Grown Folks Raphael Saadiq

[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 2]
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…