[sped up sample]

"Ay-aiyyyy, if only for one

 Nah, niiight, niiight, niiight, niiiiiight

 Ahh one night, if only for one... niiiiiiiiight"


[Chorus One: Z-Ro] + [Trae]

[Z-Ro]

I wish I could have my loved ones back

Cause I'd love to have my loved ones back (if only for one niiiight)

[Trae]

We don't have to feel it like that

Cause I hate to see the pain comin back (if only for one niiiight)

[Z-Ro]

Nobody get killed on the block

No reason to pack the steel on the block (if only for one niiiight)

[Trae]

We can get to make it to the top

And see my dawgs make it out the cell block (if only for one niiiight)


[Chorus Two: Z-Ro singing]

Maintaininnnnn, there'll be no mo' complaininnnnn

It's alright, if only for one niiiight

Maintaininnnnn, tryin to keep it from raininnnnn

It's alright


[Trae]

I swear, deep down I be sinkin

The same things over and over they never get better

I miss my niggaz, rain fallin

9 times out of 10 it don't miss my nigga

Damn, I hope this state of mind'll never leave again

I wanna see my nigga Screw get to breathe again

And wanna see Dinky and my nigga Donny break free again

On the block, never thinkin 'bout Plix

Twenty-fo' years of mine I've been blitzed

Dawg, don't you get it twisted

Cause 19 years of those have been stress

Never thought that I'd see this time

And it ain't no way that I'ma let it get by

Ain't no lie, deep down inside

Just to hold it close it wanna make me cry

No mo' drama, likin no laws

No mo' jail, no more collect calls

No mo' hate from these roach-ass niggaz

and my dawgs on the block'll ball 'til we fall

Plus Peewee woulda never got locked

Plus Greedo woulda never got shot

Plus Mello woulda still been here

With a white Kangol about to body rock the pen

Misty, then the rest of the click like

Full speed then runnin without a red light

Whole life I'll be one of a kind

Go deep in the wind I promise I got my head right

And I hate it's gon' be like this

I wonder why everything come to me like this

And if only fo' one night I finally get my smile

Lord, I don't wanna leave like this


[Chorus One] + [Chorus Two]


[Z-Ro]

It'll be nice to have Emo and Jody and LL back

My nigga Best and his big brother E. Roy Love

Dem people ain't never comin back

But if only for one night

My nigga could make a decision he shoulda made

Make it where the situation turned out another way

And ain't a day go by

I don't wish I didn't have to miss my momma

This ain't livin my nigga this just drama

If only for the night when the storm'll live calmer

Cause seem like they wanna give a lifetime sentence

to a nigga with a pistol and a pound of marijuana

Wish it was legal to be in public wit'cha eyes red

I've seen a lot of B.I. cases go fed

Got pulled over, no seatbelt on the shoulder

Let to a 70 year stand and coda

If only for the dead nigga

Didn't have to wait to make a safe walk to the sto'

Just to get his niggaz and a six-pack {?}

But there never been a cakewalk to the sto'

Fuck around and see the head concussion

If the hood decide you gotta fake walk to the sto'

They fully fronted to everybody with animosity

Bitches'll take 'em 'fore they walk to the sto'

A nigga from the Southside, and a nigga from the Northside

And a nigga from the Eastside

Could all get along with each other, like we knew each other mother

No reason to wanna take our own lives

By losin a son, losin a daughter, losin a child

I'm battered by life, too rude to smile

I liked it better when I used to smile

If only fo' one mo' night


[Chorus One] + [Chorus Two]