Testi Let It Go - Emilio Rojas, Lecrae

Let It Go

Yeah yeah\nI’m trying to get through to you, you don’t listen\nJust hear me out\nYou’re too young to look that tired, too sweet to be that sad\nAny moment it all could end, so please treat the day like your last chance\nI know that’s family that you’re caring for, I know you’re feeling so obligated\nI ain’t saying don’t help at home but your sister’s son, you ain’t gotta raise\nhim\nYou sacrificed your life, when she wouldn’t even sacrifice her night\nYou babysitted, playing with him, when she wasn’t acting right\nDon’t you got your own dreams, own goals, it ain’t right that you gotta put\nthem on hold\nYou went to school but now you don’t go because you’re scared she’s gonna leave\nhim home alone\nYou walking in the crib and she passed out again\nYour nephew crying on the floor, his ass is out again\nBecause she done smoked up all the diaper money\nAnd so you laugh to keep from crying trying act as life is fucking funny\nAnd I know when you showing them love that you’re just trying to help\nBut your life will be passing you by if you don’t get it done for yourself\nAnd the way that you’re doing it now I’m afraid that it’s affecting your health,\nbecause you’re living for somebody else.\nYoung girl, young girl\nSo much on your plate\nAnd you just one girl, one girl\nLife ain’t gonna wait for them to let you go\nSo I think you gotta let it go\nThey don’t want you to leave, they want you to stay\nBut you should be pulling away if nobody is pulling they’re weight\nAnd it’s okay, you wanna live a little in your own way\nMaybe you would get your bills payed if you didn’t have to pay for her mistakes\nYeah, and you?, you worry about them, you’re terrified\nAnd you’re scared to move like you’re paralyzed, and the guilt will eat you\nlike a parasite\nShe living all reckless, going on benders acting offensive, right\nAnd you’ve given up friendships, given up men, you’ve given up every night\nAnd you’ve given up paychecks, and you pay the rent just save them\nShe complicating your life because she wanna act so damn basic\nAnd you take it because you want approval\nDon’t you know that they wanna use you, don’t you know that it’ll ruin you\nAnd you gotta leave, it ain’t wrong to do you\nAnd I know when you showing them love that you’re just trying to help\nBut your life will be passing you by if you don’t get it done for yourself\nAnd the way that you’re doing it now I’m afraid that it’s affecting your health,\nbecause you’re living for somebody else.\nYoung girl, young girl\nSo much on your plate\nAnd you just one girl, one girl\nLife ain’t gonna wait for them to let you go\nSo I think you gotta let it go\nIt ain’t about what you will do or you won’t do\nBut are you willing to do, anything that he want to\nBecause he don’t want you, he want you to just run through, many men,\nplenty sin, pretty slim chance he’ll hold you\nHe tells you that you’re beautiful, he tells you that you’re fine\nHe tells you to go hit the strip and go flip a trick for them dimes\nLittle mama must be sick, because she’s cold than a mother\nLooking like her daddy pitching because she throwed than a mother\nAnd you ask her why she do it, say she do it for the money\nPlus a couple shots of this and she’ll go do it for a hunned\nShe’s a young girl, young girl, no class, dumb girl\nBut that don’t mean you can’t change, and that don’t mean you’re done girl\nAnd I told her «Little mama don’t lower yourself to be a esteemed.»\nYou were made in God’s image, I can see that in your genes\nAnd they all up in your jeans, but that don’t mean you’re nothing lesser\nI’ll leave that money on a dresser, get dressed and keep your respect\nBecause you’s a\nYoung girl, young girl\nSo much on your plate\nAnd you just one girl, one girl\nLife ain’t gonna wait for them to let you go\nSo I think you gotta let it go