Get Thru

Back in 1999 everybody was fine Cleveland Ohio yeah das where I reside
I was, eatin off dem foodstamps but my belly was full
My mama strugglin she did what she could, look
All of the sudden My Pops came down with somethin
The docs said it was spreading all in his lung n
He only had a couples of months to live, that's somethin I didn't get, confused cause a nigga was just a little kid
Time passed my dad kept gettin weaker
The reaper stalkin, n hawkin, I couldn't stop him, I remember
The last time I saw him I was bein lazy as fuck
He Fell to the pavement gettin groceries outta the trunk
One day I came home, my momma gave me this look
I ain't gon cap yeah a nigga was shook, she told me
He was gone, he stopped breathing dis morning Dough
My mama hugged me hard n we started mournin yo

I told my mama we gon get up out this rut Dough
Been thru too much, it feel like a nigga stuck bro
I see the hurt in her eyes, but it's okay Dukes
It's natural jus let it out das what the pain do
It's been a tough life mama but we gon get thru
We gon get thru promise yeah we gon get thru
It's a long road ahead but we gon get thru
We gon get thru promise yeah we gon get thru

Years went by a lil nigga start to produce, kinda confused so I signed up for school, listen
Dat shit was hard as fuck everybody in there already knew all dis music shit made me feel like a stupid kid
I kept goin my family dey was so proud of me
Apathetic niggas surrounded me, yeah they doubted me
But it's cool dough, the hate motivate, thru all the tribulations I made it thru school dough
And my brother needed surgery suffered from the Crohn's
Couldn't get no nutrition, he was skin n bones
Doctor called us up one morning we ain't know what it was
Up at the hospital they pullin the plug
I watched my brother die, right in front of my eyes intensive care my oldest brother, he wasn't there
It was too much all of the shit they done been thru
Took his Smith N Wesson put it thru his temple

I told my mama we gon get up out this rut dough
Been thru too much, it feel like a nigga stuck bro
I see the hurt in her eyes, but it's okay Dukes
It's natural jus let it out das what the pain do
It's been a tough life mama but we gon get thru
We gon get thru promise yeah we gon get thru
It's a long road ahead but we gon get thru
We gon get thru promise yeah we gon get thru

We gon get thru
We gon get thru
Promise yeah we gon get thru
I promise yeah we gon get thru