Understandin'

Yea Uh I'm just lookin for understandin Uh I just need some understandin Yea I just need some understandin Just a word Uh Was sposed to lead my people to the promised land Thousands of years, we ain't treated like the common man Making jingles for the singles and the contraband Mass shootings every week, this shit is out of hand Feeling like the evil flourish, good people perish Didn't protect yo meekest servants while they deep in worship A stranger showed up, they showed love Nine lives was taken in cold blood Lord i don't understand it I'm just lookin for understandin It's crazy, i don't understand it Lord i'm lookin for understandin Guess we had us an understandin And we connected on another level Wasn't love, yet and still, it was somethin special Family problems at the crib, guess i was the refuge Sweetest girl i ever met, plus i loved the sex, too Two months, i ain't even get a message Shit i heard you was expectin It ain't mine? Had to double check boo A year later you call my phone all alone I guess his house not a home but damn Guess we had us an understandin Guess ya man couldn't understand it Shit crazy don't understand it Momma, thank you for understandin Picture being the reason that yo momma cried When i grew to be your height, we ain't see eye to eye Times got harder and we dialed my father You remarried, so he hit us with some fly reply Never bad mouthed him, kept him from his son Never held a grudge, like what's done is done And yea you made your share of mistakes But did whatever it takes, forever wearin the cape Noone could ever debate, shit i was makin em too 05' started slackin on probation in school, damn Easily the hardest thing for me to tell ya 20 years of sacrifices, I erased in three semesters Could've been in Time Magazine, i wanted The Source All this love and support and i keep coming up short Tellin me how you proud, i can't even fathom how My loudest fan up in the crowd Mama thank you for understandin Yea, i appreciate understandin I'm just lookin for understandin