[00:00.23] I know all the times were hard
[00:03.48] I know that you've been feeling down
[00:05.86] If you only knew how I'm feeling for you
[00:11.22] If I could take your pain
[00:13.87] I wish that I could wash it all away
[00:16.32] If you only knew how I'm feeling
[00:21.06] Mommy, I'm sorry if my first letter made you cry
[00:23.70] To be honest with you, I don't think that I want to die
[00:26.47] Sometimes I feel like that I'm cancerous in other's lives
[00:28.93] That's probably why I drink at night and sleep 'til four or five
[00:31.56] It's kind of hard walkin' through life with my distorted eyes
[00:34.06] When I was younger, I was stupid and I thought I'd thrive
[00:36.71] I thought a lot about everything I said in the letter
[00:39.29] And questioned whether or not if I was dead, you'd be better
[00:41.93] You think my shorty would be happy if I never met her?
[00:44.52] It's too late now, mommy, I could never forget her
[00:47.07] Could never forget how she taught me to love
[00:49.42] 'Cause my father and my grandmother is always above
[00:51.73] It's glory above, you know that daddy taught me to thug
[00:54.44] And every time we was with nanny she'd bombard me with hugs
[00:56.93] Damn, I miss her, mommy, and it's hard to believe
[00:59.49] That I'm grown and I don't understand it, why did they leave?
[01:03.89] Better to die and sleep
[01:05.99] The never-waking sleep
[01:08.66] Than linger on and dare to live
[01:10.56] When the soul's life is gone
[01:12.54] You've been running around for so long
[01:15.84] You've been hurting yourself too much
[01:18.24] You keep messing around with darkness
[01:20.82] You're the one who's losing
[01:23.87] You've been running around for so long
[01:26.28] You've been hurting yourself too much
[01:28.60] You keep messing around with darkness
[01:31.14] You're the one who's losing
[01:33.80] Mommy, I think that I'ma try to stick around a while
[01:36.47] I got a niece, and my nephews, they need me 'round a while
[01:39.06] I think they need me 'cause they hittin' that age
[01:41.07] And they ain't tryin' to speak to Lenny 'cause they spittin' they rage
[01:43.77] Yeah, and mommy, speakin' to Lenny, I think my brother need me
[01:46.73] And we Italian, so you know my mother love to feed me
[01:49.50] And it's the little things you do for me that make it worth it
[01:52.03] Like when I play a joint that we did and you say it's perfect
[01:54.70] And when Jake got knocked, you knew that I was hurt
[01:57.12] You told me put all of my heart in the song, and it worked
[01:59.83] I promised him that I'd be there when he got out the bing
[02:02.54] You ain't raise me to be a liar, ma, that's not my thing
[02:05.14] I told him that I'd hold him down the whole time that he gone
[02:07.51] They kept him locked inside a cage, but that's cool, 'cause he's strong
[02:10.17] So mommy, keep that first letter I wrote you on the low
[02:12.78] I think I wanna stay alive and see if I can grow
[02:15.86] You've been running around for so long
[02:18.19] You've been hurting yourself too much
[02:20.67] You keep messing around with darkness
[02:23.25] You're the one who's losing
[02:26.08] You've been running around for so long
[02:28.54] You've been hurting yourself too much
[02:31.02] You keep messing around with darkness
[02:33.52] You're the one who's losing
[02:36.88] You have power and money, but you are mortal
[02:42.77] You know you cannot escape death
[02:46.44] But immortality can be obtained
[02:49.86] The legend is always the same
[02:56.55] If others have succeeded in conquering death
[03:01.34] Why must we accept it?
[03:04.20] I know where the immortals live
[03:09.16] And how to obtain their secret
[03:14.41] We too must become wise men
[03:18.77] The elements of chemistry are many, but finite
[03:23.43] So are the techniques of enlightenment
[03:28.58] I know all the times were hard
[03:31.01] I know that you've been feeling down
[03:33.54] If you only knew how I'm feeling for you
[03:38.72] If I could take your pain
[03:41.51] I wish that I could wash it all away
[03:44.26] If you only knew how I'm feeling
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