Writer(s): R. Kelly
To every city every hood and every block
Ghetto Rollin' through the hood just stopped by to say what's up
An' let ya know your baby boy ain't doin' so tough
Even though you've passed goin' on four long years
Still wakin' up late at night cryin' tears
Just thinkin' about those days you used to talk to me
Smilin' while I'm sippin' on this Henessy
An' remember we'd brag on how rich we would be
To get up out this hood was like a fantasy
Oh I can't believe my ears an' what everybody's sayin'
Boy I'll tell you folks don't know the half
I would give it all up just to take one ride
How I used to kick it on the front porch
How I used to lay back an' smoke the weed
An' all the little basement party joints we'd do
Now I'm just missin' you
How I wish I wish that I could hold you now
Whoa I..
I wish that I could touch you now
Oh I..
I wish that I could talk to you be with you somehow
I know I know you're in a better place
Oh even though I can't see you face
Mm.. I know you're smiling
Down on me say'n everything's okay
See you again someday
Now ever since this money come it's been nothin' but stress
Sometimes I wish that I could just trade in my success
Y'all look at me an' say
Boy you've been blessed
But y'all don't see the inside of my unhappiness
An' I swear to G** it gets heavy like a ton
That's why you hear me shootin' this real s***
Off like a gun
Mm I wonder how my friends would treat me now
If I wasn't iced up with a Bentley and a house
That's why fake ass n****s get fake ass digits an'
Fake ass players get a real player hatin' them Honey
Love goes platinum an' y'all ass come around
But y'all didn't wanna raise the roof until my s*** gets goin' down
Oh I can't believe my ears an' what everybody's sayin'
Boy I'll tell you folks don't know the half
I would give it all up just to take one ride
How I used to hoop off in the tournament
How I used to club hop on weekends
The family called the morning of the tragic end
Damn my condolences I wish that I could hold
Oh I..
I wish that I could talk to you
Be with you somehow
Oh I know I know you're in a better place
Oh even though I can't see you face
Oh I know you're smiling down on me say'n everything's okay..
See you again someday
Voices in my head keep tellin' me to come to church
Said the Lord is the only way for you to stop the hurt
Dreamin' of windows black tinted like a hearse
An' wakin' up to life sometimes seems worst
An' all I ever wanted is to be a better man
An' I try to keep it real wit' my homies man
Don't need to save the world I don't understand
How did I become the leader of a billion men
Oh I can't believe my ears an' what everybody's sayin'
Boy I'll tell you folks don't know the half
I would give it all up just to take one ride
How I used to street perform on
Friday And how I'd go to church on Easter Sunday
Instead of y'all throwin' them stones at me
Somebody pray for me Whoa I Whoa I
Talk to you Still I know
In a better place
Oh I Smilin'
To all of my homies
Oh... Good now
Talk to you be with you
Somehow I know
Whoa...
See your face
Smilin' My mom at the crossroads
Oh my my my my my my my
Come on and break my head
Come on and break my head
