Young mothers 

That's right 

I feel ya (hey) 

I know how it is 

(MAMA's JUST A LIL' GIRL) 

Don't nobody understand 

I feel ya 



[Verse 1: Tupac]



She was .. 

Born A heavy set girl with pig tails and curls 

A heart full of gold 

Still it won't change the world 

Though she could never understand why 

Some underhanded plans, witnessed a man die 

Was only 15 

Should have been a beauty queen 

Still see here crying by the caskets when here parents got killed 

Little girl don't cry 

'Coz even though they died 

You can best believe they watching over thee from the sky 

Never asked for this misery 

But look at what you gettin' 

It's a blessing in disguise 

When you find out your pregnant 

No money, no home 

And even though you all alone 

You'se got to do this on your own 

So baby go on 

I wish you luck 

And if you need me, call 

Just come to me and let me feed you all 

I can understand 

The way it feels when you fighting the world 

Facing all this drama 

When mama's just A little girl 



[Chorus] 



Mama 

Don't know why 

Mama's just a little girl 

Given that she's a ??

Time ain't on her side 

Mama's just a little girl 

(Mama's just a little girl) 

She gotta hold her head up high 



[Verse 2: Tupac] 



At 16 what a beautiful thing 

The very essence of a jet black ebony queen 

And who could tell she would get pregnant at an early age 

She didn't listen, had sex 

Watch her belly raise (hey) 

Got violated by someone she dated 

If this is fate I hate to see the seed she created 

So we wait, though it takes time to build the body and the mind 

She reclines 9 months 

Then finally its time 

What do we find? 

A little grown boy a mind with a tortured soul 

Addicted to a life of crime at no time of the growing stage 

He learned his values on the streets at an early age 

Watch for police 

Don't come home (why) 

'Coz mammas acting crazy 

At the hospital 

'Bout to have another baby 

Like the rose from concrete 

Grown within 

Blessed with twins 

How the hell can mamma raise 3 men 

So we began a closest family 

Such insanity 

A happy home 

For one act inhumanity 

Plus mammas said the seed was corrupted 

Used the rubber belly 

Begging us to breathe if she love us 

Now mamma sits quiet 

Sipping peppermint schnapps 

Turned the house into a spot and made her watch for cops (hey) 

How could mamma bring a thug like me into this world? 

She ain't the cause of all the drama 

Cause mommas just a little girl 



[Chorus] 



Mama 

Don't know why 

Mama's just a little girl 

Liven if she is or not 

Time ain't on her side 

Cause ama's just a little girl 

(Mama's just a little girl) 

She gotta hold her head up high 

(How could she raise us) 



[Verse 3: Tupac] 



Now 

Would she remain in the same spot? 

The gunshots rang, they came from the cane spot 

Now look here 

I see her clutching her son 

In her arms she hurt 

Her heart bleeding as she watched her seed die in the dirt 

Fulfill prophecy 

But who could stop the grief? 

I walk around trying to hold the world up on top me 

Probably be an innocent man 

But still I'm the victim of a curse 

What could be worse? 

Nothing but pain 

Since my birth, taught me functions at the pen 

Cause everybody's in paying back society 

I'm guilty of a life of sin 

I watched the drama occur 

My eyes blurred 'fore I jet it 

I wonder why we all have to die for we get it 

Though we shed tears 

So many peers I done buried 

Worried and scared 

Knowing I'ma see the cemetery 

Must be prepared in this cold world 

No-one cares 

No it ain't fair 

But we all there 

And do our share 

In this land of underhanded schemes and plans 

Vivid dreams of a nigga having g's in hand 

Mamma told me not to be a punk 

Fuck what you talking about coward 

What you niggas want? 



(hey) 

They ain't a thing I wouldn't do for my mamma in this world 

Cause you know I ain't mad at cha 

You' just a little girl 

See mammas just a little girl 

(hey hey) 



[Chorus] 



[Repeat until fade]



Mama 

don't know why 

Mama's just a little girl 

Given that she is or not 

time ain't on here side 

mama's just a little girl 

(mama's just a little girl) 

she gotta hold her head up high 



[Tupac Talking] 



They ask us why we mutilate each other like we do 

And wonder why we hold such little worth for human life 

Facing all this drama 

But to ask us why we to turn from bad to worse 

Is to ignore from which we came 

You see you wouldn't ask why the rose that grew from the concrete had damaged petals 

On the contrary 

We would all celebrate its tenacity 

We would all love its will to reach the sun 

Well 

We are the roses [echo] 

This is the concrete [echo] 

And these are my damaged petals [echo]

Don't ask me why [echo] 

Thank god nigga [echo] 

Ask me how [echo] 

(hahaha) 



You see, mama's just a little girl