Grown Folks - Raphael Saadiq

I’m talking to the whole world, and the uneducated fool

We always talk about the youth, now let’s talk about you

We all have responsibilities

Spending hundreds on throwbacks when there’s kids to feed

Sometimes you got to let the kids see, just who their father is

So they can see, we can’t always wear the cool shoes

‘Cause the kids wanna wear the cool shoes too

Help the grown folks

They need more help than the children do

Help the grown folks

They need more help than the children do

Help the grown folks

They need more help than the children do

Help the grown folks

They need more help than these children do

The fathers are somewhat gangster, and the son is too

The mother’s a working lady, but she can’t control the rules

The daughter lost her mother, and her father and brother too

But she really wants to go to college, do what she needs to do

She knows there’s gonna be some debt with this

But she got caught up in a bad relationship

But her father was nowhere around to hold her hand

So she chose a pimp…

Help the grown folks

They need more help than the children do

Help the grown folks

They need more help than the children do

Help the grown folks

They need more help than the children do

Help the grown folks

They need more help than these children do

You got your religion, and I got mine

Or maybe you don’t and you’re feeling just fine

We all call him different names, but we have all the same sins

You know what I’m talking about, but you needed your best friend

They need more help than the children do

Help the grown folks

They need more help than the children do

Help the grown folks

They need more help than the children do

Help the grown folks

They need more help than these children do

Help the grown folks (Help them Father God)

They need more help than the children do

(Father God, help these grown people)

Help the grown folks

(Sometimes these grown people act worse than their children)

They need more help than the children do

(They need more help than the children do, that’s true)

Help the grown folks (Walk your kids to school)

They need more help than the children do

(Show your kids that you can be a man)

Help the grown folks (So they know how to be children)

They need more help than the children do

(Let the kids be children while they’re children)

Don’t make your kid be a man or your daughter be a lady when she’s only

10-years-old

Comb your daughter’s hair, comb your son’s hair

Take your son to a baseball game, take your daughter to a basketball game

Forget about that big corporate meeting some time

Forget about that big vacation

If you’re going on a vacation, take your kids with you

Don’t leave them with that nanny

You never know what that nanny is doing to your kid

Forget about that big Beverly Hills mansion

Get into your kids

Don’t let ‘em shoot that gun, don’t let ‘em take that gun to school…