5th Child - Motherless Child Lyrics

Feeling like a motherless child, pain cuts into my soul
Its beating me down, can’t find my smile
On the face of a motherless child
Feeling like a motherless child, pain cuts into my soul
Its beating me down, can’t find my smile
Yea yea yea

When anxiety overcomes, I’m fighting over it drums
Mama crying tears of joy at the sight of what I’ve become
Blacks gunning over fights, whites fighting over guns
But I’d rather be righteous than right when it’s said and done
You’re cheating the reaper when you’re surviving through the slums
Where they’re taking all the cake and sliding icing on the crumbs
They’re handing you a plate and you start stuffing your face
Wondering why dem belly full but to the hunger you succumb
I guess that’s why I’m getting numb and I ain’t feeling their opinions
When you recognize the real, it starts revealing the chameleons
Used to pray over meals and now we’re praying over millions
Because the appetite for that rapper life is so appealing
The kingdom’s full of soldiers, No such thing as civilians
So let us in the door or else we’re bringing down the building
Its moments like this when I get a feeling
Even if I’m not a star, I’m a star that shines brilliant

Feeling like a motherless child, pain cuts into my soul
Its beating me down, can’t find my smile
On the face of a motherless child
Feeling like a motherless child, pain cuts into my soul
Its beating me down, can’t find my smile
Yea yea yea

How you deal with the pressure? How you deal with depression
How you deal with the press when they’re pressing and asking questions
How you deal with the stress from the object of your affection
Confessing they wasn’t faithful, blame you for their indiscretion
And tell you you’re a failure, and ain’t nobody checking
Fuck you and your heart, they throwing darts in your direction
Lesson learned though
Now I’m all by myself, wondering where is love
Or should I just give up you know
Hell nah. Can’t quit. That ain’t how you change this
Even when it’s going tough, voices screaming Don’t give up
So I go harder, more focused and more smarter
I flow sharper from The Birth to post-partum
Pardon me if my party is probably part of the problem
But I refuse to lose, I’m gonna pop bottles regardless
I’m an artist so I gotta be myself, there’s nobody else for me

Feeling like a motherless child, pain cuts into my soul
Its beating me down, can’t find my smile
On the face of a motherless child
Feeling like a motherless child, pain cuts into my soul
Its beating me down, can’t find my smile
Yea yea yea

It’s like jungle, sometimes it makes me wonder
How I kept from going out of my mind when I was younger
I knew rejection all too well and couldn’t tell if it was a phase
Yet and still, the demons die when you praise
But I was fresh then, fresh prince, parents didn’t understand
That all of their suggestions never was my preference
And I’ll admit it, I was running wild
Sometimes it takes a different kind of love to raise a child
So don’t give up
And that’s right they never gave up, that’s why we never gave up
I’m screaming Fuck the world. Now go and show them what you’re made of
Creator’s in your corner don’t you ever be afraid of
The enemies you used to run away from
Shoot for your dreams and anybody standing in-between
Is getting blasted with strays until you go out in blaze
There’s one life to live and to die there’s a million ways
And it’s all in his name I pray, Now let the church say

Feeling like a motherless child, pain cuts into my soul
Its beating me down, can’t find my smile
On the face of a motherless child
Feeling like a motherless child, pain cuts into my soul
Its beating me down, can’t find my smile
Yea yea yea
Feeling like a motherless child, pain cuts into my soul
Its beating me down, can’t find my smile
On the face of a motherless child
Feeling like a motherless child, pain cuts into my soul
Its beating me down, can’t find my smile
Yea yea yea