In a trance reminicing bout the soldiers slain
 Fighting wars in the brain trying to maintain
 Hoping mama won't have to feel the pain
 Looking at a closed casket or a picture frame
 Even shorties that you banged won't forget your name
 Still feel strange how times do change
 We doing our thing and in our minds you remain
 As I uncap a 5th of Henny for my soldiers that's a memory
 Thinking 'bout the fun times we had together
 Blazin' 'till the sunshine
 Drinkin' the cheap wine
 I know I never find a ? of the same kind
 But at the same time, I'm constantly writin' eulogies
 For my big homey locs and my loco g's
 Since '73 it seems death followed me to my man ?Tyshan Wells?
 Rest in Peace
 Chorus
 Oh why oh why oh why
 It's always the good ones that have to die
 Oh why oh why oh why
 Bob Marley die, ?Jacob Miller? die
 (repeat)
 Another day another burial
 Got you wondering 'bout the day when he bury you
 Tear drops stain the wally's that you rockin'
 On the block candles burn guns popin'
 I just came from the cemetery where my dog was buried
 Drop some buds in the earth to grow in they memory
 Thinkin' 'bout the fun times we had as fam
 Remembering the beef we got into but never ran
 I seen a kid get ate up by his own man one time
 Hid behind a car now look and duck and bust a ?
 On some Harlem Nights script
 But this some real life shit
 Heard his scull split when you seen the slug hit
 I watched the vultures swarmin'
 Prayin' on his garments
 They stay robbin' dead men cuz they don't give 'em problems
 Heard the good die young be it by God or gun
 Paint my mural on the wall sayin' my job was done
 I shed tears when I hear news from my peers
 That my nigga Shawn Crady was no longer here
 Had me mad at my girl ready to take it to the world
 Drinkin' liquor 'till I'm damn near 'bout to 'url
 Got a jewel from my dog locked up in jail
 Told me son is in the essence resting
 All is well
 While you still here: accomplish your deads
 Cuz you never know when it's your time to leave
 Repeat chorus several times