Being a man don't mean you have to fight for honour being a man don't mean you got the right to all the all the things that make your eyes grow open wide those things don't earn you true respect, they are not a measure of your pride it takes more strength sometimes to turn and walk away when you feel like you got to prove that you're a man and you don't play being a man isn't easy but please try to be a man being a man isn't measured by your way with women i need a man who will stand by me through thick and thin cause any boy can make a child and disappear and deny responsibilities crying on that life ain't fair it isn't easy to stay on an raise a child but you took the time to make a baby take the time to make a life being a man isn't easy but please try to be a man sometimes the things you've got to do they seem so wrong no-one said that life was fair we all got to carry on being a man isn't easy but please try to be a man