A Friend's Blues

Now when your young death can make you aware of your mortality
Yet times we feel invicible, lose site of reality
Until it takes a loved one residing in our circle
It'll hurt you because you miss them
Once were close, now you're distant
And it hurts just to know they could go at any instant
Got to love them by the minute, now you realize this
It's sad it takes a loss to appreciate the gifts
So celebrate the occasion
Just breathing is amazing
To see the sun rise and set at a day's end
A chance to fix mistakes that we regret making
Find joy in the simple things, no time for complaining
The sun will shine, it can't always be raining
I know it hurts deep, but you must maintain
I see it in my homeboys Terry and Tom
They lost so many, yet they keep so strong
To lose a parent or a sibling and have the will to keep living
Takes so much strength, so I admire y'all
And one day hope to find out what inspires y'all
Because I'm still mad asking why it happens at all
Some say that God takes them
And they lean on mythology
But I choose to believe that it's divine lottery
I can't believe God's looking down, waiting to slaughter me
I can't live in fear
And I cant live here forever, so I treasure every moment

And it's friendship that I value the most
That kinship, the ones we hold close
And deal with it the most of losing but keep true
The memories blue because life keeps moving
And it's friendship that I value the most
That kinship, the ones we hold close
And deal with it the most of losing but keep true
The memories blue because life keeps moving

We came together like family like it was our first death
Unexpected, so quick, so sudden, the worst yet
Didn't get to know the girl ? the first breath
Still we loved her like a sister, as a ? first steps
Got the call out of town, so alone I first wept
Deep pain in the same place from where this verse crept
Never slept in that bed again, the memory was too tragic
Looked up and screamed goodbye
You wouldn't be present at the wake in your casket
Now you ask if things change since you left, not really
We still playing games, BSing, acting silly
See, she don't talk to her and she don't like me
And will we work things out, that's not likely
I mean where will we start, do we mend friendships
Or let things fall apart, will we still be in touch?
Honestly I don't know, but you're in my heart forever

And it's friendship that I value the most
That kinship, the ones we hold close
And deal with it the most of losing but keep true
The memories blue because life keeps moving
And it's friendship that I value the most
That kinship, the ones we hold close
And deal with it the most of losing but keep true
The memories blue because life keeps moving
And it's friendship that I value the most
That kinship, the ones we hold close
And deal with it the most of losing but keep true
The memories blue because life keeps moving

And it's friendship that I value the most
That kinship, the ones we hold close
And deal with it the most of losing but keep true
The memories blue because life keeps moving
Blow a blunt while you cruising
Of your friends that you use it
Got to love before you lose it
Stand strong when you do it
Tough times, live through it
Don't give in to them, stay go pursuing
And doing what you doing
Because life keeps moving on