Album Cover When Thugs Cry

When Thugs Cry

Joe Budden

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[Chorus]

How can you just leave me standin'

Alone in a world that's so cold

Maybe I'm just too demandin'

Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold

Maybe I'm just like my mother, she's never satisfied

Why do we scream at each other

This is what it sounds like

When Thugs Cry

[Verse 1]

first off I got a seed comin'

so I won't even front like I don't need nuttin'

dependin' on record sales to see somethin'

but if that fall back

how the fuck I'm s'possed to feed lil' budden

I've been in jail before

I've been a bum before

but a nigga ain't never had a son before

I dealt with caine and fire I done banged with fighters

but I ain't never changed a diaper

I ain't ready

ever since I signed niggaz been on my back

like Mouse, "what up? when I'm gettin' on the track?"

and so the hood hates me

figured they be much kinder like Joe "congratulations, and we commin' right behind ya!"

everybody in the hood I dap says I'm responsible

for erverybody in the hood that raps

they don't like how I do shit

Say I changed

but I#m the same nigga y'all went to high school with

after all these years I'm still the same drug addict

and it's fucked up I'm sober with the same drug habits

I still pinch, thief, con and lie, rob, shoot

difference now is I ain't high

Cats is after me

at least I got a crew to warn me

I don't like walkin' around with this 32 on me

atleast my mans is real

atleast my family's there

is it worth rappin? the answer's yeah, but i don't know...

[Repeat Chorus]

[Verse 2]

I#m a survivor

I seen darker days

a mama's boy with my father's ways

but I had to see my mom in tears

when pop went to the newports that he must ain't find in years

my lil' brother lives in the same state

I ain't know that

I got a little brother

I didn't know that

see I was never told that

if so I'd of been at the door witha basketball and a kodak

love my baby moms to death

she don't believe that

shit I ain't never there for her to see that don't wanna

lose my wiz

beggin' her to do this bid

not jail but this music shit

and I know your family hate me but we come far

just us against the world unarmed

Me and My Girlfriend

come a time when your mind ain't right and you get used

to not being used to

I'm cool with where the lord placed me

but I hold my heat and pray I never have to take it off safety

I pray for all my niggaz pinchin' on the curb

Jersey City will get the recognition it deserves

I pray for my son he'll have genes like me

pray that he don't have to go through everything like me

pray to god to bring out the things I never knew I had in me

the rest of my mom and dad in me, uh huh

[Repeat Chorus]