Happy Birthday...so make a wish



[Verse 1:]

Please accept my apologies, wonder what would have been

Would you've been a little angel or an angel of sin?

Tom-boy running around, hanging with all the guys.

Or a little tough boy with beautiful brown eyes?

I payed for the murder before they determined the sex

Choosing our life over your life meant your death

And you never got a chance to even open your eyes

Sometimes I wonder as a fetus if you faught for your life?

Would you have been a little genius in love with math?

Would you have played in your schoolclothes and made me mad?

Would you have been a little rapper like your papa da Piper?

Would you have made me quit smokin' by finding one of my lighters?

I wonder about your skintone and shape of your nose?

And the way you would have laughed and talked fast or slow?

Think about it every year, so I picked up a pen

Happy birthday, love you whoever you woulda been

Happy birthday...



[Chorus:]

All I thought was a dream (make a wish)

Was as real as it seemed (happy birthday)

All I thought was a dream (make a wish)

Was as real as it seemed



I made a mistake!



[Verse 2:]

I've got a millon excuses to why you died

Bet the people got their own reasons for homicide

Who's to say it woulda worked, and who's to say it wouldn't have?

I was young and strugglin' but old enough to be your dad

The fear of being a father has never disappeared

Pondering frequently while I'm zippin' on my beer

My vision of a family was artificial and fake

So when it came time to create I made a mistake

Now you've got a little brother maybe he's really you?

Maybe you really forgave us knowin' we was confused?

Maybe everytime that he smiles it's you proudly knowin'

that your father's doin' the right thing now?

I never tell a woman what to do with her body

But if she don't love children then we can't party

Think about it every year, so I picked up a pen

Happy birthday, love you whoever you woulda been

Happy birthday...



[Chorus:]

All I thought was a dream (make a wish)

Was as real as it seemed (happy birthday)

All I thought was a dream (yeah, make a wish)

Was as real as it seemed



I made a mistake!



And from the heavens to the womb to the heavens again

From the endin' to the endin', never got to begin

Maybe one day we could meet face to face?

In a place without time and space

Happy birthday...



From the heavens to the womb to the heavens again

From the endin' to the endin', never got to begin

Maybe one day we could meet face to face?

In a place without time and space

Happy birthday...



[Chorus:]

All I thought was a dream (make a wish)

Was as real as it seemed (happy birthday)

All I thought was a dream (make a wish)

Was as real as it seemed



I made a mistake...!