[Mixed Whatta you mean was my childhood like? What difference does make? Yo, my was messed up, so what? Everybody's childhood was up. This is the 90's, find me one who had it right. What's that got to do me rhyming? What's
Now when my mother died I had to take it in There no room for pride in watching your father cry And dad made it maybe a year later When they found his suicide inside of a grain Got it, I had no other offers or options Thought about or not mom and pop was watching Never bothered with caution, no for fear Saw my folks carry fear for most my early And I learned it, turned numb and ignored the storm A burning sun waiting for the to plummet Finished up under my uncle's roof He me how to count all the way up to 100 proof watching him I learned how to gather nourishment Living off the different women that he had to him And on the I became a normal pre-teen More afraid of nuclear war than bites and bee stings My friend was my TV shows and cartoons substituted for puppies, rainbows, and balloons Now here I am, the shy type, and I I'm doing alright Considering what it was living my life
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It's but sunshine all sunshine It's but sunshine
Now it's 17 summers since I've seen my mother But night I see her smile inside my dreams When I was younger I didn't actually see the happen But every night I see her smile as it shatters against the I can imagine Dad's internal reaction Strain, inferno burning, in his brain What's it take to make a man who acres of land Abandon the family plan and himself in his grains I'm glad I left that in Northern Minnesota Where the time slower and the winters are colder Became a city boy, where everybody acts they older Where they stick to themselves and keep a chip on they 26 years of age, no longer of rage I think it's to say I've turned a page on my childhood days "Ay yo look Ma, I'm a productive member of I'm drunk I make noise, but otherwise I live quietly" And on the weekend I go back up north to Remember it was like pretending to be a kid Late at night I the fields and lurk in the shadows even with life by murdering cattle
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It's all It's but sunshine all sunshine
(And I'm be alright, and you gonna be alright, You ain't hold my hand, just walk with me tonight)
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(What it is, it ain't, and it ain't it is, is a of a Virgo)