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What Would You Do Lyrics
Boys and girls wanna hear a true story?
Saturday night was at this real wild party
There was liquor overflowing the cup
About five or six strippers trying to work for a buck
So I took one girl outside with me
Her name was Londi
She went to junior high with me
I said “Why you up in there dancing for cash?
I guess a whole lot’s changed since I seen you last.”
She said “What would you do if your son was at home
Crying all alone on the bedroom floor ‘cause he’s hungry
And the only way to feed him is to
sleep with a man for a little bit of money
And his daddy’s gone
in and out of lockdown
I ain’t got a job now
He’s just smoking rock now
So for you this is just a good time
But for me this is what I call life.”
“Girl you ain’t the only one to have a baby
That’s no excuse to be living all crazy.”
So she stared me right square in the eye and said
“Every day I wake up hoping to die.”
She said “They’re going to know about pain
‘Cause me and my sister ran away
So our daddy couldn’t rape us
Before I was a teenager
I done been through more shit you can’t even relate to.”
“What would you do if your son was at home
Crying all alone on the bedroom floor ‘cause he’s hungry
And the only way to feed him is to
sleep with a man for a little bit of money
And his daddy’s gone
in and out of lockdown
I ain’t got a job now
He’s just smoking rock now
So for you this is just a good time
But for me this is what I call life.”
“What would you do?”
“Get up off my feet and stop making tired excuses.”
“What would you do?”
“Get up off my feet and stop making tired excuses.”
“What would you do?”
“Get up off my feet and stop making tired excuses.”
“What would you do?”
“Get up off my feet…”
“What would you do if your son was at home
Crying all alone on the bedroom floor ‘cause he’s hungry
And the only way to feed him is to
sleep with a man for a little bit of money
And his daddy’s gone
in and out of lockdown
I ain’t got a job now
He’s just smoking rock now
So for you this is just a good time
But for me this is what I call life.”
“What would you do if your son was at home
Crying all alone on the bedroom floor ‘cause he’s hungry
And the only way to feed him is to
sleep with a man for a little bit of money
And his daddy’s gone
in and out of lockdown
I ain’t got a job now
He’s just smoking rock now
So for you this is just a good time
But for me this is what I call life.”
“What would you do if your son was at home
Crying all alone on the bedroom floor ‘cause he’s hungry?”
Saturday night was at this real wild party
There was liquor overflowing the cup
About five or six strippers trying to work for a buck
So I took one girl outside with me
Her name was Londi
She went to junior high with me
I said “Why you up in there dancing for cash?
I guess a whole lot’s changed since I seen you last.”
Crying all alone on the bedroom floor ‘cause he’s hungry
And the only way to feed him is to
sleep with a man for a little bit of money
And his daddy’s gone
in and out of lockdown
I ain’t got a job now
He’s just smoking rock now
So for you this is just a good time
But for me this is what I call life.”
That’s no excuse to be living all crazy.”
So she stared me right square in the eye and said
“Every day I wake up hoping to die.”
She said “They’re going to know about pain
‘Cause me and my sister ran away
So our daddy couldn’t rape us
Before I was a teenager
I done been through more shit you can’t even relate to.”
Crying all alone on the bedroom floor ‘cause he’s hungry
And the only way to feed him is to
sleep with a man for a little bit of money
And his daddy’s gone
in and out of lockdown
I ain’t got a job now
He’s just smoking rock now
So for you this is just a good time
But for me this is what I call life.”
“Get up off my feet and stop making tired excuses.”
“What would you do?”
“Get up off my feet and stop making tired excuses.”
“What would you do?”
“Get up off my feet and stop making tired excuses.”
“What would you do?”
“Get up off my feet…”
Crying all alone on the bedroom floor ‘cause he’s hungry
And the only way to feed him is to
sleep with a man for a little bit of money
And his daddy’s gone
in and out of lockdown
I ain’t got a job now
He’s just smoking rock now
So for you this is just a good time
But for me this is what I call life.”
Crying all alone on the bedroom floor ‘cause he’s hungry
And the only way to feed him is to
sleep with a man for a little bit of money
And his daddy’s gone
in and out of lockdown
I ain’t got a job now
He’s just smoking rock now
So for you this is just a good time
But for me this is what I call life.”
Crying all alone on the bedroom floor ‘cause he’s hungry?”
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Officially the best song ever (no offence directioners) such a brilliant cover to make a rap song from the early noughties into a dark pop song that would fit in nicely to any era of music ABSOLUTE CLASSIC!!!
@Bendubz I agree. This came up on my Pandora, and I was like "Holy shit, this is that one song from the nineties!" It's one of the most inventive covers. :)
@Bendubz I agree. This came up on my Pandora, and I was like "Holy shit, this is that one song from the nineties!" It's one of the most inventive covers. :)
I hate this song, judgemental santimonious COVER. The original song had better lyrics taking into consideration this single parent predicament. This says excues excuses about her poor predicament whilst she explains. I had to turn it off. Oh what she could do is work 7 jobs leave the child at home alone, as cannot afford childcare and that would be so much better (sarcasism). Unless you've been there bastille don't sing about it, I've never been here and l feel like an entitled person like yourself with a family who could support me when I was sick, who knows what would have happened if I hadn't come from a family with wealth, where you haven't been don't judge, unless your showing love and expanding our "compassionate wings". This society needs more empathy and compassion not less.