Testo So Long - Rittz
Testo della canzone So Long (Rittz), tratta dall'album Last Call
We gather here today to pay our last respects
Bid a sad, but fond farewell
We're also here so that in our own way
We can celebrate and honor your life
When I first met you, it was back in nine-five
When they used to battle other rappers at the football game
In the crowd you would always stand out
Eighth grader, big as hell but you would never look your age
In ninth grade you were killin' seniors on the field
People talkin' 'bout the records that they watched you break
Popular as hell, everybody knew Charles
Balling with you on the night we slapped "Box & Blaze"
You was up in Breckeridge Crest, we was just kids
Smoking blunts in front of your apartment place
You introduced me to my best friend, who was your best friend
I remember when he called that day
He told me that they shot you in the back
You was winnin' in a fight and ever
Since the day ain't been quite the same
So much personality and talent, why they had to take your life away?
I'm screaming hold on
Here one day and the next day gone
But they way too young to have to tell 'em
So long
So long
Have to tell 'em so long
You was a new kid in school from New Jersey
Used to rock the Timberland boots with the camo suit
Used to go inside the kids' pockets in the parking lot
Before school they was scared of you
Me and you were cool, we had mutual friends
Bumped with DJ Clue over at RJ's crib
You had a reputation for playin' no games
Hittin' licks and making people take off all they shit
As time went on you became a good friend
Let your guard down, we would smoke and talk 'bout rap
When Slick was in jail you would check up on me
Told me call you if I had a problem cause you got my back
When I was out of work sellin' herb, you would front me QP's
Shoulda listened to the verse I dropped
Me and you was laughing, saying it's ironic
That my momma was your nurse when you first got shot
In your shoulder but you took it like a soldier
Had somebody watching over you for you to take a shotgun blast
We were growing older, I was broke and always working
All the homies in the circle sort of lost contact
Until a person came into my job, I thought I overheard him saying
That somebody murdered one arm black
I ain't believe it 'til my homie told me
That you're gone and you won't come back
I'm screaming hold on
Here one day and the next day gone
But they way too young to have to tell 'em
So long
So long
Have to tell 'em so long
It's kind of hard for me to write
I've been missing you from the day that we moved back in summer '88
When we come to visit you we always want to stay
You would wake us up to a plate of scrambled eggs
You taught me how to cook, taught us how to fish
You and Dave hoping that the Steelers win the game
We would all laugh, we knew when they screwed up a play
'Cause you would start yelling at the screen
Taught me to enjoy simple things, it would mean the world
Sitting on the porch with you when you feed the squirrels
Whistle with the birds, food from the meal that you made us
Chill, watch Vanna on the wheel
Come and spend Christmas with you every year
Summers too, when I'm home wishing I was there
Next to you and Mamaw, sitting in your chair
I could never fit into the slippers that you wear
Tell a joke here and there
You ain't really say much, giving your opinion or a comment
You drove a tank in the second World War, was in combat
You ain't never brag about your time in
You had open heart surgery when you were in your sixties
Never thought that you would see ninety
Saw us go through phases, you would never judge us
All you did was love us blindly, and finally
I had a day off right before a show in Pittsburgh
I was happy that I spent it with you
The rest of the family come and visit you a lot
Last five years I don't really get to
Mom said you were really sick too
Had a big bruise on you cause you fell in the shower
And now all you wanna talk about are the plans
What Mamaw's supposed to do without ya
Having trouble getting in and out ya
Chin nodding out in the middle of a sentence while you talking
I could tell that you're frail and you fought death off for so long
Now you finally feel exhausted
Time to go, I don't really wanna leave
Said "I love you Pap" like it's gonna be my last
Five days later I was told that you passed
And you finally let go of your grasp
But hold on
Still we mourn, can't believe you're gone
But your spirit lives on and on through us for so long
So long
Have to tell 'em so long
This song's dedicated to the memory of Charles Leonard
AKA Main
Debany Smith
AKA Sahdee
AKA Black
My grandfather, Fred Throckmorton
I love you, Pap
We miss you
Forever
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Writer(s): Sacha Skarbek, James Mccollum, Lisa Marie Presley
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