Back Then

All right, Stop now everyone just close your eyes Relax, Calm down, no need to look at the time Think about a memory that puts a smile on your face Remember the sights the sounds the smell the taste/ Now put yourself back in your shoes I bet that time was great Not a care in the world Goin' through your head of state Every night you got food on your dinner plate A perfect memory is what your tryin' to demostrate/ Ya mom and dad are livin' in perfect harmony Pushin a family sedan down the interstate Livin' middle class status I ain't tryin' to hate This ain't no negative image I'm tryin' to recreate/ Want you to reminisce on things from back in the day When everything was perfect in so many ways When you had to go outside if you wanted to play Instead of waisting your life Over them video games/ Damn/ I'm takin' you back you can feel your hair blowin' Must have you warm inside Darlin your face is glowin' At your grandparents house, yeah that feelin's showin' I know that's a memory there, forever your holdin'/ Before the sickness you had the time of your life Eating snacks with grandma Stayin' up late at night Do anything for that woman Really put up a fight A special bond between us One hell of a sight// Back to the black tops, yeah it was just me and Tae Used to imagine playin' ball in the NBA Really takin' it back we were in the fifth grade Lookin' back at it now, man bro those were the days/ Damn dawg I miss you Tae I just wish you Were here, to experience all of the things that I've been through Dealing with all these issues Ain't got no one to vent to Nobody's got my back like Cruz I'll defend you/ Until that day, I swear God must have sent you My guardian angel, cuz you gave me the strength to Put the guns down for good And pick up the mic And pour my heart into every song that I write/ Sometimes when I'm thinkin' about your memory There's a question inside And it haunts me in my sleep Some days, I swear that it's just so clear to see That bullet wasn't for you, it was meant for me/ You sitting there holding me Instead of me holding you Would have done everything for me That I did for you The real reason I died My mom would've never knew Can't even think of that image If we had traded shoes/ But they say, everything happens for a reason And God don't give nothing that we can't take And that tragedy that happened when we were thirteen Helped mold me into the person that I am today, Tae// ...I just miss you dawg, I wish you were still here, So many things you missed out on cuz your life was cut short, but I know that your in a better place/ And to grandma, I know that you're with me, Everytime I feel like givin up, I know you're lookin down on me, Like always... *** God Bless you both ***