[Intro]

This for you (uh) there ain't one day that go by

where I don't think about you (yeah)

This for my mother, Rest In Peace (uh)

To you and yours (yeah) Ride with me (uh)

Come on



[Verse 1]

I know you watching me, guiding me

I know from up there it's like you watching 'Menace to Society'

Listen you was thirty-two I was only nine

But I've learned so much with so little time

Now I'm surrounded by the best of my kind

We put it all together, couldn't waist your pearls on Swine ma

You taught me better

You can't protect me or expect me to not struggle n fight

Cause see death is a part of life

What I wouldn't give for 1 more day wit you

One last embrace n face to face wit you

Explain everything that made me what I am a grown man

From the ground up with my own hands

Will I forget you? Neva

Down right angry sometimes that we ain't here together

You can feel your roots and see how strong we are

Who would've thought we could get this far, damn I miss you



[Chorus: Andre Wilson]

Even though I know it's been tough

I can't stress enough no matter what - mama I love you

You've always been there by my side

You've taught the wrong from the right - mama I love you



[Verse 2]

Yesterday was you fifty-ninth birthday

Time flew missing you in the worst way

I still feel the same pain since the first day

You left through death on God's request

I can't complain through the year's mama I've been stressed

Through them bullets and the bad times I've been blessed

For the times that I fail but I tried my best

Able to do for my loved one's, real success 

Your the source of my strength I was blessed with your gifts

Your insights, your wisdom, your penmanship

Fun n games, I'm doing thangs, I know you wouldn't agree with

What I drink, what I smoke, who I be with

You made sure I got some love when there wasn't none

Opened up my heart showed the world where I'm coming from

Your little grandson is just like your little boy

Mama what you built here no man can ever destroy, your bundle of joy

I've been through so much

I lose touch and sometimes I feel that life sucks

My women try to get close I push here away

She wanna talk I just sit there with nothing to say

Feel me its all the pain I contain on the inside

You in the right place but left me at the wrong time

Use to cook, clean, and sing me to sleep

Now I only go to bed with my heat, damn I miss you



[Chorus]



[Verse 3]

The school of hard knocks where I learned life's lessons

With not enough answers and too many questions

When you had me you gave birth to a soldier

Now I'm much older now the world much colder

Our lives in the hands of politicians that don't care

We ponds in the game biological warfare

The family's so spread out n disconnected

Trying to hold things together put my soul on records

It's hard; you know your daughter had a baby too

A beautiful baby girl just another little piece of you

Another branch we can add to the family tree

Responsibility bringing out the man in me

You ain't a man if your not taking care of home

Raise and protect my own, until they full-grown

No matter how much these streets try to change me

I'm never 'gon forget how you raised me

I Love You, Forever.



[Chorus]



[Ad Libs]

Yeah, all the mothers, all the daughters, yeah, come on

Sun, Moon, Earth, yeah, this for you, uh, Damn, Damn I Miss You