Grown Folks-Raphael Saadiq

[ti:Grown Folks] [ar:Raphael Saadiq] [al:Ray Ray] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.60]Grown Folks - Raphael Saadiq [00:30.31]I'm talking to the whole world and the uneducated fool [00:34.15]We always talk about the youth now let's talk about you [00:38.01]We all have responsibilities [00:41.88]Spending hundreds on throwbacks when there's kids to feed [00:45.63]Sometimes you got to let the kids [00:47.80]See just who their father is [00:50.82]So they can see we can't always wear the cool shoes [00:56.55]'Cause the kids wanna wear the cool shoes too [00:58.86]Help the grown folks [01:01.95]They need more help than the children do [01:05.15]Help the grown folks [01:09.27]They need more help than the children do [01:12.85]Help the grown folks [01:16.49]They need more help than the children do [01:20.20]Help the grown folks [01:23.95]They need more help than these children do [01:28.53]The fathers are somewhat gangster and the son is too [01:32.59]The mother's a working lady but she can't control the rules [01:36.68]The daughter lost her mother [01:38.53]And her father and brother too [01:40.50]But she really wants to go to [01:42.02]College do what she needs to do [01:44.03]She knows there's gonna be some debt with this [01:47.31]But she got caught up in a bad relationship [01:51.34]But her father was nowhere around to hold her hand [01:54.93]So she chose a pimp [01:56.59]Help the grown folks [02:00.58]They need more help than the children do [02:03.84]Help the grown folks [02:07.78]They need more help than the children do [02:11.42]Help the grown folks [02:15.09]They need more help than the children do [02:18.37]Help the grown folks [02:22.45]They need more help than these children do [02:27.07]You got your religion and I got mine [02:30.86]Or maybe you don't and you're feeling just fine [02:34.10]We all call him different names [02:36.52]But we have all the same sins [02:38.61]You know what I'm talking about [02:40.26]But you needed your best friend [02:44.47]They need more help than the children do [02:47.57]Help the grown folks [02:51.75]They need more help than the children do [02:55.35]Help the grown folks [02:59.05]They need more help than the children do [03:02.31]Help the grown folks [03:06.31]They need more help than these children do [03:10.04]Help the grown folks help them father God [03:13.74]They need more help than the children do [03:15.94]Father God help these grown people [03:17.27]Help the grown folks [03:19.12]Sometimes these grown people act worse than their children [03:21.47]They need more help than the children do [03:23.28]They need more help than the children do that's true [03:25.08]Help the grown folks walk your kids to school [03:28.40]They need more help than the children do [03:30.26]Show your kids that you can be a man [03:31.86]Help the grown folks so they know how to be children [03:35.63]They need more help [03:36.55]Let the kids be children while they're children [03:40.69]Don't make your kid be a man or your daughter [03:42.65]Be a lady when she's only 10-years-old old old [03:47.59]Comb your daughter's hair comb your son's hair [03:51.17]Take your son to a baseball game take [03:53.56]Your daughter to a basketball game [03:57.24]Forget about that big corporate meeting some time [03:59.84]Forget about that big vacation [04:02.18]If you're going on a vacation take your kids with you [04:05.46]With you [04:06.10]Don't leave them with that nanny [04:07.68]You never know what that nanny is doing to your kid [04:10.91]Forget about that big Beverly Hills mansion [04:14.12]Get into your kids [04:15.83]Don't let 'em shoot that gun don't let [04:18.66]'Em take that gun to school [04:20.22]Remember my that all forget