Kick back while I tell you this little story of glory gone bad

I put the pen to the pad to touch something I never had

My son looks at me he's like "Yo it's up to you dad"

You know i'm glad that I got this chance to be a man my father could never be with responsibilities beyond fertility

It's killing me to think I was ever even your kid

The shit you never bothered to do

The shit you did go ahead and deny it, Justify it by lying

You can try and right your wrongs

Hope your nights don't last long

Yo, 'cause back in '80 I was just a baby maybe three years old but I can remember that cold December when my mother laid me down to sleep

I heard a hearty screech across the street

Stuffed under my sheets, felt my heart beat

That's when it all started

You bombard the front door, I dart across the floor to make sure my bedroom door was locked, jumped in the toy-box covered the lid and hid while you kicked the front door in

I flashed back to the sound of broken glass 'cause my white trash dad was whipping my mom's ass until the cops came

I remained in the same position until I was convinced you were restrained into submission just wishing that you didn't go to jail 'cause mom had to spend the Christmas on you so you could post-bail

You failed man. I said you failed man. Listen up I said you failed

There's no need for you to call me your son

I'm not the one. Can't you understand? Look what you've done

Man you've failed

Yo you failed and failed short

A negative role model who gave his toddler bottles of beer

The year's like 1982 when i'm at granny's house watching loony tunes on the couch with my big league chew

That's when mom came through sobbing and crying with two black eyes talking about "Ay yo Brian, we got to hide!"

I was afraid that you would give me a spanking

I grabbed a blanket off of the chair and ran for the stairs and told moms to follow me

I saw some shit on TV that would probably flop but we got to give it a shot

We ran to the attic in automatic mode

Threw ourselves on the floor like a goddamn laundry load

And pretty soon after that yo you came through like a bat out of hell but smoking crack, who could face that?

You must've known that granny baby-sat yelling "Where the hell is my goddamn family at?"

And I can tell mom was scared, I was bored, put my head on her shoulder because this had happened before

And I was four maybe five, lucky to be alive

To this day man, how did we ever even survive?

Yo you failed man. I said you failed man. Listen up I said you failed

There's no need for you to call me your son

I'm not the one. Can't you understand? Look what you've done

Because you've failed

I guess it's time for me to mention the fact you went to prison for six years and every Sunday I came to visit in penitentiaries getting strip searched but what's worse I went to elementary school and just cursed about the fact other kids had it better than me

You sent your letters to me telling me how you're gonna be free and how you're gonna take me under your wing and show me the things that only love from a father could ever bring

I felt the string

Every-time you lost control

When thrown in hole denied parole

The time you stole from me is time that i'll never get back

Your slipping like a tightrope with slack you've lost your grip and I won't forget the time '89 Thanksgiving

When moms dropped me off at the place that you were living

You were obliviously hitting, your car keys in the ignition the engine running in your back-yard

Felt hard when I opened the door, shit was bizarre

I must've caught you off guard, your car smelt like a bar

Is this a bad time to tell you about my report card?

Yo dad do you even know where the hell you are?

Yo you failed man. I said you failed man. Listen up I said you failed

There's no need for you to call me your son

I'm not the one. Can't you understand? Look what you've done

Bro you've failed

You know you failed but i'll never sweat it, never regret it, never let it get inside of my head or get embedded

Never letting you take the credit of being a father

Don't even bother with thoughts as a grandfather

You never even called or given my son a dollar

Never been involved, you don't even know him at all

I'm laying down the law because the last straw is broke

You think that life is a game, it's no joke because you choked

And you failed. I said you failed man. Listen up I said you failed

There's no need for you to call me your son

I'm not the one. Can't you understand? Look what you've done

You know you failed. I said you failed man. Listen up I said you failed

There's no need for you to call me your son

I'm not the one. Can't you understand? Look what you've done

Man you failed