Discipline Songtext
von Richard Pryor

You know my grandma would discipline me
I mean beat my ass
I deserved them too
She used to beat my ass
You remember them switches
You used to have to go get yourself
To beat your own ass with
And it had them leaves on you
Had to go

I see them trees today
I stop the car and get out the car
And kill all them motherfuckers
Right I see one and say
You won′t grow up you motherfucker


Right cause that was some hell of a psychology right
To make you go get a switch to beat your own ass with
Right my grandma said
Boy go get me something to beat your ass with
And that would be the longest walk in the world
You'd be going

And you knew you couldn′t come back with no little one either
Cause if you come back with a little one
She going out there and get the tree and beat your ass with it
Right you'd be going in the house
That vine makes such a weird sound in your ear
You'd be going

It make you start crying before you get in the house
Mama
Mama I won′t do it no more
Mama I won′t do it no more
Mama please
Mama I won't do it no more
Mama I won′t do it no more

And like I said my mama would beat my ass with anything right
Like she'd take them old douchebag pipes
You remember them old long red cards
On them big fat douchebags
You remember my grandmother used to call them a hot water bottle


Used to hang in the bathroom on a coat hanger
Smell like vinegar

Boy she′d rip that boy off and tear your ass up

And I'd always try to go to sleep to get out of ass whooping right
You know I′d pass up supper and everything
Ease in the covers and well shit I got it made
She'd wake your ass up
One in the morning
Get your ass out that bed
I told put your
Don't you run from me
Don′t you ever run from me

As long as you black
Don′t you run from me

And you wake up in the morning
Welts and shit be all on your face
Nuts all swole up
You'd be good for eight months
Be no trouble

Cause I hated for my father like to discipline me
Cause that motherfucker just hit you with anything
Nigga didn′t he make you hurt yourself
You know he said say nigga

You know fuck your own eye out and shit

And my dad would say shit to me just scare me
Cause I'd be coming in
You know he called it when I was smelling my piss

He was scary to talk to right
I′d say hey dad I'm going to the movie
You know he′d say say nigga you wanna take
That bass out your voice when you talk to me
I'm going to the movie if you let me dad
Please I hope it's okay

One time I got tired of him and kicking my ass
You know I had a fight with him in the front yard
Well it wasn′t exactly a fight
I did the best I could

I said man I′m tired of taking these ass whoopings
I ain't taking no fucking more
And that′s it
What you a man now motherfucker

Yeah okay
And he hit me in the chest so hard
That my chest just caved in
And wrapped around his fist
And held it there
I wasn't letting that fist go
I didn′t give a fuck what he did
My chest had that fist
Every way he moved his arm I was hanging on

And I didn't know he wasn′t gonna kill me
You know cause he grabbed me by my throat
My eyes was getting big and shit
And he bust my head against the cement
And some blood came out
And when you see your own blood you freak
I start trying to push that shit back down in there
I said dad I'm your son I'm your son I′m your son
He said no motherfucker you was a man a minute ago

He was beautiful though Jack
Motherfucker had strength
Inner strength you know a good human being
Motherfucker had a lot of heart
Say anything that was on his mind
Anytime
I mean he was brutally honest

Like we was going to my stepmother′s funeral
And it was like one of the coldest
Days in the history of Peoria Illinois
Like 20 below zero
And I'm sitting in the backseat with my father crying
Shit I say pop it′s alright man it's gonna be okay
He said man it get any colder I′m gonna bury the bitch by herself

Now I'm not lying that′s my father I wouldn't lie on him
You know he'd be at the graveyard talking to the preacher
Say say man when the shit over goddamn
Get to the part about the date
Shit I love you baby but goddamn it′s cold out here

Then you go home right and you eat everything
All the neighbors bring food
You know like everybody bring something
You eat and drink forget about the past and shit
Try to look forward

Lady named Miss Irene brought some dressing
Beautiful dressing with almonds you know
It was beautiful
Miss Irene used to help raise me too
You know with my grandmother
And she had some beautiful dressing
We was eating it till somebody saw some little feet on they almonds

Say Rich there′s some feet hanging on my almond
Say well you the only one got a roach motherfucker
The rest of us had almonds now kiss my ass
I don't wanna hear this shit alright
My grandmother said now don′t say nothing to her boy
Say you know she going blind
Say she can't see very well
She probably left the oven open overnight and they crawled in there

But you did have roaches baby
Mmm you had roaches just like everybody else
They good too wasn′t they honey

I said this damn you know it's damn near
Impossible to kill motherfucking roaches
I mean they just won′t die
You be talking about decon roaches laugh in your face
Roaches come out they say hey when you gonna have some more decon
Say Friday okay
Say there's a decon party Friday fella

You got anything for the rats cause they coming Thursday

Ain't nothing can kill roaches for sure except 12D