Horseshoe G.A.N.G. - Dear Ol Dad lyrics

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Dear ol' dad, dear ol' dad

Just know that, I've been so mad

But now I'm grown, I should know

Why'd you go? Why'd you go?

Dear ol' dad, dear ol' dad

Just know that, I've been so mad

But now I'm grown, I should know

Why'd you go? Why'd you go?

I mean damn how could you

Conceive me then leave me

Understand it wasn't easy believe me

I don't wanna hear that

A life with no pops isn't easy

And all them loving families on TV deceive me

When I was small I overheard moms call

Begging you to retrieve me and feed me

She hung up and told me you were

Eager to see me to spare my feelings

But all you fed me was

Lies and stories to mislead me

Let me stop you there

I did have other reasons

For why I could not be there

I did have other seeds and

I thought how could I be fair

To not only you and your mother

But as well my two baby mothers

Your two other brothers

I do kind of understand that

I've got two baby mothers

But take for responsibility

For what you do under covers

Before I grew up I wondered

Why you never left a clue or a number

Or at least came through at least once in a summer

To leave food for my hunger

Well often I thought of you as I slumbered

I was just a screw up often in jail

Doing some numbers

Over ounces you know the game

Had issues I never overcame

And so I never came over

And over years I became more ashamed

I never had it together

I feels it but whatever you never had

We could’ve just never had it together

Real shit no matter the weather

For my kids I never will split

I don't get it

Dear ol' dad, dear ol' dad

Just know that, I've been so mad

But now I'm grown, I should know

Why'd you go? Why'd you go?

Dear ol' dad, dear ol' dad

Just know that, I've been so mad

But now I'm grown, I should know

Why'd you go? Why'd you go?

Pops this is officially

The first time we ever spoke

I'm a better man than

I would of ever hoped to be

You see but I grew up hella broke

Hey I heard you was self employed

Yeah I was selling dope

Did what I had to do

But I ain't mad at you

When men mature

There's many roads we travel through

I was on pain road then anger boulevard

Then I traveled through

I don't give a fuck avenue

This just my attitude

But questions I have a few like

How could you not raise your son?

I don't have a clue

They say the apple don't fall far

From where the apple grew

But I raised my son so

I'm the reason that ain't true

Ok you spoke your peace son

Now let me speak my peace too

First off let me say

I'm pleased to meet you

I know you have a lot of questions

But answer me this

Did you ever consider

I wasn't financially fit?

To handle a kid couldn't even

Buy Pampers and shit

Couldn't stay afloat so

I had to abandon the ship

Oh word my nigger?

You got some nerve my nigger

You coulda been flippin birds

Or even flippin' burgers nigger

You use a lack of income as the excuse

But I couldn't make ends meet

Income’s the excuse

Look maybe I should be thankin you

Why's that?

Your absence taught me a lesson

That your presence wasn't able to

Dear ol' dad, dear ol' dad

Just know that, I've been so mad

But now I'm grown, I should know

Why'd you go? Why'd you go?

Dear ol' dad, dear ol' dad

Just know that, I've been so mad

But now I'm grown, I should know

Why'd you go? Why'd you go?

If we met in person then

I would have questions

But the first I would ask would be

If you wish you would have stayed?

You were never there so

I don't miss you I got over all my issues

But I still wonder if you had stayed

Would I be changed?