[The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
[Verse 1]
Through fights with mom/
And long nights you're gone/
Through all types of wrong/
I love my pops/
Through penitentiary/
Drug addiction and misery/
You defeated the enemy/
I love my pops/
Twenty some odd years/
Wiping my little sister's tears/
She missed dad, but where was my pops?/
To proud to tell us he was running from his demons/
And we're thinking that nothing could ever budge my pops/
But I used to wonder/
What put my moms under/
My pops and kept 'em together for seventeen summers/
I reminisce in my mind/
Me and my pops would find/
The time we spent it never seemed funner/
But I remember the day that he left/
Him and my mama they never nurtured their relationship/
And it went from Bonnie and Clyde/
To problems with money and pride/
Together they couldn't decide/
[Chorus]
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
[Verse 2]
Through parental separation/
And miscommunication/
I love my mama more than I love myself/
Along with grandmamma they played my two parents/
So you know I love them more than I love myself/
In and out of prison for stealing/
Illegally making a living/
But she taught me how to love myself/
Pops wasn't there to teach me 'bout the man inside/
I had to learn who he was myself/
I was the man of the house/
So my younger siblings looked up to me as the father that they never had/
Resentful of the fact/
My sister would talk smack/
And call him s**** donor, but never call him dad/
It's sad I know it gets lonely for my only brother/
'Cause him and his father never really got to know each other/
And those days I vowed for sure/
If I ever had a child I would chose/
[Chorus]
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
[Verse 3]
I became a parent at the age of twenty-one/
With no doubts or questions/
'Cause I love my son/
I fell for a woman same name as my mama/
Maintained heavy drama/
But I love my son/
Eleven years of love, lies and fears/
Closed our eyes and ears/
But because my son/
Had nothing to do with the reason we would fight for days/
We kept it together to raise my son/
In the beginning we would ditch school to see each other/
She quit school and ran away so we could be together/
Before I got paid for working my tongue/
The greatest moment that we shared was the birth of our son/
Another eight years passed til the day that I left/
And why's that? We never nurtured our relationship/
And it went bust and die/
'Cause of problems with trust and pride/
Together we couldn't decide/
[Chorus]
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
[Verse 1]
Through fights with mom/
And long nights you're gone/
Through all types of wrong/
I love my pops/
Through penitentiary/
Drug addiction and misery/
You defeated the enemy/
I love my pops/
Twenty some odd years/
Wiping my little sister's tears/
She missed dad, but where was my pops?/
To proud to tell us he was running from his demons/
And we're thinking that nothing could ever budge my pops/
But I used to wonder/
What put my moms under/
My pops and kept 'em together for seventeen summers/
I reminisce in my mind/
Me and my pops would find/
The time we spent it never seemed funner/
But I remember the day that he left/
Him and my mama they never nurtured their relationship/
And it went from Bonnie and Clyde/
To problems with money and pride/
Together they couldn't decide/
[Chorus]
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
[Verse 2]
Through parental separation/
And miscommunication/
I love my mama more than I love myself/
Along with grandmamma they played my two parents/
So you know I love them more than I love myself/
In and out of prison for stealing/
Illegally making a living/
But she taught me how to love myself/
Pops wasn't there to teach me 'bout the man inside/
I had to learn who he was myself/
I was the man of the house/
So my younger siblings looked up to me as the father that they never had/
Resentful of the fact/
My sister would talk smack/
And call him s**** donor, but never call him dad/
It's sad I know it gets lonely for my only brother/
'Cause him and his father never really got to know each other/
And those days I vowed for sure/
If I ever had a child I would chose/
[Chorus]
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
[Verse 3]
I became a parent at the age of twenty-one/
With no doubts or questions/
'Cause I love my son/
I fell for a woman same name as my mama/
Maintained heavy drama/
But I love my son/
Eleven years of love, lies and fears/
Closed our eyes and ears/
But because my son/
Had nothing to do with the reason we would fight for days/
We kept it together to raise my son/
In the beginning we would ditch school to see each other/
She quit school and ran away so we could be together/
Before I got paid for working my tongue/
The greatest moment that we shared was the birth of our son/
Another eight years passed til the day that I left/
And why's that? We never nurtured our relationship/
And it went bust and die/
'Cause of problems with trust and pride/
Together we couldn't decide/
[Chorus]
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so/
The righteous way to go/
Little one would know/
Or believe if I told him so