Before Your Gone (Song To My Best Friend, Whos Leavin) Off Album
No hook.. Not Right Now neWays..
My Best Friend For 11 Years Is Moving The 29th
Which Is A Day Before His Birthday n' Movin
To Arizona.. Which I Am In New York.. I'll Prolly
Never See Him Again.. At Least In THe Near
Future.. So I Wrote Suttin For Him
My Heart Fulfilled, Yet At The Same Time Empty..
Tupac Said He Seen No Changes, Yet It Seems I See To Many..
Maybe For The Better, Maybe For The Worst..
Maybe For The Hurt I Just Cant Disperse In This Verse..
Close Your Eyes.. Think Of The Times Of How..
Toddlers 2 Kids, Kids 2 Youth n’ Youth To Now..
Same Town, Same Streets, Same Raps, Different Beats..
Same Life, Same Friends, Same Goals But Different Ends..
N’ So The Divident Wont Match The Quotient..
Then Notice.. 10 Of Your Closest Friends Who Would-
-Die For You Like You’d Die For Them Stand Before Us..
We All In This.. We Hold Hands In Tha Form Of Daps..
N’ Cry For Your Departure In The Form Of Laughs..
We Don’t Perform The Act.. It Just Don’t Fit Us..
So Whether Your Gone Physically-
-Mentally We’re Taking You With Us..
Then Go About Our Buisness.. As Best We Could..
SC Is Our Only Dedication Memorialized In Tha Hood..
Visit Tha Bridge.. Where Shorty Left His Mark..
Where’d We Start?.. You Took Your Body To Arizona-
-But Left Cha Heart..
Departed, Broken-hearted, I’ll Take A Trip Round The Block..
Walk The Creek, Jump The Tressel, Creep To The Lower End Of Ya Street-
-And End At Tha Spot..
They May Say This Is To Much.. But To Mie, This Is-
-The Least Of The Most To Do..
What Am I Suppose To Do? They’d Understand If They-
-Only Knew How Entirely Close I am To You!..
I’m Attached To You, n’ The Smile I Seen Through The Years..
But Reality Doesn’t Kick In.. So I think The More I Write-
-The Longer It’ll Keep You Here..
And The People Here.. Wish More Of The Same.. Its Irony..
N’ Out Of The 2 Sides Every Man Has-
-You Brought Out The better Part A Me..
When You Pushin Life, Your Pullin Em More..
All I Got Now Is A Pic Of You n’ Me Tac’d To My Bulletin Board..
Every Seen 11 Years Pass By The Hood That You Spent 7 Here..
Then your Forever Tear’d, But What You Remember Clear..
Before ne1, It Was Me n’ You.. I Love You-
If I Didn’t Get Tha Chance, Just Know That I Meant To..
I Spend These Last Few Days And After Just Wondering-
-Where The Time In Our Friendship Had Went To..
You Can Pack The Memories, But You Cant Pack The Years..
N’ When Your Not Here, I Got Nothing There To Back These Tears..
My Fights’ Time, Has Reached Its Night Time..
You Were Always There.. So Next Time We Out-
-Ima Expect To See You Creepin On My Right Side..
My Shoulders Bare, Where Your Head Would Look Down At Mine..
Yet Inevitable Signs, n’ Memories Only There To Even Out The Times..
Cant Rely On Dreams.. To Dream What We Made It..
Ways Taken, Your Leavin A Day Before Your Birth N’ I’m Gon’ Realize-
-( I Cant Even Call You Up To Say It..)
So Happy Birthday Kid.. Too Bad I Couldn’t Be Their For Ya Fifteenth..
Ima Take This Like A Piece Of Cake, When I Say I’m Takin u Wit Me..
The Line Gets Drawn.. Its Time To Draw Tha Line..
Accepting Is The Hardest Part.. But Its Time We Say-
-Goodbye For Good This Time..
You Took Our Minds n’ Leave Us To Find A New Side..
N’ We All Have Our Own Personal Messages-
-But Lemme Try To Sum This Up For Tha Fammily In 2 Lines..
We’ll Stay Together Kid.. Whenever, Wherever Kid, Forever Kid..
N’ You Know You Got Fammily In New York.. So Just Remember This..
(talking)
“Damn.. I Was Out Smokin A Cigarette Tha Other Night, Lookin At Tha Sky And That’s When Reality Hit Me.. Like Shit, I Cant Call You Up No More. N’ When It Comes Down To It.. I Really Have No Idea When Ima See You Again. But I Will See You Again… Life’s An Obstacle.. Don’t Let It Get In Your Way.. N’ Remember Ya Home, Ya Fammily.. We Wont Forget You.. So Don’t Forget Us… We Love you Kid”
