Lupe Fiasco - Jonylah Forever lyrics

rate me

You live, you live, you live!

How about them bullets? they slow you up

You ain't really dying, we watched you grow up

At twelve months you took your first steps

Awkwardly across the kitchen floor, did your best

Your first breath that we can call words

On your father's lap, on November 21st

And they were, "live for me!" and he did for you,

Flipped a neutron, and stayed inside the crib for you!

And this commitment from your father

Imparted a deep sens of value you forever harbour.

We were all so proud as we seen you getting smarter

And the bond grow deep between the mother and the daughter,

Cause you are not a martyr!

You live, you live, you live!

...it was just a bad dream

At six you started reading whole books

At seven you knew how the brain looked

And can roughly described all the different regions

Can tell that we were sick and even knew the reasons.

The world wasn't at peace, gunfire every week

And bitch, you were hardly there, cause you was always leaving!

Field museums and planetarium aquarium

It all sounds special in the tank you were staring in.

And in those moments as a real girl,

You realized there was a bigger world!

Bigger than the South Side, bigger than Chicago

You were bigger still when .. on your cargo

And big ass woofers in ya car door

So you can wink like your daddy at the park eating sharks.

Went to King where you were teased for being smart

When you bumped into... at teaching art

You live forever!

...it was just a bad dream

Be that ever or never goodbye!

Be that ever or never goodbye!

Be that

At 16 is when you got your scholarship.

At 22 is when you got your doctorate

Even now is kinda hard to believe

But your father taught you to work hard and achieve!

And you complied, accepted by every medical school you applied

But the coolest thing

Is when they offered you that highly paying slot

You replied, "they need me in the hood!",

And that's when you reside!

Free clinic, nobody deny it

It's when you heard the shots and you ran outside

And saw a man in his van and a blue baby in his hands

Fading fast, but you knew she could survive.

Did everything you could to keep this girl alive

Stabilize until the ambulance arrived

And in that moment when you gave your help

I bet you didn't know that you saved yourself!

..open your eyes!

You live forever

God have mercy!