7 Years

Once I was seven years old
 My father told me, I'll never leave again
 You won't be lonely
 Once I was seven years old
 I was a kid, I was seven
 Never knew you or knew where you would be
 What was the pen, too innocent?
 Nothing you said was making any sense
 I was like damn, who is this man?
 Standing before me saying take a chance
 Suddenly everything I thought I knew about the world
 Was taken when I shis hand
 I was so mad, didn't know why
 Why was my name all tatted on your side?
 Why did you mess with the bliss over me and my sister
 We're cool without you, doin' fine
 We came around, you came around
 Told us you would never ever leave
 Heart on my sleeve, letting it bleed
 Waiting for you again, cause I believe
 Once I was eleven years old
 My momma told me, I won't do this again
 Need you to go please
 Once I was eleven years old
 I wasn't there, I didn't care
 Moving around a lot and couldn't bare
 Everyone wanted to fix it and took me away
 From my sister to live on a prayer
 Breaking the law, getting expelled
 Didn't believe in nothing, you could tell
 Wanted to fail, gunnin' for jail
 Wanted to kill my father in a cell
 I was a mess, that I confess
 Too young to bottle this up in my chest
 Too young to do what I was doing
 Who knew that I would've been a little bit depressed
 Got into blow, got into dope
 Made an investment with nothing to show
 It was the only thing I had control over
 And it was all over whenever it go
 Once I was twenty years old
 My father wrote me
 Son, I'm sorry that you never got to know me
 Once I was twenty years old
 I didn't know then, and I don't know know
 Why it was hard for me to write it down
 Why it was easier to say out loud
 And whenever I try to write I feel a cloud
 Sooner or later I gave it up
 One way or another, can't say enough
 When I met my brother and told him
 I wanted to hear from you, that was a major bluff
 I was right in the middle of using, abusing and losing myself
 I knew not of sobriety
 I wasn't ready to meet him
 I didn't feel like I could be a role model entirely
 But inside of me I was like, damn I relate
 And I thought I could be of some help
 And it didn't dawn on me
 I couldn't be somebody's light if I don't love myself
 But soon I'll be sixty years old
 And will I still hold on
 To everything that happened and be so cold?
 Soon I'll be sixty years old
 Soon I'll be sixty years old