Power

It's Christmas time in the Montgomery home

Daddy's actin' all crazy again

Momma got herself a bloody nose

Daddy slapped her in the face again

Why they always gotta fight so much?

Damn

Momma face woke me and my bros in a panic state

If that's the case, yo, I can't just stay around this

Everything was fine

We just had dinner

We got all the He-mans

Battle cat, Adam and Cringer

Even Castle Greyskull and Snake Mountain

Now we sit and listen to y'all

Argue 'bout how y'all plan this day

And y'all just admitted to us Santa fake

So Kid Vishis just ran away poutin'

Now I gotta go and console him

He wasn't nothin' but a spoiled little boy then

Little naive with a innocent cry

All he ever wanted to do was fit in with us

And y'all bought him a pair of fake Timberlands

And put him in a real Timberland box

I'd never forget them boots

They was called Rugged Outbacks

Momma went found him at Payless

And made us promise no to say nothin'

Then pop came in like he ain't know nothin' about it

Like "Judy, you gon' send that boy out in public like that?"

"He'll be just fine, these kids ain't 'bout to be lookin' down at his feet for no treat"

And she really meant that

Meanwhile this little arrogant ****

Called himself stuntin' on me and Greg with him

"Talkin' 'bout, where y'all Timbs at?"

But he was too young to detect sarcasm

So we was like, "****, where your Timbs at?"

It's Thanksgiving in the Montgomery home

Gran just came in here drunk again

Now momma tryna cover for him

She afraid my daddy gon' punch him again

Why you gotta get drunk so much? Damn

I wish you would just stay where you was at

Instead of comin' home all rude and disrespectin' all our father rules and shit

Man, the mood done switched me and Vishis playin' Connect Four

Our favorite movie just came on the tube and it's ironic it's Bloodsport

And I'm lookin' at Frank Dux and shit, thinkin' you should split

Before daddy come down these stairs of this basement

And see you wasted

But he just cut me off like

"That **** ain't gon' do shit"

But the truth is this

He couldn't hold my dad even if he was sober

I know 'cause he tried once

Ended up unconscious

A broke arm and a tooth is chipped

My big bro got a lotta emotional problems

He feel that we was all abused as kids

He saw momma get dragged down all kinda stairs like a rag doll

When he was two

And this is back when daddy used to sniff cocaine

Poor thing, he had to be subjected to this

When he gets drunk he gets to losin' it

He gets the illusion that he gon' protect us all from the Big Bad Wolf

Stand up to him and prove some shit

But all he really doin' is stressin' mom out, got it goin'

"Boy, you know your daddy up there asleep, the food is ready

Why don't you stop makin' all this noise and just let him stay 'sleep?"

The turkey's done in the Montgomery home

Daddy's just been awaken again

Greg is makin' all kinds of noise

Daddy is on his way angry again

Who is that makin' all that goddamn noise?

Greggy, get up here

You been out there drinking again?

What the fuck I tell you 'bout comin' in my house with this disrespectful shit?

****, where the fuck you done been?

I'm thinkin' to myself

Greg, please don't say nothin' stupid, man

Every time my daddy in his drawers and he standin' in the hallway

Mad at somebody, I swear he got the same strength as Superman

My brother turn around and just walks in the kitchen

Without even givin' a answer

With his back to him

Like, I ain't gotta talk to you, ****

****, you don't hear me talkin' to you?

Next thing my brother did is somethin' that when it comes to my father

Is somethin' you just don't do

He looked him right in his eyes and he asked him

"What the fuck is you gon' do?"

My father hit him so hard his body hit the stove

The oven door hit the fuckin' floor

The turkey fell out the oven hole and landed near the stairs

Now daddy's standin' over Greg

Talkin' 'bout

"****, you ain't hurt, get up, get up"

Then here come Vish talkin' 'bout

"Dad, I don't think he gon' get up"

Then momma went damn near hysterical

She called the police, the police came

Neighbors was all in the street

Watchin' the cops takin' my father out in handcuffs, damn

Man, that shit was real embarrassin'

To all my friends I grew up with

Who grew up fatherless

I know through me you live vicariously

I want you to know that we ain't no better than you

Yours, we all needed therapy

We care about each other more than we care about

If anybody understands us

What I'm tryna say is fuck you

And happy holidays from the Montgomery family

Every man reaches that point in life

Where he don't wanna make excuses no more, more

Life done took me on a roller coaster ride

I've been up, I've been down

All the ribbons that my daddy gave

Took me on highs

Turn around and then took me on lows (That's how the story goes)

Then I think about it

I use that shit as fuel then I changed it into power

Now can't you feel it?

Can't you feel it?

That I'm a grown man with power

Let me hear, say, yeah

If you was raised in a strict home like me

Felt alone like me

And we gave him power

You can do it too

Just look at me

See, I'm a grown man with power

Yeah

Everybody say, yeah

If you don't know the meanin' of abuse

You've been through so much and let nobody could do to you

Can't you feel it?

I'm a runaway

This is how we came

A grown man with power

You can do it too

If I can do it

Use it

Power

Just a runaway

I was a runaway

There's nothin' none of y'all can do to me, do to me