Don't Leave (When Winter Comes)

[Verse 1: Deacon da Villain]

Ridin' down the road... lookin' out the window

At times it can feel like home is when I'm gone

On only roads we roam, Cali to Rome

Me and everybody I love livin' through phone

Never been one for hugs, but I long

Across time zones for strength from fam

Who are only with me through video and digital camera

Lookin' for answers, seekin' the chance ta

Make up for time that got lost in these stanzas

The click of my heels ain't takin' me to Kansas

Thinkin' bout Tuck got me stuck in these transits

My heart speaks Sanskrit with no translator

My soul seeks a hand-stiched love and a prayer

Shit, I'm everywhere, but home, I'm never there

And some I care for say I'm February air

Don't even know the mayor's name in my own town

Been makin' noise but forgot how my home sound

"... but please don't leave me standing here, when the winter comes"

[Verse 2: Slug]

Listen up, I've been meaning to say this

I'm not the greatest, I'll never make that list

But everytime I come home, you're still there waitin'

In case I never said it, thanks for your patience

Never got rich and famous, don't get me wrong

There's a lot of different faces that listen to the songs

But there's no big time, never wrote the hit rhyme

Had to roll the highway just to go and get mine

And when I got it, I brought it back to you

Wasn't even sweatin' you was reppin' with a new crew

I don't expect you to hold your breath

Just know you're blessed, and let me get that open chest

Look, you've cried with me, you've tried to forget me

You feel neglected 'cause sometimes I'm busy

You still hold me down on the Southside, dig me

You always forgive me, 'cause you're my city

"... but please don't leave me standing here... "

[Verse 3: Natti]

To make it happen with this rappin' is a part of my goal

But leavin' you little man, takes a part of my soul

Believe me, daddy know it ain't gon' be easy

Better this then have you waitin' for the state to release me

Seein' me through glass, missin' moments to squeeze me

I'll be damned, I want for you all that I never had

No growin' up with hate for an invisible dad

Wanna hold you when you cry, tickle you 'til you laugh

I'm tryin' to walk a path, right now you don't understand

You two and barely talkin' and yet you my greatest fan

I love you more then life, you with me every flight

I leave in dead of night to keep from hearin' you cry

My luggage outta sight to fight off the say goodbye

If you could form the words, I know you'd say "Daddy, why? "

And I would have to tell you how this is for you and I

I'll be back 'fore November, but daddy has gotta fly

"... but please don't leave me standing here, when the winter comes

When the winter comes, oh when the winter comes"

"Gonna keep on walkin' forward, keep on walkin' forward

Gonna keep on walkin' forward, never turning back

Gonna keep on walkin' forward"