[ti:The Good Son] [ar:J. Cole] [al:The Album Before The Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Good Son - J. Cole [00:02.00]Yeah [00:02.32] [00:02.93]Yeah [00:03.24] [00:07.50]Same life yeah [00:08.75] [00:10.51]Same life [00:11.24] [00:11.99]Yeah [00:12.17] [00:12.82]Allow me to set the scene first [00:14.97]This little n-gga no older than 17 in a [00:17.72]Martin Luther king shirt [00:19.37]Walking down the mean merc where the fiends lurk [00:22.15]And the same dirt'll find a n-gga [00:24.21]Even if you tryna get that clean work [00:26.42]He caught eyes with a bad b***h in a jean skirt [00:29.70]She gave him a mean smurk he smiled back [00:32.20]He remember this man that hit that s**t a while back [00:35.18]He met her f-cked her never dialled back [00:37.68]How n-ggas do he kept it moving couldn't wait to get home [00:41.05]Report card for his mother couldn't wait to get shown [00:44.27]Straight A's as usual his momma would smile [00:47.34]Youngest child college bound [00:48.88]Knew his momma was proud [00:50.32]'Cause he was headed out the hood [00:51.94]He promised himself one day he'd get her out for good [00:55.23]That made him smile [00:56.36]The favourite child but d**n fate is foul [00:58.97]Drive by stray bullets that laid him out [01:02.09]On the pavement fading out [01:03.55]Now he bleeding thinking God man you couldn't wait a while [01:06.87]My momma struggling who gon save her now huh [01:09.31]Now he fading out thinking God you couldn't wait a while [01:12.96]My momma need me who gon save her now n-gga uh [01:16.31] [01:19.10]Yeah he's fading out her favourie child [01:22.45] [01:23.34]He's fading out her favourie child [01:25.56] [01:26.62]He's fading out her favourie child [01:28.87] [01:29.69]He's fading out