Call You-Mr. J. Medeiros

[00:39.46]seventy hours a week [00:41.24]it amazes me the power in her feet [00:43.13]with no sleep she raised me [00:44.94]a cocktail waitress with three babies [00:46.88]who will not fail in a race to try and save me [00:49.61]from humiliation pain and heartache [00:51.74]and still i don’t hesitate to learn it the hard way [00:54.69]she knows she can’t control that [00:56.32]but i love her every effort [00:57.56]it just shows where her souls at [00:59.51]and i know that she hated our poverty [01:01.50]and the clothes donated by the salvation army [01:03.83]honestly i stare at her honorably [01:06.32]she’s more then a mom to me [01:08.05]whole-heartedly i say that [01:09.93]knowing there is no pay back [01:11.23]for those who are constantly giving [01:12.96]i just pray that she knows that i care and love her [01:15.81]i see the cross she bares [01:17.30]as she walks through the struggle [01:18.57]and still she remains humble in uncertainty [01:20.97]as her life changed with two major brain surgeries [01:23.53]and an insurance agency she gotta argue with [01:26.29]to get the medicine she needs inside her arteries [01:28.70]and though it’s hard for me [01:29.94]to understand just how she does it [01:31.55]i know i’m a better man because of it [01:33.60]so many cracks that us people can fall through [01:35.53]yet the love of your mother still calls you [01:39.86] [01:58.66]father is an ex-marine [01:59.99]and for my moms i know he’d drop everything [02:02.14]reading psalms he’d stop and try to tell me things [02:04.58]he knew i wouldn’t understand [02:06.11]until i got inside the hell of things [02:08.16]and the bell would ring and i would go rounds [02:10.21]fighting on a similar road he had to go down [02:12.70]without him i’d have no sound no soul [02:15.07]and definitely no rock and roll [02:17.28]regardless of the copies i sold he still backs me [02:19.91]reaching for that level as the devil keeps attacking me [02:22.92]is this how it has to be [02:24.43]well if it happens to you then it happens to me [02:26.97]he said that’s the meaning of family [02:29.39]form a team of the people you love understand me [02:32.32]he always knew that there was more to me [02:33.84]supporting me [02:34.61]reassuring me to be proud of being portuguese [02:37.29]and though i’m sure that he [02:38.51]don’t understand just how i love him [02:39.72]the conversation we had and how i learned from them [02:42.22]contemplating with dad on how the worlds turning [02:44.44]concentrating on the good [02:45.64]when the bad is hurting someone [02:47.34]i heard from someone [02:48.31]we are the light that shines through [02:49.58]and it helps to know your family is right behind you [02:51.97]so many cracks that us people can fall through [02:53.96]yet the love of your father still calls you [02:58.41]