Came to talk to you for a minute
 You know
 I miss you
 But I love you
 Ain't nobody done for me what you done for me  Ma
 You know
 So I'ma do this one here for you

 Rest in peace
 Your son

 It woulda been the greatest thing in the world to see
 All the possibilities  you made em real for me
 In '73 opened me to life itself
 Guard my health and went for delf but needed no one else
 Allah himself'll only know the reason you're gone
 And forever I'ma feel a little pain and mourn
 (Life goes on) Now I'm blessed, so I raise each morn
 Still I ask every night you help me face the dawn
 Pray alone inside a stone-cold confusion and weep
 But only your touch can bring me to peace
 I can keep a little something of you with me till I reach the end
 Till then, let me ask you again, how you been?

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 This is cause I'm thinkin of you
 My love for you will always be true
 You know I'll never forget you for life
 Think of you forever

 Sittin recallin how you caught me, how you broke my fall
 Heard you scream off in terrors, heard my name you called
 All of the lessons you taught me, how this life is war
 How to hold till I be sure that I can go for more
 Saw me enduring the pain and goin from poor to fame
 But livin with more to gain is makin me more insane
 It's a strain, I could tell you, you already know
 Still I'ma live to tellin you so
 And I'm sure you know the way that you was handlin was passed to me
 Askin nobody for nothin, so don't ask for me
 Look and see how you raised a little nigga to man
 It was all just a part of the plan
 Daze back as I gaze back lookin at the fact that you left
 Funny how I keep hearin footsteps
 I keep a little something of you with me till I reach the end
 Till then, let me ask you again, how you been?

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 If I could leave you off with somethin, it would have to be this
 You know I'm gettin through these obstacles, you will be missed
 Left a kiss on the forehead, hold through a touch
 Now I leave that in the streets from rollin up in a dutch
 Ask the Lord to bless the soul of a child if He may
 I can only hope that we unite and see you one day
 And playback after playback, it wasn't fair
 But still and all I never say that, remember here
 You got a place inside a nigga, where you end, I begin
 Till then, let me tell you again, how you been?

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 Do you know I'm thinking of you, Mama
 Don't you know I think about you all the time

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 I love you, Mommy
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