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that's it
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you've decided decided that this is the way you want to live
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well you tell that to mama
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boy tonight when you put him to sleep tonight on that living room sofa
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tell that to my wife when she is slaving over someone's dirty laundry
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you tell it to yourself mama when you fixin dinner in someone's kitchen
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and your own family can't afford to eat
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Walter where you goin?
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I'm goin out
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I'll come with you
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I don't want you to come
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Walter I gotta talk to you about something
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that's too bad
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Walter Lee, sit down
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I'm a grown man mama
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ain't nobody said you wasn't grown
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you in my house in my presence and as long as you are you will talk to your wife
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civily...now sit down
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no, let him go. He makes me sick to my stomach
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you turn mine to baby
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wlater lee
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that was my biggest mistake
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what is wrong with you?
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nothin
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is wrong with me
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oh yes there is something wrong with you....you bein mean to her like a crazy man
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and there is something mo to me not giving you this money this ain't
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like you. For the past two years I've been wathcing you get all nervous
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acting wild in the eyes....I'm not finished talking to you
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I don't need your naggin right now
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mama
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so what you gonna do? go somewhere and drink?
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seem like you always tied up in a knot about something ready to bust out any time anybody
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say anything to ya
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Walter, Ruth is a good an patient girl in her way. But you gettin to be too
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much son. Oh don't make the mistake of driving that girl away from you
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my mistake? What she ever do for me?
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That girl loves you Walter
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are you thru?
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cause if it alright with you, I'd like to go out please
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I'm sorry son, I'm sorry about your liquir store, but that just aint the thing for us to do
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I gotta go out mama
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That's dangerous son
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what's dangerous?
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that. when a man got to go outside his house to find peace
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where else I'm gonna find it?
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not in this place
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what is it? what is it son? what's wrong?
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Mama, so many things...I want so many things
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it's kind of driving me crazy!
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what is it that you want baby?
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you got a nice wife, a fine boy, you got a job
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a job? a job mama?
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mama, I open and close car doors all day
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I drive a man around who looks right through me
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I say "yes sir" "no sir" "shall I take the drvie sir?"
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Am I the best trained monkey you ever seen sir?
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Mama that aint no kinda job, that aint nothin
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why do I even think you gonna understand me?
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understand what, baby?
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Sometimes when I'm drivin that man around and we passin the pool
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fancy and theses white boys
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these white boys they just talkin
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abou things, important things, I just know that they closing million dollar deals
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I know they are
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and mama, these white boys don't look much older than me
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so once again, it's money
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yes its about money, cause money is life
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Money is life?
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I remember a time when freedom used to be life, but now its money?
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Have times changed that much?
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No they haven't changed its always been about money
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we've just never been allowed to get close enough to see it
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nooo, something has changed
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in my time if we could make it to the north without being lynched
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and still have a shred of dignity, that was a lot
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but now here come you and and Benetha
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you talkin bout things that go right past me
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and you my children
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but sometimes you might as well be strangers
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you don't understand, you probably never will
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son you know your wife is expecting another baby..
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what?
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I know it ainy my business to be sayin this, but you need to know
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cause I think Ruth is thinkin of gettin rid of it
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you don't know her if you think she would do somthin like that
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yes I would too Walter
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I already made plans
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what?
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gave the woman a down payment
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well son it is your turn to say somethin....
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and I'm waitin to see how be your father's son
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cause your wife is thinking about destroying your child
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waitin to hear your father in you speak
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and hear you say your people who give life, not take it away
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now I',m waitin
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now I'm waiting to see you stand up be the man your daddy was
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well if yousuch a man tell her
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you a disgrace to your father's memory
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(music playing)