1995

Hey We don't really hug like them, but you make an exception when I go I don't call enough, reminders piling on my phone And mama used to say that I don’t care, ain’t sure that she wasn’t wrong But I hope you know, you know And I know we, ain’t always see eye to eye But I’m grown, and still looking up to you How could I leave you behind (Behind, behind) Look how far you done climbed (Look how far you done climbed) Since 1995 (Nineteen, ninety-five) How many different lives Have we lived in our time? (Yeah) And we don’t say "I love you" without, a look to the side Honestly, we probably shouldn’t live in one house, all got too much pride I haven’t been the best son Been bitter, know I stressed you You had me when you were kids Look what you made, just look what you made for us When you were crying in Chi-Town (In Chi-Town) Cause this language got you inside out Still interviewed and locked shit down, you had Bullets right outside the house Got me the visa in Shenyang (Yeah, yeah) You were unemployed when sis' came out For my schooling, bought the house Where would I be if you ever thought about yourselves? Remember when it was just us? We had bussed up To my parents’ place When you said she was in America I ain’t trust that The U.S. was just down the street or something How're you telling me that Adam/Eve left the function? My parents' furniture saran-wrapped like leftovers I got leftover, concrete floor we stepped on never felt colder We were all poor, just the time and place Grandma said, "let’s go home" You told me they’ll be back for me I was never that lonely cause I had you and grandpa And that’s all I needed Sitting by the cassette tapes In my new reality, but they were kinda my best days Back in '96, sharing the bed, hey, with you And I know we, ain’t always see eye to eye But I’m grown, and still looking up to you How could I leave you behind? (You!) (Behind) Look how far we done climbed (Look how far you done climbed) Since 1995 (Nineteen, ninety-five) Ay, look at this family The concrete to the '84 Camry To where we’re at now, I got a legacy to handle Tell Grace, I’ma be a better brother Tell mama, I don’t say enough I love her Tell dad, he was right all along He just delivered it wrong Tell my grandparents, wait, I’ma just call them myself Ay, you know your boy’s grown Getting on his bankroll Moving out my parents’ home In my father’s Volvo Memory Lane like every road In all these cities that we roamed SoCal to Jersey I’m out in Philly, and that was your zone Out west in the east, by train to where I was conceived Four of y'all to a bed, saw it fog when you breathed Mama, you ain’t gotta worry Grandma, you ain’t gotta worry Y’all been too damn smart For me to not obtain the glory