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Since I've been born life's been hard Lived in roach filled apartments with dirt filled yards My mom did all that she can She was sick with cancer and getting used by men My mom had four kids and only one leg She was hurting so bad she could barely get out of bed We went from out west, to the projects, to the shelter Where was family when she needed them to help her Some nights we didn't have anything to eat We had used clothes and passed down shoes on our feet One day this man had my mom by her neck in the air He knew she was sick and what he did wasn't fair We were little kids but we helped all we could Two women pulled us in a room so he could beat her as he would I loved my mom to death because she never left our side Until she went into the hospital and didn't come out alive My life was far from the word glory I never saw my father or his people, but that's another story It seems like things only got woser When my mom passed that's the last I saw of my baby brother We got split up now it's just me and my sister By this time I'm really just shook up God put my grandparents in our lives to replace the pain But it stuck to me like an unremovable stain Why me, so many years I wondered why So hurt, I thought it will fill better if I were to die Life broke me down till I could barely stand If this didn't happen I wouldn't be the man that I am
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