I know, I know, I know, I know pain I know, I know, I know, I know pain I know, I know, I know, I know pain Let it be known Gipp love to bury muffins with no stuffin' Problem child to this industry like David Ruffin' 155 pounds going straight in your kisser And take a position, then split a partition, I started rollin' with a mo' home Pick up a penny hope it turn into a twenty but the day end home A classic in the street like Reebok Grew up on the human beat box, I kick the door up off the hinge I roll the windows to the ceiling Been on a mission, dealing with my feelings like Max Payne Analytically driven, emotionally living in pain If I had to do it, oversee, I do it again I know I know, I know, I know, I know pain I know, I know, I know, I know pain I know, I know, I know, I know pain Yeah, I do this for the kids, I do this for the mommas I do this for the children that ain't ever had a father Too many to remember mentally but yo I try Sometimes I'm blinded by the cataracts up in my eye Like Little Bo Peep, she standing in the street And even ain't got no shoes for them mutilated feet Good golly Miss Molly, addicted to Bacardi Don't even know the difference between love and a party And old men con young women, that's wrong Don't they know the 30s and the 40s been gone Inconspicuously, I slide to the side on [Incomprehensible] I hypnotize through the voice tone Already been, confronted myself to transcend Tales from an adolescent years to young teens When everything I used to own, used to sit on the dresser I rode the bus to [Incomprehensible] the train I know the rain, I know the pain Construction jobs kept callouses on my hand I know the pain Crystallize me to a man I know the pain Believe in something higher then man I know the pain When it didn't work I fell on my knees and called his name (I know, I know, I know, I know pain) I know, I know, I know, I know pain I know, I know, I know, I know pain I know, I know, I know, I know pain ...