If It Wasn't Lyrics - Mahogany Soul - Angie Stone

[Chorus] 

If it wasn't for yo' momma 

Never thinkin' I was good enough 

If it wasn't for yo' brother 

Always checkin' every move I gave up 

If it wasn't for that bitch 

Down the block always in yo' ear 

Be no room for messin' up 

But baby love, you'd be right here 

Tell me why must I, since they bought us things 

Suffer indefinitely for loving you 

Sugar why must I prove to anybody but you 

Feel I been chosen to loose 

I paid my dues, oh 

[Chorus] 

I'd been lying too, if I said to you 

That they're pressuring me away from you 

It's that she's run this 

Got us fighting over dumbness 

Got my heart on some numbness 

That's your momma and I can't take it (no more) 

I gets no joy but when I hurt 

So when it hurts, it really hurts 

[Chorus] 

Gotta learn to keep your family out the game 

When you're trying to do your thing 

They got more that's due 

Just cause momma fed you right all your life 

Don't mean she walk on a perfect line 

Watch your step, or pay the price, sacrifice 

Mothers sisters fathers brothers 

Cousin's aunts and uncles too 

You know them be the main cause 

Just because we know them 

Doesn't mean that they ain't workin' you 

Always it's something something something goin' on