Ma - How You Gonna Tell Me Lyrics

See, every time me and my man get into a fight
This girl is giving her advice
She wanna say he ain't no good and she think I should
Get another man in my life
But I don't see how she gon' tell me
What she think a man should or should not be
'Cause her love life ain't right, she needs to get it tight
Before she be steppin' to me

Now come on, if you've been divorced more than twice
And you wanna give advice 'bout my love life, oh no
You can just forget that, I don't need that
So you can just go ahead and keep that
And if you always lookin' a mess
But yet you wanna tell me how to dress, oh no
I don't wanna hear that, I won't take that
So you can just go ahead and save that

At least if you were gonna try and give advice
About my life
Have your own shit right
'Cause you ain't even livin' what you preach to me
So please, how you gonna tell me?

At least if you were gonna try and give advice
About my life
Have your own shit right
'Cause you ain't even livin' what you preach to me
So please, how you gonna tell me?

Tell me why do I find that the blind
Is always trying to lead the blind?
They always got something to say every day
About the way you do your thing
But I don't see how they gon' tell me what I need
Or how I need to be
'Cause if they ain't doing what I wanna do
Living like I wanna live
I don't wanna hear it

Now come on, if you've been divorced more than twice
And you wanna give advice 'bout my love life, oh no
You can just forget that, I don't need that
So you can just go ahead and keep that
And if you always lookin' a mess
But yet you wanna tell me how to dress, oh no
I don't wanna hear that, I won't take that
So you can just go ahead and save that

At least if you were gonna try and give advice (give advice)
About my life
Have your own shit right (get your own shit right)
'Cause you ain't even livin' what you preach to me
So please, how you gonna tell me? (Tell me)

At least if you were gonna try and give advice
About my life
Have your own shit right
'Cause you ain't even livin' what you preach to me
So please, how you gonna tell me?

You 'bout to lose your house and your ride too
'Cause you don't handle business like you should do
But you know how to fix my thing (my thing)
You dropped out of school in eleventh grade (eleventh grade)
Strippin' every day just so you could get paid
But you know how to fix my thing
How you gonna tell me, me? Yeah
Whoa, yeah

At least if you were gonna try and give advice (give advice)
About my life
Have your own shit right (get your own shit right)
'Cause you ain't even livin' what you preach to me (yeah)
So please, how you gonna tell me?
At least if you were gonna try and give advice
About my life
Have your own shit right
'Cause you ain't even livin' what you preach to me
So please, how you gonna tell me?

At least if you were gonna try and give advice
About my life
Have your own shit right
'Cause you ain't even livin' what you preach to me
So please, how you gonna tell me? (Yeah)

At least if you were gonna try and give advice (how you gonna tell me?)
About my life
Have your own shit right (tell me, yes)
'Cause you ain't even livin' what you preach to me
So please, how you gonna tell me?

Look, if you wanna give advice
Give advice about my life
Make sure that your shit is tight
How you gonna tell me?
Look, if you wanna give advice
Give advice about my life
Make sure that your shit is tight