Prodigal Son - Barely(Prodigal Son)

I barely made it
But your love and kind
Seen us through

Growing up as a kid
Searching for some kind of love

Has so many thoughts in my
mind
Where can i find love

Ask my mother questions about
it
She didn't know much

All she knew was running
the
Streets and smoking on drugs

Gone for weeks at a time
When will she show up

When she came back to the
house
She bought another thug

Always wasn't living this way
Them drugs messe her up

Back in the early eighties
When cracked showed up

Must have been a powerful
drug
To take my mama's love

We was left to fence for
ourselves
We eaten free lunch

Hopping from school to school
So we can get enough

Really mess my brother's my
Sister's and myself up

Knocking on the neighbors
door
But noone open up

Noone never cared enough
To show us any love

So we stop complaining about
life
And stepped our game up

Told my little brother's and
Sister's its time we get up

Rena mika dee rodelle
Yall wake up it's no more
Summertime free lunch
Is over
We gotta find away to make it

We not going to lay here and
die
I got to get us up

So i came up with a plan
To get those dollars up

Started putting food on the
table
Life looking up

Lord you was there all the time
Them trials build me up

Remember when them boys
Try to jump me

I have to knuckle up
Really didn't know how to fight

I had to toughen up
Try to take the money i had

To feed my siblings
I had a big heart and a half
They didn't get nothing

didn't get bruised up
Now that's a father's love

Kept me out of harm's way
Away from all the thugs

Life was just beating me up
I never turn to drugs

Made some mistakes in my life
That made me grow up

That drive that you put down
in me
It made me stand up

Father you such a good
God
I want the world to know

Barely made it through as a
child
But then you show up

Barely made it through as a
child
But then you showed up

Written by:
kenneth Fletcher

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