Raise it up

Raise it up

No father figure in the house
and I'm wondering how I'm gonna work it out

oh my friends keep on telling' me how I don't need that man

but they don't really understand

there's far too many pressures in reality

but dealing with the pain and stress and poverty
and I gonna be myself because there's nobody else for me (ohhhh)

(heading there with me)

sometimes it takes a different kind of love to raise a child
(so don't give up)so don't give up
(when pressures come down)

sometimes it takes a different kind of dream to make you smile
(so raise it up)so raise
(hang in there with me)

sometimes we need another helping hand to show the ways
(so don't give up) so don't give up
(when pressures come down)

sometimes it seems impossible and that's why we pray
(so raise it up) we raise

[HOPE] seems to be nothing left for me

momma’s gone, daddy didn’t wanna be

and now I’m all by myself

wondering where is love or should I just give up

life falls down on me, cuts into my soul

but I know I got the strength to make it through it all

cause I’m still standing tall
breaking through this wall I’m gonna give my all

[HOPE] feeling like a motherless child hankered into my soul

it’s bringing me down, can’t find my smile on a face of a motherless child
I’m gonna break down these walls, gonna give it my all, ya know