Let It Go (Young Girl) - Emilio Rojas, Lecrae

Yeah yeah

I’m trying to get through to you, you don’t listen

Just hear me out

You’re too young to look that tired, too sweet to be that sad

Any moment it all could end, so please treat the day like your last chance

I know that’s family that you’re caring for, I know you’re feeling so obligated

I ain’t saying don’t help at home but your sister’s son, you ain’t gotta raise

him

You sacrificed your life, when she wouldn’t even sacrifice her night

You babysitted, playing with him, when she wasn’t acting right

Don’t you got your own dreams, own goals, it ain’t right that you gotta put

them on hold

You went to school but now you don’t go because you’re scared she’s gonna leave

him home alone

You walking in the crib and she passed out again

Your nephew crying on the floor, his ass is out again

Because she done smoked up all the diaper money

And so you laugh to keep from crying trying act as life is fucking funny

And I know when you showing them love that you’re just trying to help

But your life will be passing you by if you don’t get it done for yourself

And the way that you’re doing it now I’m afraid that it’s affecting your health,

because you’re living for somebody else.

Young girl, young girl

So much on your plate

And you just one girl, one girl

Life ain’t gonna wait for them to let you go

So I think you gotta let it go

They don’t want you to leave, they want you to stay

But you should be pulling away if nobody is pulling they’re weight

And it’s okay, you wanna live a little in your own way

Maybe you would get your bills payed if you didn’t have to pay for her mistakes

Yeah, and you?, you worry about them, you’re terrified

And you’re scared to move like you’re paralyzed, and the guilt will eat you

like a parasite

She living all reckless, going on benders acting offensive, right

And you’ve given up friendships, given up men, you’ve given up every night

And you’ve given up paychecks, and you pay the rent just save them

She complicating your life because she wanna act so damn basic

And you take it because you want approval

Don’t you know that they wanna use you, don’t you know that it’ll ruin you

And you gotta leave, it ain’t wrong to do you

And I know when you showing them love that you’re just trying to help

But your life will be passing you by if you don’t get it done for yourself

And the way that you’re doing it now I’m afraid that it’s affecting your health,

because you’re living for somebody else.

Young girl, young girl

So much on your plate

And you just one girl, one girl

Life ain’t gonna wait for them to let you go

So I think you gotta let it go

It ain’t about what you will do or you won’t do

But are you willing to do, anything that he want to

Because he don’t want you, he want you to just run through, many men,

plenty sin, pretty slim chance he’ll hold you

He tells you that you’re beautiful, he tells you that you’re fine

He tells you to go hit the strip and go flip a trick for them dimes

Little mama must be sick, because she’s cold than a mother

Looking like her daddy pitching because she throwed than a mother

And you ask her why she do it, say she do it for the money

Plus a couple shots of this and she’ll go do it for a hunned

She’s a young girl, young girl, no class, dumb girl

But that don’t mean you can’t change, and that don’t mean you’re done girl

And I told her «Little mama don’t lower yourself to be a esteemed.»

You were made in God’s image, I can see that in your genes

And they all up in your jeans, but that don’t mean you’re nothing lesser

I’ll leave that money on a dresser, get dressed and keep your respect

Because you’s a

Young girl, young girl

So much on your plate

And you just one girl, one girl

Life ain’t gonna wait for them to let you go

So I think you gotta let it go