Intro: Ghost
   Yeah, ohh yeah, this one goes out
   to all the families that went through the struggle,
   yeah, from the heart,
   It was all from the heart, everything was real
  
   [Mary J. Blige]
   All that I got is you
   And I'm so thankful I made it through
  
   [Ghostface]
   Yo, dwelling in the past, flashbacks when I was young
   Who ever thought that I would have a baby girl and 3 sons
   I'm going through this difficult stage I find it hard
   To believe why my old earth had so many seeds
   But she's an old woman and due to me I respect that
   I saw life for what its really worth and took a step back
   Family ain't family no more, we used to play ball
   Eggs after school, eat gritz cause we was poop
   Grab the plirs for the channel, fix the hanger on the TV
   Rockin each others pants to school wasn't easy
   We survived winters snotty nosed with no coats
   We kept it real but the older brother still had jokes
   Sadly daddy left me at the age of six
   I didn't know notin' but mommy neatly packed his shit
   She cried, and grandma held the family down
   I guess mommy wasn't strong enough, she just went down
   Check it, 15 of us in a three bedroom apartment
   Roaches everywhere cousins and aunts were there.
   4 in the bed, 2 at the foot, 2 at the head
   I didn't like to sleep with jon-jon he peed the bed
   Seven o'clock, pluckin roaches out the cereal box
   We shared the same spoon, watchin saturday cartoons
   Sugar water was our thing, everymeal was no thrill
   In the summer free lunch held us down like steel
   And there was days I had to go to Tex house with a note
   Stating "Gloria can I borrow some food I'm dead broke"
   So embarrasin I couldn't stand to knock ont he door
   My friends might be laughin, I spent stamps in stores
   Mommy wheres the toilet paper, use the newspaper
   Look Ms. Rose gave us a couch, she's the neighbor
   Things was deep, my whole youth was sharper than cleats
   2 brothers with muscular dystrophy, it killed me
   But I remember this mom's would lick her finger tips
   To wipe the cold out of my eye before school wit her spit
   Case worker had her runnin back for face to face
   I caught a case, housin tried to throw us out of our place
   Sometimes I look up at the stars and analyze the sky
   And ask myself, was I meant to be here, why?
   Yeah, yo
  
   [Chorus (4x): Mary J. Blige]
   All that I got is you
   And I'm so thankful I made it through
  
   [Ghostface Killah]
   Word up mommy, I love you
   Word up
   It was all you, word, you brought me in like this
  
   [Mary J. Blige]
   I sit and think about
   All the times we did without rain
   I always said I woudn't cry
   When I saw tears in your eyes
   I understand that daddy's not here now
   But some way or somehow, I will always be around, yeah
   All things that I did from this to them
   Oh from drugs to being there
   Being down and out and I love you always
  
   [Popa Wu]
   Yeah, you say
   You see the universe, which consists of the sun moon and star
   And them planets, that exist in my space
   Like man woman and child
   You understand?
   We got to keep it real, and what reality and reality will keep it real with us
   I remember them good ol days
   Because see, that's the child I was
   What made me the man I am today
   See cause if you forget where you come from, heheh
   You're never gonna make it where you're goin, aheh
   Because you lost the reality of yourself
   So take one stroll through your mind
   And see what you will find
   And you'll see a whole universe all over again
   and again and again and again and again
   Heheheh, yeah heheheheh ahaheheheh