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Overdose
- You know man sometimes the people we love don't love themselves
- And we csn try and help them and sometimes they get better
- But this isn't one of those times
- 00:24 Verse 1
- I wish it wasn't this fast never thought this soon you could be gone
- but you hit rock bottom and crashed before I knew what was wrong
- your mom had asked if it were true and what was going on
- ignorant i sat by in silence
- ignore it, yeah just deny it
- Cuz it's better than being accused and hollered at for my suspicion
- yeah your innocent get off your back, im just sketching
- about aluminum thats been missing from the bottom rack in the kitchen
- out of the bathroom i can stand listen from where the hallways I can hear that shit crinkling
- I look back at all the times that you lied to deny your sobriety
- You'd be nodding off while driving still trying to hide it from me
- So I wasn't shocked at all or surprised whan the hospital called said you died from od
- Why didn't we have that intervention when your mother said?
- We had the evidence! I met your new friends
- Fred, Blake and Jimmy
- your face got so skinny,
- I'd make you a plate but you'd never eat any
- when I looked in to your eyes, saw a different person
- Them I didnt recognize and that shits still hurting
- Now I've realized, and i know this for certain
- If you were willing to go through all that
- Pain for the smack
- You were really gone way before that
- (Hook)
- So sad so sad
- Gone and lost the best.thing I ever had
- And you know, you know that I'm sorry
- At the lowest, I need you most
- You would come and you would come overdose
- And you know, you know that I'm sorry
- And now I love you so
- Talking crap
- You called my help cold distant words,
- but i always kept it 100 like you know that i would
- you asked for my help, I told you i got you, your good
- but you didnt take it my dog
- and now look, where are you at, your gone.
- you left me, your sister &your mom
- i always put you back on your feet
- showed the facts you couldn't see
- But this time I fuckin couldn't KP!
- man I told you about T
- how you shoulda stayed away
- when you'd come and complain
- Like every fuckin day
- So whether it was the H or a blade
- The outcome was the same
- disregard the bitches, that was part of the creed
- But you were hard headed and wouldnt hear it from me
- You could not listen even though it was said on repeat
- Followed your direction, cuz "big bros got the lead"
- Then how come im the only one in this car?
- On my way back to the rez
- on the phone with your ma
- She's crying and stressed
- Worried about funeral costs so I wrote her a check
- Told her it won't be long till I'm there
- then I'll help with the rest
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