Die For You

So yo, today your birthday? (Yes, yeah)

You sure? (Daddy)

I don't think today your birthday (then what you call me for?)

Oh, I don't know, I just called to see what you was doing

You sure, what, what, what you turn today?

What you turn today, 19? (No, I'm turnin' 10, Daddy)

Nah, you turnin', what 32, 32, you 32 today

(You have been away for a long time)

It feel like it, don't it? (Yeah)

Yeah, but I miss you though, you miss me?

(Yes, very much, I just wish you could be here)

Word? (Yes)

Okay, I'll be there soon, a'ight? (You gon' be here tonight?)

Naw, boo-boo, I ain't gon' be there tonight (aww)

Woo! Mm, uh (yeah)

Uh, uh, uh, uh, c'mon

Yeah (yeah)

Don't you know I'll die for you? (Die for you)

I'll lay down my life for you

I would die for you (die for you, yeah)

Don't you know I'll die for you? (Die for you)

I'll lay down my life for you

I would die for you (die for you)

(I love you, Daddy)

I remember February 27, 1994

Tryna make it to the hospital through three inches of snow (ay)

Somethin's goin' wrong, I can tell, but I don't know

I got this feelin' in my gut, this ain't how it's supposed to go

Three pounds, two ounces and two months premature

I tell the incubator, is she gon' make it? They ain't sure

Automatically I place the blame on my health

Hell, I'm her father, mayne, I place the blame on myself

Was it somethin' that I smoked, did I eat or did I drink it?

Or was it somethin' I was doin' that I did, or did I think it?

Huh, watchin' her breathe through her holes in her nose

What's this EKG machine? What's this shit on her toes?

It's '94, I'm 85, so I'm spooked as can be (c'mon!)

I'm prayin', and I'm askin' why He do this to me

See, I used to hold you in the palm of my hand

And just to see you pull through

Shit, I knew you'd pull through

Yeah (yeah)

Don't you know I'll die for you? (Die for you)

I'll lay down my life for you

I would die for you (die for you, yeah)

Don't you know I'll die for you? (Die for you)

I'll lay down my life for you

I would die for you (die for you)

March 2-2nd, 1999

The year and the date I got my lil' man

I guess I felt how my father felt and his father felt

And his father musta felt to see hisself

It's like a lil' me in the flesh

He got my blood and my heart in his chest

Needless to say, man, I love him to death

Teach him if he disrespect me I'ma love him to death

Left to go out of town right after he was born

I got a record deal, three months later, Daddy was gone

It's like I'm tryin' to raise him over the phone

He barely know my face when he see it, but he know my tone

I'm hopin', I'm like, "Do he know who his Daddy is?"

I'm real close to sayin' fuck the showbiz

But when I hurr him, call his Daddy now

And when I hurr him tell his friends, "I'ma be just like my Daddy now"

Hope he forgive me for the sacrifice

So he can have a better life than I had

Yeah (yeah)

Don't you know I'll die for you? (Die for you)

I'll lay down my life for you

I would die for you (die for you, yeah)

Don't you know I'll die for you? (Die for you)

I'll lay down my life for you

I would die for you (die for you, yeah)

Don't you know I'll die for you? (Die for you)

I'll lay down my life for you

I would die for you (die for you, yeah)

Don't you know I'll die for you? (Die for you)

I'll lay down my life for you

I would die for you (die for you)