When We Where Friends

Hey, hey, hey... hey...

Hey, hey, hey... heeey...

[Chorus]

Ooh ask me my nigga

The only one there that'll be my nigga

And I'm gon' finally be free my nigga

But you don't have to follow me my nigga

Oh yeah it's still love my nigga

And I ain't gon' stop just because my nigga

?Daddy Paxson? always does my nigga

And always remember what it was my nigga

La da da da... la dadadadada... [4X]

[Verse 1]

When we were friends, the days would begin and end

Went from boys to men, we boys 'til then

We know each other real, we know each other rules

And we wore each other's clothes and each other's shoes

But in an instance, the days become distance

Your path doesn't go in the same direction his went

And can't help but be scared

Of the virtually unknown up ahead (I heard what you said)

But I'll be fine

Whether it is favor or failure, it must be mine

Well he can stand still, if that's how that man feel

Cuz what can't can't and whatever can will

So I'm walking toward my future with my back to it

Hoping you look up and see me as a reason to do it

When you get grown it's a given

You damn near gotta do the same thing for a living

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]

And my cousin I love him like a son cause I was him

And he think his thuggin' pleases me but it doesn't

How could I applause it when I had caused it

But if it's God's plan for him, I guess I ain't cost shit

for what I gave him - wasn't so bad I couldn't save him

Either they'll enslave him or a gun'll grave him

I still believe in him but he think I'm leavin him

When I be busy he think I'm bob-n-weavin him

I probably sound like his daddy

But over the phone, cause I ain't around - like his daddy

When we talk I wanna hear you be productive

Conversate for hours 'bout something constructive

But it never come up

With all them niggaz round your neck you ain't gon' never come up

Maybe I'm jealous cause you love them more

Can't understand what you love them for

Don't get me wrong you know I love them too

But you know who I always hold above them, you

And it ain't nobody business

I'll just make believe that music can miraculously mend this

So I'll be a sound

And then you do your thing to it and we mix it down

And make a song my nigga, cause even when I'm away I'll always be around

[Chorus]