Testo Know You - Pro, Rick Trotter

Know You

See I grew up like «screw the world, «it's me against it\nAnd if it’s life after death, then I don’t wanna live it\nSo confused man, 2Pac he discipled me, Biggie he made me classy\nIn a fatherless household, hip-hop became my pappy\nThe rage grew inside of me, I hated my daddy\nBut when I seen him in the summer I can’t front, it made me happy\nThank the Lord for my momma, did the best that she can\nBut ain’t no way a woman could ever show a man to be a man\nRaised two kids on her own, with a small amount of cash\nBut it really got bad when she married my stepdad\n'Cause he put poison in his body, fiendin' for that white\nGot his check, hit the block, couple weeks, he outta sight\nCouldn’t trust him 'cause he was always tryna get me beat\nSaid if he did it one more time I swear I’d kill him in his sleep\nBut even though the pain made it hurt to grow\nI love you to this day, I forgive you and want you to know\nCan’t nobody take your place\nAnd even though you make mistakes\nI pray the Lord’ll give you grace 'cause I just wanna know\nI just wanna know\nI just wanna know\nI just wanna know you\nYour son who took the pain away\nI hope one day you’ll feel the same\nBut even if you never change I just wanna know\nI just wanna know\nI just wanna know\nI just wanna know you\nBefore I was married, me and my wife got into it real bad\nCalled my momma’s house, and guess who picked up? My stepdad\nI was cursing up a storm, he’d just listen and laugh\nSaid if you love I need to turn around and try to have a dad\nAnd right then, something in my heart began to crack\nHe had never dealt with me any way like Daddy\nDidn’t come to the wedding, but for some reason I wasn’t mad\nHad to realize the frailty of him and my dad\nThen it really got real when he fell into that coma\nDied a couple weeks later, couldn’t hug him if I wanna\nAnd when I saw him in that casket, couldn’t stop myself from crying\nLook how petty we can be, had to’ve wasted a lot of time\nInstead of loving like Christ, I would hate like a fool\n'Cause true love go beyond the way that people treat you\nSee even though the pain made it hurt to grow\nI love you to this day, I forgive you and want you to know\nCan’t nobody take your place\nAnd even though you make mistakes\nI pray the Lord’ll give you grace 'cause I just wanna know\nI just wanna know\nI just wanna know\nI just wanna know you\nYour son who took the pain away\nI hope one day you’ll feel the same\nBut even if you never change I just wanna know\nI just wanna know\nI just wanna know\nI just wanna know you\nI wish that I could take back every time I said in my heart «I wish you was\ndead»\nAnd wrap my arms around your neck and told you «I love you» instead\nThat’s what Christ did for us, we were enemies at one time\nThen he indwelled me with the Spirit for the renewing of my mind\nSee I deserved the cross, shoulda been me that was scourged\nBut the Father called us up to my place with his son\nWashed me in the blood of his perfect sacrifice\nAnd though I shoulda ate death, I was fed the bread of life\nSo a Christian means that we supposed to look like God\nThen the debt I owe him is more than you could ever charge\nBut the truth\nI should be dead off principle\nBut the gospel is that we are to forgive the unforgivable\nBless the despicable, we are all fallen men\nThey were used by the Lord to put my faith in his hand\nSo even though the pain made it hurt to grow\nI love you to this day, I forgive you and want you to know\nCan’t nobody take your place\nAnd even though you make mistakes\nI pray the Lord’ll give you grace 'cause I just wanna know\nI just wanna know\nI just wanna know\nI just wanna know you\nYour son who took the pain away\nI hope one day you’ll feel the same\nBut even if you never change I just wanna know\nI just wanna know\nI just wanna know\nI just wanna know you\nI just wanna know you