Told that I'm 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 would say when I felt like runnin' away.
I couldn't take it.
I Soon hit ten, angry with all of the world.
I couldn't keep friends, just wishin' you'd come back and see,
My difficult times being 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,
I wondered if you really loved me.
"But baby you feel pain."
Mama would say when I felt like runnin' away.
I couldn't take it.
I Soon hit ten, angry with all of the world.
I couldn't keep friends, just wishin' you'd come back and see,
My difficult times being an adolescent.
And like so many just like me, without a shoulder to lean.

I needed you