One Time - Horseshoe Gang

I had never met Granny on my fathers side

Met the one on my mommas side

By the time I was probably 5 I realized that her and momma would never see eye

to eye

But yo time and time again my momma tried

To the point where I figured that I should try

Then grand momma died

I’m raising my voice to the sky to God

Really I’m trying to find out why

She never hugged me just one time

Never told me she loved me just one time

I mean one time would have been just fine

Man people can be so unkind

Maybe you never understood what I would do for

A little bit of your attention shined a few floors

Look every other day I would find a new chore

Hoping you’d like do more

Your dining room floor looked nice and new or I’d find a broom

I’d sweep your entire room till I was too sore

Maybe you didn’t like me cause I was too poor

Misguided views sure

Maybe you didn’t like me cause my skin, didn’t have light skin

My skin wasn’t bright but I was a bright kid

Sorry I didn’t make you proud

I was waiting for you to love something but you didn’t know how

Didn’t know what I was thinking about

But I wanted your love just one time when I was a child

She never hugged me just one time

Never told me she loved me just one time

I mean one time would have been just fine

Man people can be so unkind

But she passed away so God rest her soul

How she really felt about me I will never know

I’m trying to get points across in this song I’m finna be out of breathe and

I’m now even a little bit concerned with breathe control

I remember those cold nights in Oklahoma

We we’re broke and homeless

But before we could be strolling over to your home

And hope you’d open you were on your phone telling us don’t come over

I know that most my folks in Tulsa won’t like this song but

I don’t want to hold a grudge I wrote this in hopes to console

My broken soul to stop this emotional roller coaster

No love no love what the hell was I thinking of?

Now it’s too late to hold you you’ve gone way up above

Sorry I didn’t make you proud

I was waiting for you to love something but you didn’t know how

Didn’t know what I was thinking about

But I wanted your love just one time when I was a child