Ghostface Killah, Mary J. Blige - All That I Got Is You lyrics

'What they give you, blood?'
Three months, man
Whatchu doin in here anyway?
You oughta be home
With your momma how old are you boy?'
Thirteen 'Thirteen? Damn
The bastards must be runnin'
Outta niggas to arrest'

Yeah, ohh yeah, this goes out
To all the families that
Went through the struggle
(All that I got is you) yeah, from the heart
(And I'm so thankful I made it through)
It was all from the heart
Everything was real

Yo, dwellin' in the past
Flashbacks when I was young
Whoever thought that I'd have a
Baby girl and three sons


I'm goin' through this difficult stage I
Find it hard to believe
Why my Old Earth had so many seeds
But she's her own woman
Due to me I respect that
I saw life for what it's really
Worth and took a step back
Family ain't family no more
We used to play ball eggs after school
Eat grit's cause we was poor
Grab the pliers for the channel
Fix the hanger on the TV
Rockin each others pants to
School wasn't easy we survived winters
Snotty nosed with no coats we kept it real
But the older brother still had jokes
Sadly, Daddy left me at the age of six
I didn't know nuttin' but mommy
Neatly packed his shit
She cried and grandma held the family down
I guess mommy wasn't strong enough
She just went down check it
Fifteen of us in a three bedroom apartment
Roaches everywhere
Cousins and aunts was there
Four in the bed, two at the foot
Two at the head i didn't like to sleep with
Jon-Jon he peed the bed seven o'clock
Pluckin' roaches out the cereal box
Some shared the same spoon
Watchin' Saturday cartoons
Sugar water was our thing
Every meal was no frill in the summer
Free lunch held us down like steel
And there was days I had to go
To Tech's house with a note
Stating, "Gloria
Can I borrow some food I'm dead broke"
So embarrasin' I couldn't stand to
Knock on they door
My friends might be laughin'
I spent stamps in stores
Mommy where's the toilet paper
Use the newspaper
Look Ms rose gave us a couch
She's the neighbor things was deep
My whole youth was sharper than cleats
Two brothers with muscular dystrophy
It killed me but I remember this
Moms would lick her finger tips
To wipe the cold out my eye
Before school with her spit
Case worker had her runnin' back
To face to face i caught a case
Housin' tried to throw us out of our place
Sometimes I look up at the
Stars and analyze the sky
And ask myself was I meant to be here, why?
Yeah, yo

All that I got is you
And I'm so thankful I made it through
All that I got is you
And I'm so thankful I made it through
All that I got is you
(Word up mommy, I love you)
And I'm so thankful I made it through
(Word up)
All that I got is you (It was all you, word)
And I'm so thankful I made it through
(You brought me in like this) yeah

I sit and think about
All the times we did without dad
I always said I wouldn't cry
When I saw tears in your eyes
I understand that daddy's not here now
But some way or somehow, I
Will always be around, yeah
All the things that I did from this to them
Oh from drugs to being there
Being down and out and I love you always, oh

Yeah, you say you see the universe
Which consists of the sun moon and star
And them planets, that exist in my space
Like man woman and child you understand?
We got to keep it real, and what reality
And reality will keep it real with us
I remember them good ol' days
Because see, that's the child I was
What made me the man I am today
See cause if you forget where you come from
Heheh you're never gonna make it
Where you're goin', aheh
Because you lost the reality of yourself
So take one stroll through your mind
And see what you will find
And you'll see a whole
Universe all over again
And again and again and again and again