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Jamall Bufford "Time In Between Thoughts" CD
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Artist: Jamall Bufford
Album: Time In Between Thoughts
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lyrics
Sob Story Song
My brothers don't know each other, we barely know our sister
We don't even got no family pictures
We try to love each other from a distance, but it's hard to think something’s missin
Without typical sibling experiences from the beginning
But tell me this though, what is typical?
Momma raised me and my brother like a African ritual
Like Rafiki raised Simba in the openin scene
Like Kunta raised up Kizzy both hands holdin his queen
To the sky, my family ain’t the photoshop stock image
But we got the job finished when we clocked in and out
Momma ran the show like coach Popovich
Big brother was Tim Duncan with my pops dippin out
I guess that makes me young Kawhi then
The nice kid deadly but silent
No commercial endorsements but I'm worth your endorsement
Tryina carry the load, like I'm workin a forklift
You see the vision
This ain’t a sob story song
This ain’t a sob story song
This ain’t a sob story song
Just tellin you what’s goin on
My best friends used to pick on me because my skin is dark
Said you could only see my eyes teeth when I was in the dark
They called me African, like that was a bad thing
How was that considered an insult? I'm just askin
The crazy thing is, the crazy thing is
The same shit is goin on today with these kids
I said the crazy thing is, the crazy thing is,
The same shit is goin on today with these kids I see it
This ain’t a sob story song
Naw this ain’t a sob story song
This ain’t a sob story song
Naw just tellin you what’s goin on
Please don’t cry, don’t shed no tears
Love me now cus we still here
Please don’t cry for me
Please don’t cry for me
When TBT on Instagram come up
I can't even post no pictures of my family up
I don't even think my family owned a camera
But I know the one thing that we had was love
Black love, tough love, one love
When you love someone it's hard to unlove
The word love, what does it mean?
To different people it means different things
Some people got a funny way of showing love
Sometimes I think my people don't show enough
Then I remember we only show what's been shown to us
Slavery, Jim Crowin us and the war on drugs
So when I work with these young folk I try to show em something else
Even though it probably ain't enough to help
It's like a drop in a bucket a bucket in the Pacific
I try to toss em a nugget I'm lucky if someone gets it
Please don’t cry, don’t shed no tears
Love me now cause we still here
Please don’t cry for me
Please don’t cry for me
Please don’t cry, don’t shed no tears
Love me now cause we still here
Please don’t cry for me
Please don’t cry for me
Please don’t cry, don’t shed no tears
Love me now cause we still here
Please don’t cry for me
Please don’t cry for me
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