Mama Told Me Lyrics - Ricanstruction: The Black Rosary - Chino Xl

[Refrain: Chino XL & Akili Nickson] 

She said she should've done this 

She should've done that 

Pack my bags and never look back 

Some things that I've seen I can't un-see 

I've spent my whole life just trying to get free 

And I'm never gonna be...without my pain and misery 

But I remember what my mama told me (Mama told me) 

Mama told me (Mama told me) 

I remember what my mama told me 

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[Verse 1: Chino XL] 

I scramble to my feet to regain consciousness 

The floor half full of blood, I'm a pessimist 

It makes sense for me to make my exodus 

This scene flashing through child monic movie images 

I was nine years old with spine hemorrhages 

Just me and him was in the house, no witnesses 

All I'm thinking is, how I'm a live through this 

He unclenched his fist, my face grimaces 

I don't reminisce, I remember the stress 

Feeling nervousness when he came home up the steps 

Mom he beatin' me bad first escaped my lips 

She said that I was a fuck up and I deserved this shit 

What could I have possibly done I was only nine 

With fucking stitches in my eye she told me stop crying 

I'm looking for a sign, the sun don't ever shine 

I'm an only child; they say that love is blind 

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[Refrain: Chino XL & Akili Nickson] 

She said she should've done this 

She should've done that 

Pack my bags and never look back 

Some things that I've seen I can't un-see 

I've spent my whole life just trying to get free 

And I'm never gonna be...without my pain and misery 

But I remember what my mama told me (Mama told me) 

Mama told me (Mama told me) 

I remember what my mama told me 

[Verse 2: Chino XL] 

Now in retrospect as a father looking back 

Having my own flesh of my flesh 

There's no excuse for that 

I also have heard that what don't kill us make us stronger 

But the abuse that I took, took away my hunger 

Living inside my imagination I learned hate 

Planning my escape, losing my personal faith 

She blamed it on the drugs; she blamed it on the times 

She blamed on her moms, but I'm the one with scars 

Staring at that chipped paint wall in my room 

I'm 13 years old now I gotta do something soon 

It was the 6th of June inside my mouth was a bloody wound 

My step father vowed to put in me in a tomb 

Momma told me my real daddy didn't want me 

I figured this new man must be special if she let him hurt me 

Now I ain't have a mother, and he ain't have no mercy 

Why did god curse me? Maybe I'm meant to suffer 

[Refrain: Chino XL & Akili Nickson] 

She said she should've done this 

She should've done that 

Pack my bags and never look back 

Some things that I've seen I can't un-see 

I've spent my whole life just trying to get free 

And I'm never gonna be...without my pain and misery 

But I remember what my mama told me (Mama told me) 

Mama told me (Mama told me) 

I remember what my mama told me 

[Verse 3: Chino XL] 

I finally decided that I wouldn't take it no more 

I had a steak knife that I've been hiding in my right drawer 

He had punch my right jaw just the night before 

I stood silently outside his bedroom door 

But every breath I took I felt like there was angels with me 

Soon his death would be a mystery even to me 

I saw a shadow move, he finally coming through 

I swung a knife at dude, if I had only knew 

The life slipping out a body was my mom dukes 

I had no idea that she was in the room too 

Wiping tears from my eyes this can't be true 

My step father drunk in the bed still off cheap brew 

I knelled down to momma to hear a last truth 

She said son I never loved him more than you 

I still hate myself, I tried to hang myself 

The leather belt broke, that was 20 years ago 

[Chino XL & Akili Nickson] 

Refrain x2 

She said she should've done this 

She should've done that 

Pack my bags and never look back 

Some things that I've seen I can't un-see 

I've spent my whole life just trying to get free 

And I'm never gonna be...without my pain and misery 

But I remember what my mama told me (Mama told me) 

Mama told me (Mama told me) 

I remember what my mama told me