I Needed You

Told that I'm supposed to fail,
I wouldn't amount to much of nothing.
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 running away.
I couldn't take it.
I Soon hit ten, angry with all of the world.
I couldn't keep friends, just wishing 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 making 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 nothing.
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 running away.
I couldn't take it.
I Soon hit ten, angry with all of the world.
I couldn't keep friends, just wishing 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 making the wrong decisions.
At seventeen, when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
When temptation was calling me, didn't 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, didn't know which way to go.

Mama had no financial help
And thoughts of breaking the law came.
Seen her tryna hold down two jobs,
Was tearing up on me had a way (had a way).
All my friends was getting in it
It came time for me to get that dough.
Wrong or 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 making the wrong decisions.
At seventeen, when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
When temptation was calling me, didn't 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, didn't know which way to go.

Lord I pray. Give me strength to forgive them and not all the I hate I got.
Even though the pain of this was too heavy. Lord I pray.
Show me all brothers growing up without a father had a turn with a day adolescent to a legacy.
Lord I pray.

From the knowledge I ain't get,
God you gave me.
And temptation was calling me, didn't know which way to go.

I needed you
When I needed a father figure.
I needed you
To stop me from making the wrong decisions.
At seventeen, when the cold of the world had my back up against the wall.
When temptation was calling me, didn't know which way to go.