Gotta Be Good Lyrics

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

Can't fold for my family

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

Hold fast to the man in me

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

For my future generations

To my son that didn't make it

This for you, I gotta face it

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

Gotta be strong

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

This what I'm on

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

No I can't back down

On my face you'll see a smile

But inside my soul, a frown but I gotta be good

When a woman looks at me a leader is what she must see

All that bleakness feeling weak yeah from that we must flee

We cannot be emotional, our tank must be empty

And if you missing my meaning, check my song GMB

But no manly mentality prepared me for this type of pain

Apparently my days of parenting still some time away

This bar is hard but to further the story I'ma say

I never got to meet my sun, Dion Na'ade

I speak life, so me I'm not the type to worry

But like daylight savings, baby sun came bright and early

Inside that womb I felt his power, sun too strong

But when I saw him NICU told me your sun too gone

Looked at the doctor thinking nah son you wrong

Now my eyes hurt, been staring at my sun too long

My mind clouded, face is raining as I start to tear

January 1st, 21, what a way to start the year

I'm trying to keep it pushing, but the pain ain't done yet

Tell me why the same day that my sun rise, my sun set

But I know I need to move in his memory, I can't fail him

My brother asked was I gone be straight so I stand up and tell em that I

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

Can't fold for my family

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

Hold fast to the man in me

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

For my future generations

To my son that didn't make it

This for you, I gotta face it

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

Gotta be strong

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

This what I'm on

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

No I can't back down

On my face you'll see a smile

But inside my soul, a frown but I gotta be good

A month later, still coping with the loss of my child

I'm staying focused and notice, it ain't that hard to smile

It took a while, but I'm kinda feeling fine

But I knew it was a sign when my sister hit my line like

Great grandma sick and it's bad

Yeah she was scared, I see it

They couldn't wake her from her nap

Guess she was barely breathing

Internal bleeding, pressure high, what they gonna do

They was gonna bring her home but lo behold she got that Rona too

She said she'd update me as the situation progresses

I go about my day and try my best not to be stressing

Later that night, my mama beep beeped my phone

Her body released her soul, 3 words

BB is gone, no

Mama she called me and I could tell that she lost her nerve

Cuz what she tried to say got lost in the mangled and garbled words

And I feel the hurt, well more than hurt, tell me what the word

When mother beloveds tears and spirit merge and mud the dirt

I used to sit with grandma Bebe in her arm chair

Now I use my arms here to lift her up and pallbear

If I could just ball up and cry on the pew, I would

But I had to be strong for my sis and my mom in the midst of it all

Got a grip in my palms 'cause I

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

Can't fold for my family

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

Hold fast to the man in me

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

For my future generations

To my son that didn't make it

This for you, I gotta face it

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

Gotta be strong

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

This what I'm on

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

No I can't back down

On my face you'll see a smile

But inside my soul, a frown but I gotta be good

Yeah man

I was gone do a third verse

But it's like

I would need a fourth, fifth and sixth verse

To actually talk about what's happened this year

Obviously, you know, I lost my son

My great grandma

Turn around a couple months later and lost my daughter

You know

Job complications, man it's been so much

Relationships in and out

End of the day man

Just gotta stand up and say it's just one of things

Gotta be good

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

Can't fold for my family

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

Hold fast to the man in me

Gotta be good, Gotta be good

For my future generations

To my son that didn't make it

This for you, I gotta face it

Gotta be good