Chali 2na Righteous Way
[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/
[Chorus] 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/
[Chorus] 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 ears/ 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/
[Chorus] 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
