Verse 1:
I'm a product of Philly streets
So my thoughts run really deep
I was raised by a dope fiend
And a grandmother that would smoke weed
She would say, ‘don't be like them kids on the corner
Get a better life'
She would pray I ain't make no ba*tards of kids
Maybe get a wife
I was young mama's only son
Feeling like I was soon to die
Getting sick and tired of the guys
And the teachers teasing me at junior high
Cuttin' school
I feel like my time's better spent at the arcade
I'm a fool
Guess that's how most drug dealing youth are made
Yet and still
I don't blame my absent dad for what I'm going through
Though it's true
It was hard, father I forgive you
For you know not what you do
In a sense it's because of you I'm the way I am
I make music the way I can
And I shed some truth when I make a jam
And all the times that we never had
Makes me want to be a better dad
So the thought of leaving never that
Me and Sha's[?] ties why sever that?
So there ain't no anger, if you see me there ain't no danger
If you greet me I ain't gon' hang ya
If I'm speaking it's hello stranger so
Chorus (Sheda B):
Hello stranger
Hello stranger
Hello stranger
Hello stranger
Feels so good to see you back again, oh oh oh
Feels so good to see you back again
Verse 2:
'98 I returned from the motherland looking for my mom
I'll be straight when I saw her face
It seemed like it was a waste of time
Not because I ain't want to see her
I ain't want to see her like she was
All the weight she lost even how she talked
You could tell the sister was on d**
That was when I made up my mind
That my mom should be dragged
Up out of that crack house to a better way
We could start with rehab
She's mad trying to point a finger at Onstar
‘Cause I chased her out the bar
But she'll thank me later for being hard, God
This a roller coaster going up and down with my emotions
As I dream I see overdoses, I gotta focus
If I'm the Moses of my peeps if
We in Egypt I must lead them into their freedom
I must teach them although the evening
May be long it is but a season
That's the reason I cross the seas and
Brought this reason upon the region
And I'm speaking to hill of grieving
Even if stones I'ma see them
I believe when I ain't breathing
All my loved ones I'm gonna see them
I'ma greet them on that day and it'll be deep
Because I'ma say, aye
Chorus (Sheda B):
Hello stranger
Hello stranger
Hello stranger
Hello stranger
Feels so good to see you back again, oh oh oh
Feels so good to see you back again