Verse 1
If I die today/ tell my mother that I love her and I'll shine a ray/ i'll shine it right her way/ I'll shine it right away/ so she can know her baby boy didn't die in vain/ love died in these veins/ I did everything I could just to make it good/ if only my ex girlfriends understood/ should my next girl be from the hood/ or should I just text girls that wanna uhhh/ I digress/ my tombstone should read 'money on my mind, pride on my chest, love inside my heart, family over everything, didn't always get it right, i tried my best'/ tell my father I became a man/ the day he taught me how tie a tie and always raise my hand/ if I got something to say, but never raise a hand/ to place em on a woman, what an amazing man/
Hook
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take,
don't cry for me, don't shed a tear
Just ride for me on this day every year,
To my homies the best is near,
So if I die today, just pretend I'm there.
Verse 2
If I die today, I hope I'm forgiven/ for all the things that I did when I shoulda asked for permission/ and if sorry's not enough, das your own bad decision/ I'm at peace with all my actions and my transgressions/ may angels protect me on my ascension/ if I'm sworn to hell, I'm selecting my own henchmen/ gimme Hitler, gimme Stalin, if I ever get fenced in/ I'll need the coldest blooded soldiers standing at attention/ but I'm pretty sure/ my legacy is secure/ may have lost a few battles, succeeded in war/ may they never forget me/ may they always respect me/ may they say that they rep me, with their feet to the floor/ never on their knees, take from the rich, feed to the poor/ and don't feel too bad, they don't need it no more/ and when they ask you who sent you, tell em 'an iron fist/ with the mind of a Mayan prince'/ tell em 'a dying wish'/
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Verse 3
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
I shot a text to the bouncer at the pearly gates/ "Aye its Duane, secure me a space/ what's the line lookin like, not sure I can wait/ unless my fam reserves me an earlier wake/ and if you got any tables left I'ma need one/ preferably wit a view of the Garden of Eden/ tell my grandfathers I'm dying to meet em/ so we can break bread n pop bottles of Freedom/
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credits
from Drink Up,
released April 21, 2013
Produced by Sinima Beats
Recorded at Black Diamond Studios in Portland, OR
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