When You're Gone Lyrics

Wait til you're dead 'til they sing your song

Because they love you more when you're gone

Say it ain't right when they did you wrong

Because they love you more when you're gone

Now everybody wanna shed they tears

Never said nothin', when you dead they cheer

On the stairway to Heaven, Lord it won't be long

Because they love you more when you're gone

This shit is crazy, we set aflame our nation for some strangers

Hit the streets with the anger but see, barely know our neighbors

Barely know they lives, go out get the paper, sayin' "Hi"

Don't really care 'til they die - and then everything it changes

See your picture everywhere, everybody got a story

Lie about thoughts and prayers, when you gone they say they sorry

When you was alive they never looked you in your eye

Suspectin' they really despised but lovin more on your demise

Shit is cray, such is life, when it's dark, see the light

When you die, give them life, that is irony and it's rightfully

So disturbing, when you lived, wasn't worthy

I don't want no flowers when I die

Save them tears -- ain't gotta cry

I need mine while I'm alive

Wait til you're dead 'til they sing your song

Because they love you more when you're gone

Say it ain't right when they did you wrong

Because they love you more when you're gone

Now everybody wanna shed they tears

Never said nothin', when you dead they cheer

On the stairway to Heaven, Lord it won't be long

Because they love you more when you're gone

This for Breonna Taylor and George Floyd - they was anonymous

Cops killed 'em - made 'em famous: death was their accomplishment

And countless others paid the price, achieving fame that cost their life

And in their name we causin' strife in major cities every night

Thinkin' bout the things that we did in people's memory

Better to die a martyr we invoke against our enemies

Even when you die people feedin' off your energy

So when they say your name it gon echo for a century

We waited too long to protect our own, Vanessa Guillen died all alone

They way that they did her was wrong - and that was before the hammer

So why are we so enamored on this idea of revenge

Why did we wait 'til she died - just wait 'til it happens again

Wait til you're dead 'til they sing your song

Because they love you more when you're gone

Say it ain't right when they did you wrong

Because they love you more when you're gone

Now everybody wanna shed they tears

Never said nothin', when you dead they cheer

On the stairway to Heaven, Lord it won't be long

Because they love you more when you're gone