[Hook: Ben Harper samples]
Until once again
Your eyes look into mine
Now all, all of life
Is just passing the time
Until once again
Your eyes look into mine

[Verse 1]
Since early as first grade, I knew that you always had me
The only kid with braids, the other kids were laughing at me
I looked you right in your eyes, you looked me back into mine
You held me close, you wiped my eyes and told me it’ll be fine
My brothers and sisters nine, we suffered through perilous times
But you kept giving them love, well some of us turned to drugs and crime
We moved through ghetto to ghetto, struggling from hood to hood
Don’t mention the bills, you had to make meals from like whatever you could
Remember the days of eating mayonnaise and Wonder Bread
Wondering if Daddy’s dead or simply where the n***a at
I blame my father for leaving you stuck with ten seeds to raise
Somewhere near the early age a father n***a had learned to hate
So every since the day you left I fell out of love with writing
Life no longer seems exciting, guess we wasn’t supposed to win
Now all my life is just a matter of passing time
Until the day that your eyes are looking back into mine