Prince - Yo Mister lyrics

Yo Mister how's your daughter

You really ought to know

For every thing you taught her

Don't matter when she's all alone

My crazy friend named Cara

After all of us told her, “No”

She'd get another speed ball

Now she's going no where slow

Her papa caught her on the first time

And put her out on the street

Cara told me to remind him

That she was only 17

Yo Mister how's your daughter (How's your girl)

You really ought to know

Every thing you taught her

It don't matter when she's all alone

Cara got hooked up with the wrong kids

Then she started skipping school

Then Cara got high to make disappear

A world full of fools

In her eyes her father was the biggest fool of them all

And she was speeding, that's what she'd say

Maybe, maybe, maybe she wouldn't talk so stupid

If she knew how much she needed this fool today

Yo Mister how's your daughter

You really ought to know

For every thing you taught her

Don't matter when she's all alone

She needs you right now Mister

‘Cause she ain't got long to live

It's so easy to say, “I love you”

But it's harder to forgive

Her father cried when I told him

That Cara twice got knocked up

He said, “Just like her mama, uh-huh

She shows her body when she wants to show love

She tried that stuff with me and I beat her down”

There's no way I could let her stay

Couldn't let her stick around

‘Cause I tried so hard to raise her right

He said, “What made her turn out this way”

I don't know

What made her turn out this way

I don't know, I don't know

And I said and I said and I said

Yo Mister how's your daughter

You really ought to know (Every thing)

Every thing you taught her

Don't matter when she's all alone

She needs you right now Mister

She ain't got long to live

It's so easy to say, “I love you”

But it's harder to forgive

Yo Mister how's your daughter (How's your daughter tonight)

Yo Mister how's your daughter (How's your daughter tonight)

Yo Mister how's your daughter (How's your daughter tonight)

Yo Mister how's your daughter (How's your daughter tonight)