Mama Told Me Lyrics

[Refrain: Chino XL & Akili Nickson]
She said she should've done this
She should've done that
Pack my bags and never look back
Some things that I've seen I can't un-see
I've spent my whole life just trying to get free
And I'm never gonna be…without my pain and misery
But I remember what my mama told me (Mama told me)
Mama told me (Mama told me)
I remember what my mama told me

[Verse 1: Chino XL]
I scramble to my feet to regain consciousness
The floor half full of blood, I'm a pessimist
It makes sense for me to make my exodus
This scene flashing through child monic movie images
I was nine years old with spine hemorrhages
Just me and him was in the house, no witnesses
All I'm thinking is, how I'm a live through this
He unclenched his fist, my face grimaces
I don't reminisce, I remember the stress
Feeling nervousness when he came home up the steps
Mom he beatin' me bad first escaped my lips
She said that I was a fuck up and I deserved this shit
What could I have possibly done I was only nine
With fucking stitches in my eye she told me stop crying
I'm looking for a sign, the sun don't ever shine
I'm an only child; they say that love is blind

[Refrain: Chino XL & Akili Nickson]
She said she should've done this
She should've done that
Pack my bags and never look back
Some things that I've seen I can't un-see
I've spent my whole life just trying to get free
And I'm never gonna be…without my pain and misery
But I remember what my mama told me (Mama told me)
Mama told me (Mama told me)
I remember what my mama told me

[Verse 2: Chino XL]
Now in retrospect as a father looking back
Having my own flesh of my flesh
There's no excuse for that
I also have heard that what don't kill us make us stronger
But the abuse that I took, took away my hunger
Living inside my imagination I learned hate
Planning my escape, losing my personal faith
She blamed it on the drugs; she blamed it on the times
She blamed on her moms, but I'm the one with scarsChino XL - Mama Told Me - http://motolyrics.com/chino-xl/mama-told-me-lyrics.html
Staring at that chipped paint wall in my room
I'm 13 years old now I gotta do something soon
It was the 6th of June inside my mouth was a bloody wound
My step father vowed to put in me in a tomb
Momma told me my real daddy didn't want me
I figured this new man must be special if she let him hurt me
Now I ain't have a mother, and he ain't have no mercy
Why did god curse me? Maybe I'm meant to suffer

[Refrain: Chino XL & Akili Nickson]
She said she should've done this
She should've done that
Pack my bags and never look back
Some things that I've seen I can't un-see
I've spent my whole life just trying to get free
And I'm never gonna be…without my pain and misery
But I remember what my mama told me (Mama told me)
Mama told me (Mama told me)
I remember what my mama told me

[Verse 3: Chino XL]
I finally decided that I wouldn't take it no more
I had a steak knife that I've been hiding in my right drawer
He had punch my right jaw just the night before
I stood silently outside his bedroom door
But every breath I took I felt like there was angels with me
Soon his death would be a mystery even to me
I saw a shadow move, he finally coming through
I swung a knife at dude, if I had only knew
The life slipping out a body was my mom dukes
I had no idea that she was in the room too
Wiping tears from my eyes this can't be true
My step father drunk in the bed still off cheap brew
I knelled down to momma to hear a last truth
She said son I never loved him more than you
I still hate myself, I tried to hang myself
The leather belt broke, that was 20 years ago

[Chino XL & Akili Nickson]
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She said she should've done this
She should've done that
Pack my bags and never look back
Some things that I've seen I can't un-see
I've spent my whole life just trying to get free
And I'm never gonna be…without my pain and misery
But I remember what my mama told me (Mama told me)
Mama told me (Mama told me)
I remember what my mama told me