Testo So Long

We gather here today to pay our last respects amid a sad but fond farewell
We are also here in our own way to honor and celebrate your life

[Verse 1]


I'm screaming hold on
Here one day and the next they 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 at school from the Jersey
Used to rock the Timbaland boots with the camo suit
Used to go inside of kids' pockets in the parking lot before school
They were scared of you
But you and me were cool
We had mutual friends bumpin' DJ Clue up in RJ's crib
You had a reputation for playing no games
Hitting 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 you was outta work selling herb, you could hunt the QPs
You would listen to the verse I dropped
Me and you was laughing saying it was ironic that my mama was the 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 the person came into my job
I thought I overheard him saying that somebody murdered one armed 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 they gone
But they way too young to have to tell 'em so long
So long
Have to tell 'em so long

It's kinda hard for me to write
I been missing you from the day
That we moved back in Summer '88
When we come and visit you, we always wanna 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
Full from the meal that you made us
She watch Vanna on the Wheel
Come and spend Christmas with you every year
Summers too when I'm home wishing I was there
Nasty when Ma-maw 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 ever brag about your time in
You had open heart surgery when you were in your sixties
Never thought you would see ninety
As I was going through phases, you would never judge us
All you did was love, responding when finally
I had a day off right before a show in Pittsburgh
I was hoping I would spend 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 when you wanna talk about all the plans
What Ma-maw s'posed to do without you
Having trouble getting in and out your chair
Not now in the middle of a sentence while you're talking
I can tell that your 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 Pat like it's gonna be my last
Five days later, I was told that you passed
And you finally let go when you grasped

Hold on
Here one day and the next they gone
But they way too young to have to tell 'em so long
So long
Have to tell 'em so long