(Told that im supposed to fail)
i wouldn't amount to much of nothin.
yes i pray
there was days i wondered if you really loved me.
but baby you feel pain.
mama was (savin a pair) like runnin away.
i couldn't take it.
so (hinted) and angry with all of the world.
i couldnt keep friends just wishin you'd come back and see
my difficult times bein an adolescent.
and like so many just like me without a shoulder to lean.

i needed you
when i needed a father figure.
i needed you
to stop me from makin a wrong decision.
at seventeen, when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.

i need, i needed you.
i need, i needed you.

(told that i'm supposed to fail)
i wouldn't amount to much of nothin.
yes i pray
there was days when i wondered if you really loved me.
but baby you feel pain.
mama was (savin a pair) like runnin away.
i couldnt take it.
so (hinted) and angry with all of the world.
i couldnt keep friends just wishin youd come back and see
my difficult times bein an adolescent.
and like so many just like me without a shoulder to lean.

i needed you
when i needed a father figure.
i needed you
to stop me from makin a wrong decisions.
at seventeen, when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
when temptation was calling me, didnt know which way to go.
i needed you.
i need, i need, i needed you.
i needed you.
i need, i need you.
seventeen when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
when temptation was calling me, didnt know which way to go.

mama had no financial help
and thoughts of breakin the law came.
seen her tryna hold down two jobs was tearin up on me(had away).
all my friends was (gettin in it)
it came time for me to get that dough.
wrong (from) right i had to go for what i know.

i needed you
when i needed a father figure.
i needed you
to stop me from makin a wrong descision.
at seventeen, when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
when temptation was calling me, didnt know which way to go.
i needed you.
i need, i needed you.
i needed you.
i need, i need you.
seventeen when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
when temptation was calling me, didnt know which way to go.

[[(know id break. gimme strength forget them and i know all that i hate all that. even though the pain of this was too heavy. know id break. show me that a brothers growin know without a father had a turn with a day adolscent to a legacy. know id break.)

from the knowledge i aint get
God, you gave me.
and temptation was callin me, didnt know which way to go.

i needed you
when i needed a father figure.
i needed you
to stop me from makin a wrong decision.
at seventeen, when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
when temptation was calling me, didnt know which way to go.