[2Pac]

(hahhh, hahaha) Hehehe, word

It's like all we got left - teardrops and closed caskets

(throw it up fool, hey ni**a, haha)

Tell me how you feel homey



(Yeah, it took a week to go down)

You recollects and see how crazy it sounds

The whole town's on a mission, adolescents (penitentary bound)

(Now introducin Young Trigga)

Since birth, eyes set on gettin bigger

Just anotha wild-a*s ni**a

(But he was fiendin for Precious) WHAT?

(But Precious was a ghetto girl)

Couldn't be no sex without that gold Lexus

(But Lil' Trigga was heartbroken, he had to get his papers)

Seein visions of people smokin and ni**az catchin vapors

Got his man from around the corner (we'll call him Lil' Mo)

(Been in so many reform schools they had to let him go)

(Here's where the plot thickens)

They got a plot to make a profit with they glocks spittin

(They call the squad, hittin blocks with they guns blowin)

(Somebody's gonna die tonight)

Still no one's knowin, so they kept goin

Catchin dealers comin out they cars (will they survive?)

(Two semi-automatic nines, them ni**az died)

(Plus nobody in the hood cries, it's like they celebrate

to death and wish they could die) So peep the lesson

But wait a minute back to Precious

She's snortin dope in the back seat of Trigg's Lexus

TEARDROPS AND CLOSED CASKETS



[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Teardrops and closed caskets

[Lawz] TEARDROPS AND CLOSED CASKETS

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Teardrops and closed caskets



(Don't let these ghetto streets get you, Precious)

(was the victim, from a dime to a nickel)

Hopin God's blessings stick with ya

Picture the neighborhood kingpin, who's gettin bigger

Familiar face, but a man now, it's Lil' Trigga

Now Lil' Mo was a soldier to the fullest

Down for his homies, always the first to spit bullets

(All he wanted was to be a thug)

Never pictured his truest homeboy would fall in love

(Here's where it gets ya)

Now Precious is pregnant, Lil' Trigga is happy

He wants to marry her now (not knowin he ain't the daddy)

But Precious was lonely while Lil' Trigga was makin dough

She's slippin in secret places and gettin with Lil' Mo

The neighborhood's buzzin, now people are talkin

Lil' Trigga's gettin pictures of the both of 'em walkin

(Hand in hand, couldn't understand)

How his baby's mama could disapear with another man

(and his best friend)

Now jealousy's dangerous, and if you don't believe me

Then watch the way that this story ends and maybe you'll see

There ain't no heroes or villains, ain't no pleasure in killin

Just the smoke from the cap peelin a man with no feelings

TEARDROPS AND CLOSED CASKETS



[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Teardrops and closed caskets

Bury you dead and look ahead

A man with no feelings

[Lawz] TEARDROPS AND CLOSED CASKETS

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Teardrops and closed caskets

That's all we got left, that's all



[Outlawz]

Now with the problems of poverty

and the tricks to these tales

How many people'll die

how many'll live to tell

Although best friends before

Lil' Trigga and Mo

(They in an all out war, over a fiend they ain't know)

Behind the curtains their privacy lust is already laid down

The results is the same with different names and it turns out



[2Pac]

Y'all know how it is, same old thing in the same old town

Lil' Trigg got his nose wide open on this one trick, now he's played out

Think it's Lil' Mo (was plottin plans on gettin bigger)

(Precious was his way to put his hands on Lil' Trigga)

All the while let's look at Precious

Too dumb to see what's goin down (too doped up to ask questions)

Used to be comrades (but now we blast on sight)

What could be so bad (God, will we last tonight?)

From misdemeanors to felonies, small-time to sellin ki's

I can't believe the s**t they tellin me

They open fire, three bodies drop, so call the cops

(Precious, Lil' Mo and Trigg)

TEARDROPS AND CLOSED CASKETS



[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Aiy QBIII in this motherf**ker

Teardrops and closed caskets

We dedicate this to all the fallen comrades

(that's right)

All the homies that didn't make it to see this day

(rest in peace)

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Yaknahmean? I know it's hard out there, heheh

with teardrops and closed caskets

It's like that's all we got to look forward to these days

Murders, brothers dyin, funerals

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] s**t, it's like I done ran out of suits homey

I done ran out of tears

Know we gon' have to do somethin y'all

We gon' have to do somethin

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Cause I know all these mothers is tired of seein the same thing

(rest in peace)

Teardrops and closed caskets

I send this out to M'thulu Geronimo

and to, all the fallen comrades, all the soldiers

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

(to the homey Boonie, rest in peace ni**a)

[Pac] All the homies that fell, all the homies

May God bless your families

May you always live in the motherf**kin heart

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] In a thug ni**az heart forever

(that's right)

Rest in peace ni**a

May your enemies be deceased, dead on the streets

We can't have peace til the ni**az get a piece

[Nate] Will I..