Broken Promise Lyrics

[ti:17 Broken Promise]

Intro

I remember larensin where you have your family house

Where we moved into

Coming from the east to the south

Where I first laid my hand in LAG

OS, thoughts of you make tears choke my chest

The early 80’s I was just a baby

But your face is still clear

Cus i used to see you on a daily

Coming back from school was cool

You taught me how to put up a fight

Even if beaten black or blue

George I feel you

Cus part of you was still with me

My favorite cousin remember the

First time you whipped me

You opened up a lesson for little kids

I was one of em

You did something different

You brought me just like all of em

Next thing I heard you was going to America

As a kid I couldn’t understand what was wrong with Africa

If I know what would happen

I would have held you back

Boy now you’re gone

And i cant get you back

You promised me

That you would always be here

You promised me

That you was gon take care

You promised me

That you would come back here

But now you’re gone

Now you’re nowhere near

You promised me

That you was gonna watch me grow

You promised me

That you was gon see me blow

You promised me

And death had to make you go

You promised me, you promised me

Now you’re gone

Remember when you fought that bus driver

Driver ****

You did what you had to do

You handled your biz

You scratched your face on the road

During the scuffle the struggle bloody

But you went through the trouble

That’s the kind of man you was

I respected you my better bros

I adored you and yours

A couple of years later you came back with gifts

F the presents all I cared about was your physical presence

Then you went back and I started to miss you

When I remembered the stuff you told me that happened to you

The next thing I heard you was dead

I heard of how you bled

I couldn’t get the pictures in my head

You was the first person close to me to die

I didn’t cry, all I ask was was why

One up for death cus his cold hands squeezed you

But make us even cus in my heart I still keep you

You promised me

That you would always be here

You promised me

That you was gon take care

You promised me

That you would come back here

But now you’re gone

Now you’re nowhere near

You promised me

That you was gonna watch me grow

You promised me

That you was gon see me blow

You promised me

And death had to make you go

You promised me, you promised me

Now you’re gone

Lots of times I asked myself why death had to take you

If it was meant to be

Then why did God create you

If it was only for him to take you again

You was a good start that had a terrible end

Sometimes it hurts so bad

I wish that I could do it all

Master of the whole earth

Power over all

So I could turn the hand of time

And bring you back

Breathe life into your longs

And watch you ball like sheck

You were my own super star

My own super hero

My personal thug

My own don chichio

I looked up to you cus the vibe you sent was good

You left at a time the hood was all good

Now its all messed up

Fences everywhere

Every house is like a prison

Every rich nigga is scared

One minute you’re chilling

The next minute you’re running from

Cops or rubbers or some fetching mother

You promised me

That you would always be here

You promised me

That you was gon take care

You promised me

That you would come back here

But now you’re gone

Now you’re nowhere near

You promised me

That you was gonna watch me grow

You promised me

That you was gon see me blow

You promised me

And death had to make you go

You promised me, you promised me

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