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The hardest part 'bout leavin' home is leavin' home

Which constitutes my mother and my sisters

Even mister Jameson and his kids and my cats

My little cousins growin' up so fast

Life flashes before my eyes

I'm like, "Why is this there? What is that?"

So much is different when I get back

To my crib, but the one thing that is constant

Is Marilyn, Mellanie, Yolanda Marie, and Leti

Lalo, Mikey, and Jaime, my family

That is home, and it's so tough

To leave them for three whole months

At a time, but meanwhile, I'll spit a rhyme

To hold me over 'til I return to my

Home is where I want to be

But family is it, and we're split

One-hundred ninety-three miles apart

And it's so hard to do

Every time I have to go to school

But it, it must be done, so

Home is where I want to be

But family is it, and we're split

One-hundred ninety-three miles apart

And it's so hard to do

I only talk to my mother twice

In a two-weeks' span of time

'Cause it hurts me

Every line that I say only reminds

Me of where I'm not, who not with

And I visit less

I get depressed when I leave home after Winter Break

I'm filled with pain: homesickness

That's why I stay on campus all through the term

Benefits me to unlearn

What I left

It cools the burn

To not think of my family when we're separate

It sucks when I go to Chicago, but not home

'Cause it floods the gates of my memory

And it taints it

Jeremy

(Is) Oh so close but, oh so far

I don't know why I don't own a car

It would make it so much easier

To get from here, there, anywhere when I yearn

Home is where I want to be

But family is it, and we're split

One-hundred ninety-three miles apart

And it's so hard to do

When I'm not at home, I'm blinded

To all these problems, these issues

That my cousins are going through

When they misuse all types of drugs

Little junior's getting faded

There's hate in his soul

He's been suffering so long

He prolongs his smoke

I just woke up

Don't know what's goin' on at home

And my older one's an addict now

Takin' this and that and wonderin' how

Far she can go to expand her mind

Experimental or mentally broke?

Either way, messin' wit' drugs ain't a joke

I just hope you are both safe

It's okay to seek help

If you need to, then tell

Somebody what you're goin' through, and hell

Just know that I love you both, wish you well

I just wish I can be there, truly knew what you felt

Home is where I want to be

But family is it, and we're split

One-hundred ninety-three miles apart

And it's so hard to do

Being at Knox keeps me up

Thinking about the time I lost with my family

Priscilla's daughter doesn't even know her uncle Jeremy

"Where's he been all this time?"

Getting my upper education

I'm ashamed when these questions asked

It's my task that she learns exactly who I am

When I return to my fam

In my hands, I will grasp Baby Elva

Forever shelter all of my family under this roof

This the proof that I give to you