SINCE YOU LEFT - Intellectual

[Verse]

Damn I been feeling like hell

Instead of talkin' you yell

Them babies is crying for help

The ghetto is never yo friend

Society won't hold your hand

Variety, all of the struggles you see

The scars on they skins, they still smile anyway, hope for a better day

And since you left it ain't been same

Moms on that 9 to 5

Pops on that where he at?

Baby sis made it out, I'm happy

I'mma be the head and that's soon

The ties won't tie no more

What was you thinking when you left

Us all alone, no house, no bills paid

I'm tryna kick it like sensei

I'm sorry I that couldn't drop on my bday

And ever you since you left I been feeling like a man

[Bridge]

Ever since you left we ain’t been outta town

Ever since you left momma ain’t talk about you not anymore

Ever since you left my sisters been trippin' bruh and

Ever since you left I been missing and I

Look like you

[Verse 2]

And since you left I been feeling like a man, I'm tryna command

I'm throwing these orders and my siblings been

Tripping, they don't know where we come from, and you don't too

If I could I would've left you

But you wanna act up

So it's cameras and action

Documenting this life

I'm practice what I preach

Do it better than a Reverend

Painting vivid pictures with a spray can

I feel like Dane Stops, and I promise that

I can't stop, where have you been?

Heard you got a son

Is he bright like me?

Does he have a lazy eye?

Or I'm just the only one?

[Bridge]

Ever since you left

I been feeling crazy

Ever since since you left I been feeling foresaken

Ever since you left feeling like I don’t belong

I been feeling like I wanna die, I been feeling like I can’t live

Ever since you left, I been feeling like I am alone

Ever since you left I been feeling alone, aye

[Verse 3]

You never came to your senses

What's it's like to be a dad?

You don't know whats that

But to leave your kids behind

Man that's so fucking wack

It ain't 'bout black dads

It ain't 'bout who came back

Stop pointing fingers where you

You lack, I just wanna see you back

Momma mad you ain't here

Like she doing this on her own

Now I'm 20 years old

Never contributed to my soul

You ain’t a man, you ain’t a man

(you ain’t a man, you ain’t a man)

Ever since you left I been mad

Ever since you left I know momma never finding peace

Ever since you left your daughter is being loved by another man

Ever since you left, I been feeling less of a man

What is a man? you tell me

Aye, baars