Yo Mister

Yo, mister, how's your daughter?

You really ought to know

For everything you taught her

Don't matter when she's all alone

My crazy friend named Cara

After all of us told her no

She did another speedball

Now she's going nowhere slow

Her papa caught her for the first time

And put her out on the street

Cara told me to remind him

That she was only seventeen

Yo, mister, how's your daughter? (How's your girl?)

You really ought to know

Everything you taught her

It don't matter when she's all alone

Cara got hooked up with the wrong kids

Then she started skipping school

Then Cara got high to make disappear

A world full of fools

In her eyes her father was the biggest fool of them all

When she was speeding, that's what she'd say

Maybe, maybe, maybe she wouldn't talk so stupid

If she knew how much she needed this fool today

Yo, mister, how's your daughter?

You really ought to know

For everything you taught her

Don't matter when she's all alone

She needs you right now, mister

'Cause she ain't got long to live

It's so easy to say "I love him"

But it's harder to forgive

Her father cried when I told him that Cara twice got knocked up

He said, "Just like her mama, huh?

She shows her body when she wants to show love

She tried that stuff with me and I beat her down?

There's no way I could let her stay

Couldn't let her stick around

'Cause I tried so hard to raise her right," he said

"What made her turn out this way?"

"I don't know"

"What made her turn out this way

I don't know, I don't know"

And I said, and I said, and I said

"Yo, mister, how's your daughter?

You really ought to know

Everything you taught her

Don't matter when she's all alone

She needs you right now, mister

She ain't got long to live

It's so easy to say 'I love him'

But it's harder to forgive"

How's your daughter tonight?

How's your daughter tonight?

How's your daughter tonight?

How's your daughter tonight?

How's your daughter tonight?