
[01:51.43] I was servin' out my mama crib
[01:52.85] She ain't know about it (she ain't know about it)
[01:54.24] Complaining about my rent, but I know my mama got me (my mama got me)
[01:56.90] She told me to be a man
[01:58.26] And never sleep through problems (sleep through problems)
[01:59.87] University of the streets, I ain't plan on going to college (oh, yeah)
[02:02.51] Why you crying 'bout low income and welfare?
[02:04.68] You ain't the only one going through it, this everywhere
[02:07.85] Better hold your head, I know it don't feel fair
[02:10.21] Reason my people dead and they know I still care
[02:13.14] Depending on the people, then you gotta do better
[02:15.91] Black lives matter, I'm for real, it do matter (for real, it do matter)
[02:18.87] Black on black crime, they still do it to whoever (whoever)
[02:21.59] Talking to the trenches, we just gotta do better (do better)
[02:24.19] He think he Martin Luther
[02:25.50] But he tryna be a shooter (tryna be a shooter)
[02:27.22] Got his car took, he ride with guns in the Uber (in the Uber)
[02:29.83] I'm talking where we from
[02:31.08] We carry MACs, but no computers (no computers)
[02:32.35] He got out yesterday, but he went in when he was juvie (Chi-Town)
[02:36.65] Diabolical games put on our future kings
[02:39.60] And our future queens, y'all the strongest ones (yeah)
[02:42.39] May God gives strength to women who lost their sons
[02:45.52] I give all I have 'til the war is won
[02:47.78] She do the best to raise her young
[02:49.35] Ooh, she independent and she don't depend on no one
[02:53.22] We're nothing without our women
[02:54.81] Ooh, she independent, went from a girl to a woman
[02:59.92] One love to the single mothers
[03:01.80] (Ooh, oh, yeah, yeah)
[03:07.77] I give all I have 'til the war is won
[03:10.15] 'Til the war is won, we gotta stick together
[03:13.14] Women, stop chasing your man away
[03:14.81] Men, stop acting crazy, chasing your woman away
[03:17.75] We all we have 'til the war is won, yeah
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