[00:00.00] 作词 : Roger Ramos[00:01.00] 作曲 : Roger Ramos[00:10.25]Momma calls it tough love[00:11.97]I call it not enough[00:13.44]Told me, "Toughen up"[00:14.69]But I've been beaten, I've been shoved[00:16.18]I just need a crutch[00:17.38]Say, "He just like that, bubby, he ain't that in touch[00:20.07]With all that lovey-dove stuff"[00:21.85]But I just want a hug[00:23.00]Or just a conversation once[00:24.43]Is that too much[00:25.82]For me to ask a father of?[00:27.23]I know I got you, momma, but I ask God above[00:30.36]Why He put another dad in my life if I can only go to mom[00:33.58]'Cause he don't like to talk, he don't like to play[00:35.67]If I ask if we could throw the ball, "No, not today"[00:38.44]Every day[00:39.24]And I still go to ask in hopes the answer might change[00:41.96]But every single time it hasn't, I can't help but overthink[00:44.81]Maybe dad isn't too fond of me[00:46.32]Compared the bond to mom and me[00:47.73]And I see someone by my side and someone who don't wanna be[00:50.48]But maybe he's just tired, or maybe he's just tired of me[00:53.32]I seen him with my brother, wish he spared some time for me[00:56.04]So I just started praying to the father up above me[00:58.89]Maybe we could talk, laugh it up up in the front seat[01:01.74]Know this might be much, maybe one day he could hug me[01:04.58]Maybe I could hear him once tell me that he loves me[01:08.82]Tell me that he loves me[01:11.66]Tell me that he loves me[01:14.43]Tell me that he loves me[01:16.13]Just once[01:17.20]Tell me that he loves me[01:20.05]Tell me that he loves me[01:22.84]Tell me that he loves me[01:25.66]Tell me that he loves me[01:28.69]Just once[01:40.24]But momma say she been through it, too[01:41.91]Her daddy was a cold-hearted man sippin' the booze[01:44.63]He ain't the type to fit a suit, from his head to his shoes[01:47.56]The man was leathered up and never thought twice to leather his wife, mother of two[01:51.63]All he did was work and drink, nothing sat in between[01:54.29]With every sip, his heart shrunk, and momma's would sink[01:57.12]She had to fend for herself, eventually had me[01:59.99]And with all that going on, she grew up in a blink[02:02.73]Her daddy's old now, she taking care of him[02:05.48]He grew sick, momma made sure she was there for him[02:08.19]She helped him eat, shower, sleep, despite his narrative[02:11.04]Found out it was cancer, and sadly, there he went[02:13.86]She cried and cried like it was unseen[02:16.39]In just telling me this, she had to hug me[02:19.03]But days before he died, when I had helped him upheave[02:21.75]For the very first time pulled me close, and he told me that he loves me[02:27.08]Tell me that he loves me[02:29.80]Tell me that he loves me[02:32.59]Tell me that he loves me[02:34.18]Just once[02:35.25]Tell me that he loves me[02:38.13]Tell me that he loves me[02:40.87]Tell me that he loves me[02:43.69]Tell me that he loves me[02:45.39]Just once[02:46.44]Tell me that he loves me[02:49.28]Tell me that he loves me[02:52.10]Tell me that he loves me[02:54.90]Tell me that he loves me[02:58.01]Just once