Mary J. Blige - All That I Got is You lyrics

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(with Ghostface Killah)<br />

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Intro:<br />

Yeah, ohh yeah, this one goes out,<br />

to all the families that went through the struggle,<br />

yeah, from the heart, it was from the heart, everything was real<br />

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yo, dwelling in the past, flash back when I was young<br />

who ever thought that I would have a beby girl and 3 sons<br />

I'm going through this difficult stage I find it hard<br />

to believe why my old earth had so many seeds<br />

but she's an old woman and do to me I respect that<br />

I saw life for what its really worth and took a step back<br />

family ain't family no more, we used to play ball<br />

eggs after school, eat gritz cause we were poor<br />

grab the plyers for the channel, fix the hanger on the T.V.<br />

rockin each others pants to school wasn't easy<br />

we survived winters snauty nose with no coats<br />

we kept it real but the older brother still had a joke<br />

sadly daddy left me at the age of six<br />

I didn't know nutin' but mommy neatly packed his shit<br />

she cried, and grandma held the family down<br />

I guess mommy wasn't strong enough, she just went straight down<br />

check it, 15 of us in a three bedroom apartment<br />

roaches everywhere causons and aunts were there.<br />

4 in the bed, 2 at the foot, 2 at the head<br />

I didn't like to sleep with Jon-Jon, he peed the bed<br />

pluckin roaches out the cereal box<br />

we shared the epoon, watchin saturday cartoons<br />

sugar water was our thing, everymeal was no thrill<br />

in the summer school lunch held us down like steel<br />

and there was days I had to go to Shea's house with a note<br />

"Shea and Gloria can I borrow some food I'm dead broke"<br />

so embarrasin I couldn't stand to knock on the door<br />

my friends might be laughin, I spent stamps in stores<br />

mommy where's the toilet paper, use the newspaper<br />

look Ms. Rose bought us a couch, shes the neighbor<br />

2 brothers who must led this defeat kiiled me<br />

but I remember this mom's would lick her finger tips<br />

to wipe the cold out of my eye before school wit her spit<br />

case worker had her runnin back for face to face<br />

I caught a case worker, trying to throw us out our place.<br />

sometimes I'm lookin back and analyze the sky,<br />

goodnight<br />

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outro<br />

sometime I'm lookin back and analyze the sky<br />

let myself rock wasn't meant to be so hard<br />

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Mary J. Blige: (Chorus)<br />

All that I got is you<br />

And I'm so thankful I made it through<br />

(3x)<br />

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I sit and think about all the times we did without rain<br />

I always said I wouldn't cry, when I saw tears in your eyes<br />

I understand that daddy's not here know,<br />

but some way or some how, I will always be around<br />

All the things that I did from yesterday<br />

oh from drugs to being bad<br />

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