my son Kumari loves hard and brave loves
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as if he’s in apprehensive to the death
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count and loves name his love heals all
00:17
conquers everything son Kumari he loves
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just like his daddy true story of one
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day at his mother’s house he sits on my
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lap she walks past and playfully it
00:31
shoves him he hops off it gives chase
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towards love that he knows loves him
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back just like he loves but I watched
00:39
him learn with running so freely towards
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love will do to you if you do not watch
00:44
me you are going she reached back and
00:47
smacked him the impact incinerated his
00:50
young innocence it was a direct hit you
00:52
could look at his face melting like I
00:54
just got hit with a nuclear weapon you
00:56
could tell he was too busy loving to
00:58
know that there was a war going on and
01:01
now I am forced to flee from the
01:03
enchantment of my son’s freedom be
01:05
reminded of all the times I actually
01:08
thought it was love in the air how the
01:10
explosion hit me the shrapnel of a
01:13
broken heart can rip through everything
01:15
about you beautiful and I remember that
01:19
I loved anyway
01:21
– I loved brandy out of the release of
01:24
the chokehold of her past choices he
01:26
seems so grateful but now a fresh love
01:28
fill her lungs but it was too late
01:30
before I noticed that she had decided to
01:32
keep hanging around with her old
01:34
nuisance I remember how I loved anyway
01:37
like like when she met up we’re gonna
01:40
busted Shannara out of the city that
01:42
held our dreams behind bars with our
01:44
trucks forever must have felt to her
01:46
like confinement coz she broke out of us
01:49
left me a prisoner in my own home I had
01:52
to watch her date other men while living
01:54
with me I remember it all and how I
01:57
loved anyway like when Tony Hsieh told
02:00
me that that guy was her aunt’s
02:01
boyfriend and not hers over my ex-wife
02:03
handed me the phone so I could have a
02:05
conversation with the guy I was sharing
02:07
the orgasms with I remember it
02:10
all and I my love anyway and I just gets
02:14
what am I supposed to teach my son about
02:17
love I can’t tell him that it conquers
02:20
all
02:20
we’re the only thing that’s constantly
02:22
defeated is me I can’t tell him that if
02:26
heals over this open wound of a heart
02:28
just keeps falling in a salty hands
02:30
can’t save him from all the homicidal
02:32
haze that’ll just end up smacking the
02:34
life out of his ability to love right
02:36
like his mom did all I can do is tell my
02:39
son to love anyway like his daddy she
02:45
threw all the shots to the heart I’ve
02:46
taken you can see I am still here son
02:49
loving hard and I bet yet love anyway
02:53
like it has never done anything wrong
02:54
cuz you’ll never be wrong loving people
02:57
who do not deserve it you only be wrong
02:59
to stop loving when you yourself are so
03:02
deserving of love but I will tell my son
03:05
of love is the love anyway be a hero a
03:08
Purple Heart a kind of honor that leaves
03:11
no love lost or left behind because of
03:14
you and I fighting for love then you are
03:16
only fighting against it and I simply
03:18
refuse to raise you to become somebody
03:22
else’s war
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