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curt kennedy - dad lyrics

[intro]
“happy father’s day… sort of”

[verse 1]
open letter to all black dads who left us
and what’s sad is they use that stat against us
in this way when i say that i feel some kind of way
they throwing back in my face that your daddy didn’t stay
so now i cannot say nothing about injustice or anything
i’m in touch with, ’cause your cowardice took you away
so how you feel when you look around at my generation
does it hurt you to see your lack of partic+p+tion?
made me stumble and fall right into this situation
you knew existed before i did ’cause you lived it, you gave me no indication
so now i’m struggling, man of the house, i’m juggling
statistically, poverty or some criminal punishment
awaits ’cause my judgment’s thugging, hating the government
if you hear this, dad, i hope you do, thanks for nothing, man

[hook]
i do not understand it
how could you leave me stranded
growing up on these cold blocks
hope this ain’t what a man is
don’t blame this on the white man
this is you and your cold heart
statistically now i’m doomed
to sit in a prison room
and cry when i hear the door lock
or thought of as just a predator
never achieving better
this cycle i’m on, it won’t stop
[verse 2]
open letter to all black dads who left mom
and what’s sad is they use that fact against mom
what would devastate us, we in the womb and
waiting to see the world ’til a doctor would prematurely take us
we felt the warmth of our mothers
and even heard your voice telling her you don’t want us
so she’s scared to see where life would take us
so she walks in a clinic, about my life, she’s a cynic
her friend is with her and trying to comfort her, saying
it’s probably for the best, isn’t it? nah, but i get no say
she can’t hear me, she barely feels me
because she hates you she hates me dearly
and now who i could be will never become reality
i hear a vacuum sound and then suction k!lling me gradually
thanks, dad

[hook]
i do not understand it
how could you leave me stranded
growing up on these cold blocks
hope this ain’t what a man is
don’t blame this on the white man
this is you and your cold heart
statistically now i’m doomed
to sit in a prison room
and cry when i hear the door lock
or thought of as just a predator
never achieving better
this cycle i’m on, it won’t stop
[verse 3]
open letter to all black dads who stayed there
and i’m so glad you did, but there’s some things we must make clear
like, please don’t have a criminal record
’cause they’ll use that against me, when police are wild and acting reckless
even if i got good grades, let’s say one day the police they wrongfully k!ll me
they just gonna highlight what you did justifying my death, it’s
kinda crazy but kinda normal, that’s why the rage be
over the top, sylvester stallone movie, the ’80s
it’s still shady, your criminal record plagues me
we can’t win, either you’re gone or with k!lling babies
it’s all sin, truth be told i know that they know what’s up
’cause they don’t talk solutions, they bring this up to tell me shut up

[hook]
i do not understand it
how could you leave me stranded
growing up on these cold blocks
hope this ain’t what a man is
don’t blame this on the white man
this is you and your cold heart
statistically now i’m doomed
to sit in a prison room
and cry when i hear the door lock
or thought of as just a predator
never achieving better
this cycle i’m on, it won’t stop
[outro]
“yeah, so y’all still hanging around. thank you. thank you for still listening to the appendix. we gon’ take a second now. in this song, i wanna highlight something i said specifically ++ ‘this cycle i’m in, it won’t stop.’ and that’s not actually true. there is one way to stop the cycle. and we gon’ talk about that next. but then after that, we gon’ deal with this idea that if i’m not raise by my dad and i’m black, that i’m pr+ne to criminality and violence. so let’s test that as we look back through history and see if that’s accurate. are we the ones really pr+ne to violence? let’s see.”

- curt kennedy lyrics

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