Righteous Way

[Hook] The righteous way to go Little one would know Or believe if I told him so The righteous way to go Little one would know Or believe if I told him so [Verse 1] Through fights with mom And long nights you're gone Through all types of wrong I love my pops Through penitentiary Drug addiction and misery You defeated the enemy I love my pops Twenty some odd years Wiping my little sister's tears She missed dad, but where was my pops? To proud to tell us he was running from his demons And we're thinking that nothing could ever budge my pops But I used to wonder What put my moms under My pops and kept 'em together for seventeen summers I reminisce in my mind Me and my pops would find The time we spent it never seemed funner But I remember the day that he left Him and my mama they never nurtured their relationship And it went from Bonnie and Clyde To problems with money and pride Together they couldn't decide [Hook] The righteous way to go Little one would know Or believe if I told him so The righteous way to go Little one would know Or believe if I told him so [Verse 2] Through parental separation And miscommunication I love my mama more than I love myself Along with grandmamma they played my two parents So you know I love them more than I love myself In and out of prison for stealing Illegally making a living But she taught me how to love myself Pops wasn't there to teach me 'bout the man inside I had to learn who he was myself I was the man of the house So my younger siblings looked up to me as the father that they never had Resentful of the fact My sister would talk smack And call him sperm donor, but never call him dad It's sad I know it gets lonely for my only brother Cause him and his father never really got to know each other And those days I vowed for sure If I ever had a child I would chose [Hook] The righteous way to go Little one would know Or believe if I told him so The righteous way to go Little one would know Or believe if I told him so [Verse 3] I became a parent at the age of twenty-one With no doubts or questions Cause I love my son I fell for a woman same name as my mama Maintained heavy drama But I love my son Eleven years of love, lies and fears Closed our eyes and ear But because my son Had nothing to do with the reason we would fight for days We kept it together to raise my son In the beginning we would ditch school to see each other She quit school and ran away so we could be together Before I got paid for working my tongue The greatest moment that we shared was the birth of our son Another eight years passed til the day that I left And why's that? We never nurtured our relationship And it went bust and die Cause of problems with trust and pride Together we couldn't decide [Hook] The righteous way to go Little one would know Or believe if I told him so The righteous way to go Little one would know Or believe if I told him so