My Life Video (MV)

(Sunshine)
If you take a look at my life
Would you see what I lived in my eyes
(Everybody needs the sunshine)
The agony from tragedies that I hide
Don't come across, cause I keep my head high
(Sunshine)
I had to fight through the pain
The obstacles and setbacks that I overcame
(Everybody needs the sunshine)
I didn't understand why it had to be that way
Now I realize, that's why I am that man today
Raised in a broken home
Single parent, mom's alone
Thought my dad was a temptation
Papa was a rolling stone
Should've been a plant though
One that annually showed
Like every winter when it snowed
Without the fun, just cold
Visits were strange
He would run game, on my mom's
Used time spent with me as a pawn
To get the queen's lucky charms
But at the end of this rainbow
Would be where the pain grows
Mom's and cocaine close
The rock type, not the nose
Back then, seemed like a trend
Thought the high nights would end
No longer sheltered from this harsh world
My eyes were forced open
To see my, home disappear
No Katrina, no flood
Hurricane hit D.C.
Flowing through the city's blood
Turned my, ghetto into a hood
An inner-city warzone
Trade respect for money
Earn that, then you're gone
Was the creed, by any means
We shed blood and sacrifice
Day and night, what's the price
My life, for the...
(Sunshine)
If you take a look at my life
Would you see what I lived in my eyes
(Everybody needs the sunshine)
The agony from tragedies that I hide
Don't come across, cause I keep my head high
(Sunshine)
I had to fight through the pain
The obstacles and setbacks that I overcame
(Everybody needs the sunshine)
I didn't understand why it had to be that way
Now I realize, that's why I am that man today
It wasn't enough,
For you to be an absentee
You added promises
To a list of things not achieved
That's what you'd do
With no intent of following through
Words with no actions
Them hollow I love you's
Thought you were coming through
That's what I told my crew
On that project stoop
But ain't no sign of you
No call, no apologies
No nothing
I must be Otis
'Cause you carried me like David Ruffin
While my mom's was strugglin'
You was mean muggin'
At the next man, raising your klan
So, why you buggin'
Asking me how he treat me
Like you care though
He ain't my real pop's
But at least he's there though
Led to anger problems
And some trust issues
Cried so many tears
This pen and pad my tissues
Thought my love would fix you
But you remained the same
For 50 years of my life
You ain't never change
(Sunshine)
If you take a look at my life
Would you see what I lived in my eyes
(Everybody needs the sunshine)
The agony from tragedies that I hide
Don't come across, cause I keep my head high
(Sunshine)
I had to fight through the pain
The obstacles and setbacks that I overcame
(Everybody needs the sunshine)
I didn't understand why it had to be that way
Now I realize, that's why I am that man today
Now, a father of five
Who can't deny, my transgressions
Passed down to my seed
Their curse, my blessing
Like Adam's sin is our sin
Until you're born again
Wish I could bear their cross
But every man must repent
So, as I raise my seeds
I too am resurrected
From the error of my ways
And the right choices I rejected
For the world calls my flesh
It is my spirit God will test
To overcome all unrighteousness
Is the purpose of this quest
My worst fear, was to disappear
From my kid's lives
Repeat a vicious cycle
I had my father's pride
But after many years
I soon came to realize
That as a man
I had to justify my own life
Learn from my mistakes
And when you fall, just keep on trying
'Cause ain't no failure
If you get back up, and keep on striving
I thank the Lord, for the
Good, the bad, and in between
It made my who I am,
And that's the man you see, in the...
(Sunshine)
If you take a look at my life
Would you see what I lived in my eyes
(Everybody needs the sunshine)
The agony from tragedies that I hide
Don't come across, cause I keep my head high
(Sunshine)
I had to fight through the pain
The obstacles and setbacks that I overcame
(Everybody needs the sunshine)
I didn't understand why it had to be that way
Now I realize, that's why I am that man today
(Sunshine)
If you take a look at my life
Would you see what I lived in my eyes
(Everybody needs the sunshine)
The agony from tragedies that I hide
Don't come across, cause I keep my head high
(Sunshine)
I had to fight through the pain
The obstacles and setbacks that I overcame
(Everybody needs the sunshine)
I didn't understand why it had to be that way
Now I realize, that's why I am that man today