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Chorus:
This is a dedication
To those who moved on
Because the world couldn’t hold ‘em, they soul was too strong
This is for fallen soldiers
This is for fallen angels
This is for hustlers in Heaven still workin’ all the angles
This is a dedication
To those who moved on
Because the world couldn’t hold ‘em, they soul was too strong
Remember the time
Remember the place
Remember the day
I first saw your face

Verse:
This for my great uncle. He gave me good advice
Came back to life once—I guess he couldn’t twice
Sat at his funeral silent and didn’t say nothin’…
I had to laugh to keep from cryin’, I ain’t frontin’
This for my wife’s pops. Even when life stops
She don’t forget it, kept his necklace in a white box…
And every day when I see it
I tell him “Thank you” for leavin’ his daughter
Now I got a reason for breathin’
This for my grandfathers. My grandma Esther, too
My grandma Claire, still here, we remember you
This is for hard times. This is for better days
This for my folks who decided to go they separate ways
This for my pop’s struggle. This for my mom’s hustle
Single mother, plus she was in school? That’s a strong hustle
You had to pawn your watch? Put up your name buckle?
Welcome to Broakland…I grew up in the same jungle
I play the Ojays, backstabbers always
Try to get over but, yo’, I’ma show ‘em the doorway
That’s how they do you in the streets, I guess
I can’t sleep, but it’s killin’ me—I need my rest!
My little cousin ‘bout to go to jail…who can afford the bail?
Judge let the case go forward, told him it’s no appeal
That’s how it is—it’ll always be fucked
We ended up in Broakland, where I’ll always be stuck
But…
Chorus 2:
This is a dedication
To those who moved on
Because the world couldn’t hold ‘em, they soul was too strong
This is for hustlers in Heaven still workin’ all the angles
This is for fallen soldiers
This is for fallen angels
This is a dedication
To those who moved on
Because the world couldn’t hold ‘em, they soul was too strong
Remember the time
Remember the place
Remember the day
I first saw your face

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