My Love For You Lyrics
My love for you
is like a angel flyin' thru the sky
like a bird in
the winter, and
your love for me
is so deep, and sorta like a black
rose cracking the cement
My love for you
lives on like the memory of
Aaliyah singin' a last song
and your love for me
will never die like
a black child struggling the ghetto to survive
My heart goes out to
the beautiful woman that raised me
20 years after the Watts Riot, early
80's
pops on drugs, moms couldn't take me in
had a daughter
already, said she was to young to feed another baby
and shit got crazy,
then 2 years came went
baby's just growing away, we can't even pay the
rent
no hot water, i reminisce, tears runnin' down my face as i hold my
daughter
you spent years by the fire place, i was in the garden every
Sunday at the church
bible study at the carters, i was hard head
back then i was selling crack
when your hard earned money paid for
basketball practice
always at the game on time, yelling at the
coaches
wondering why your baby boy's sitting on the pon'
even thou
life gets hard sometimes, i keep my head up
and i can make the sun shine
in just one rhyme
walk with me.
My love for you
is
like a angel flyin' thru the sky
like a bird in the winter, and
your love for me
is so deep, and sorta like a black rose cracking the
cement
My love for you
lives on like the memory of Aaliyah singin'
a last song
and your love for me
will never die like a black child
struggling the ghetto to survive
And now the lanes at the 57
Lincoln Continental, peddle to the floor
looking for the highway to
heaven, remember when your baby boy was 7
we had good times like i was
Jay Jay and you was Florida Evans
I should have listen to the reverend,
now i drain my pain in this 40 ounce
and these born ass records,
disrespecting your house
living reckless, look at me, inside your jewelry
box
about to pawn your necklace, every night you were in the window,
lookin'
but what you do when your grandson's crooked, and he to old for
whoopin'
used to tell me i was smarter than that, took me down to the
Compton, swap meet,
bought my first starter hat, pulled over raider
jacket to match
a pair of Levis, a number 8 Jordan's with the all black
straps
when you died my soul cracked, can i get a soul clap
I'm
walking without a heart, can somebody hold that
My love for
you
is like a angel flyin' thru the sky
like a bird in the winter,
and
your love for me
is so deep, and sorta like a black rose
cracking the cement
My love for you
lives on like the memory of
Aaliyah singin' a last song
and your love for me
will never die
like a black child struggling the ghetto to survive
I got a lot of
things i wanna ask the Lord
like why i can't see my grandmother face no
more
and why i can't seem to live without her
and if i pray could
he send her back to me one day
cause heaven to crowded, every time i
think about it
i'm missin' your smile, can barely cough
my angel is
gone, i'm heartbroke, drowning in my own tears
somebody throw me a robe or
spread my wings so i can fly
i'm ready to die
might cry but i'm
still a man, might be a man but i still cry
big mama my angel in the
sky
if you wanna feel my pain, then close your eyes, hold your breath
now that's to close to death, open your eyes
see the light now, and if
you love your grandmother like i love mine
go tell her right now, i know
how this might sound
but my plan is to show you that i understand, you
are appreciated
My love for you
is like a angel flyin' thru
the sky
like a bird in the winter, and
your love for me
is so
deep, and sorta like a black rose cracking the cement
My love for you
lives on like the memory of Aaliyah singin' a last song
and your love
for me
will never die like a black child struggling the ghetto to survive
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