Home

The hardest part 'bout leavin' home is leavin' home Which constitutes my mother and my sisters Even mister Jameson and his kids and my cats My little cousins growin' up so fast Life flashes before my eyes I'm like, "Why is this there? What is that?" So much is different when I get back To my crib, but the one thing that is constant Is Marilyn, Mellanie, Yolanda Marie, and Leti Lalo, Mikey, and Jaime, my family That is home, and it's so tough To leave them for three whole months At a time, but meanwhile, I'll spit a rhyme To hold me over 'til I return to my Home is where I want to be But family is it, and we're split One-hundred ninety-three miles apart And it's so hard to do Every time I have to go to school But it, it must be done, so Home is where I want to be But family is it, and we're split One-hundred ninety-three miles apart And it's so hard to do I only talk to my mother twice In a two-weeks' span of time 'Cause it hurts me Every line that I say only reminds Me of where I'm not, who not with And I visit less I get depressed when I leave home after Winter Break I'm filled with pain: homesickness That's why I stay on campus all through the term Benefits me to unlearn What I left It cools the burn To not think of my family when we're separate It sucks when I go to Chicago, but not home 'Cause it floods the gates of my memory And it taints it Jeremy (Is) Oh so close but, oh so far I don't know why I don't own a car It would make it so much easier To get from here, there, anywhere when I yearn Home is where I want to be But family is it, and we're split One-hundred ninety-three miles apart And it's so hard to do When I'm not at home, I'm blinded To all these problems, these issues That my cousins are going through When they misuse all types of drugs Little junior's getting faded There's hate in his soul He's been suffering so long He prolongs his smoke I just woke up Don't know what's goin' on at home And my older one's an addict now Takin' this and that and wonderin' how Far she can go to expand her mind Experimental or mentally broke? Either way, messin' wit' drugs ain't a joke I just hope you are both safe It's okay to seek help If you need to, then tell Somebody what you're goin' through, and hell Just know that I love you both, wish you well I just wish I can be there, truly knew what you felt Home is where I want to be But family is it, and we're split One-hundred ninety-three miles apart And it's so hard to do Being at Knox keeps me up Thinking about the time I lost with my family Priscilla's daughter doesn't even know her uncle Jeremy "Where's he been all this time?" Getting my upper education I'm ashamed when these questions asked It's my task that she learns exactly who I am When I return to my fam In my hands, I will grasp Baby Elva Forever shelter all of my family under this roof This the proof that I give to you