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 s s she did another speed ball now she s going nowhere slow her papa caught her for the first time and put her out on the street cara told me to remind him that she was only seventeen yo mister how s your daughter you really ought to know how s your girl every thing you taught her it don t matter when she s all alone how s your girl cara got hooked up with the wrong kids then s s 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 when 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 how s your girl for everything 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 but 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 everything everything you taught her don t matter when she s all alone but she needs you right now mister she ain t got long to live it s easy to say i love you but it s harder to forgive 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 yo mister how s your daughter how s your daughter tonight 