I Wish

[00:00.59] I wish, I wish, I wish (To every city)
[00:03.64] I wish, I wish, I wish (Every hood)
[00:06.66] I wish, I wish, I wish (And every block)
[00:09.24] I wish, I wish, I wish (Ghetto America)
[00:11.78] Rollin' through the hood, just stopped by to say, what's up?
[00:14.63] And let you know your baby boy ain't doin' so tough
[00:17.92] Even though you passed, goin' on four long years
[00:21.14] Still wakin' up late at night cryin' tears
[00:24.31] Just thinkin' about those days you used to talk to me
[00:27.78] Smilin' while I'm sippin' on this Hennessy
[00:30.47] And remember, we'd brag on how rich we would be
[00:33.92] To get out this hood was like a fantasy
[00:36.13] And now you hear my songs the radio is playin'
[00:38.63] Oh, I can't believe my ears
[00:40.21] And what everybody is sayin'
[00:42.89] Boy, I tell you folks don't know the half
[00:45.41] I would give it all up just to take one ride (With you)
[00:48.94] How I used to kick it on the front porch (With you)
[00:51.78] And how I used to lay back and smoke weed (With you)
[00:54.95] And all the little basement party joints we'd do
[00:58.13] Now, I'm just missing you
[00:59.93] How I wish, I wish that I could hold you now
[01:03.99] I wish that I could touch you now
[01:06.10] I wish that I could talk to you
[01:09.10] Be with you somehow
[01:11.74] I know, I know you're in a better place
[01:15.86] Even though I can't see your face
[01:18.97] I know you're smilin' down on me
[01:21.19] Sayin' everything's okay
[01:26.93] And if I make it out this thug life
[01:29.18] See you again someday
[01:31.78] I wish, I wish, I wish
[01:34.76] I wish, I wish, I wish
[01:36.83] Ever since this money come, it's been nothing but stress
[01:39.94] Sometimes I wish that I could just trade in my success
[01:43.04] Y'all look at me and say, boy, you've been blessed
[01:46.17] But y'all don't see the inside of my unhappiness
[01:49.26] Man, I swear this shit gets heavy like a ton
[01:51.79] That's why you hear me shootin' this real shit off like a gun
[01:55.29] I wonder how my friends would treat me now
[01:57.93] If I wasn't iced up with a Bentley and a house
[02:00.96] That's why fake-ass niggas get fake-ass digits
[02:03.80] And fake-ass players get a real player hatin 'em
[02:07.57] "Honey Love" goes platinum and y'all ass come 'round
[02:10.38] But y'all don't wanna raise the roof until my shit is goin' down
[02:13.22] And now you hear my songs the radio is playin'
[02:15.77] Oh, I can't believe my ears
[02:17.41] And what everybody is sayin'
[02:19.95] Boy, I tell you folks don't know the half
[02:22.54] I would give it all up just to take one ride (With you)
[02:26.06] And how I used to hoop off in them to tournaments (With you)
[02:29.18] And how I used to club hop on weekends (With you)
[02:32.18] Your family called the morning of the tragic end
[02:35.15] Damn, my condolences
[02:38.08] I wish that I could hold you now
[02:41.28] I wish that I could touch you now
[02:44.19] I wish that I could talk to you
[02:46.43] Be with you somehow
[02:49.03] (Oh I know) I know you're in a better place
[02:52.98] Even though I can't see your face
[02:56.16] I know you're smilin' down on me
[02:58.22] Sayin' everything's okay
[03:04.07] And if I make it out this thug life
[03:06.12] See you again someday
[03:08.87] I wish, I wish, I wish
[03:11.80] I wish, I wish, I wish
[03:14.17] Voices in my head been tellin' me to come to church
[03:17.04] Say, the Lord is the only way for you to stop the hurt
[03:20.26] Dreamin' of windows, black-tinted like a hearse
[03:23.37] But wakin' up to life sometimes seems worse
[03:26.82] And all I ever wanted is to be a better man
[03:30.19] And I try to keep it real with my homies, man
[03:33.34] Want me to save the world, I don't understand
[03:36.23] How did I become the leader of a billion fans
[03:38.58] And now you hear my songs the radio is playin'
[03:40.83] Oh, I can't believe my ears
[03:42.44] And what everybody's sayin'
[03:44.84] Boy, I tell you folks don't know the half
[03:47.54] I would give it all up just to take one ride (With you)
[03:51.10] How I used to street perform on Friday (With you)
[03:54.10] And how I'd go to church on Easter Sunday (With you)
[03:57.19] Instead of y'all throwin' them stones at me
[04:00.97] Somebody pray for me
[04:02.26] Oh, I wish that I could hold you now
[04:06.04] I wish that I could touch you now
[04:09.05] I wish that I could talk to you
[04:11.34] Be with you somehow
[04:13.93] (Still I know) I know you're in a better place
[04:18.37] Even though I can't see your face
[04:21.38] I know you're smilin' down on me
[04:23.20] Sayin' everything's okay
[04:26.14] Oh, I wish that I could hold you now
[04:29.40] I wish that I could touch you now
[04:33.07] I wish that I could talk to you
[04:35.56] Be with you somehow
[04:39.28] I know you're in a better place
[04:42.47] Even though I can't see your face
[04:45.64] I know you're smilin' down on me
[04:47.61] Sayin' everything's okay
[04:50.53] Oh, I wish that I could hold you now
[04:54.31] I wish that I could touch you now
[04:57.52] I wish that I could talk to you
[05:00.03] Be with you somehow
[05:03.64] I know you're in a better place
[05:06.64] Even though I can't see your face
[05:09.71] I know you're smilin' down on me
[05:11.86] Sayin' everything's okay
[05:14.88] Oh, I wish that I could hold you now
[05:18.76] I wish that I could touch you now
[05:21.99] I wish that I could talk to you
[05:24.38] Be with you somehow
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