After I'm Gone - Living Legends

Yeah… ehem… we finally grown up now

Looking back from the halfway point

Looking forward too

Still doin' these songs you know… dedications

Goin' out to our children, all our nieces and nephews

Family members and our loved ones

Pressin' it on the plastic see how long it lasted

Forever and a day… look

You ever think about the sunrise and sunsets?

Just another day of planets spinnin' on its axis

Gravitational pulls the moon and the stars

The tides are afected and lives are connected

How bold we are?

As bold as love

But only strong as our weakest link push to shove

How many times we wasn’t trippen off of it just because

The game was on you see that same old song

We havin family reunions now that someone’s gone

I’m looking at what I’m doing like is something wrong

Can I better myself for strength and health?

And do the words that I say get played and someone felt?

Touched, do i think too much?

If I make my momma proud well is that just enough

She won’t land me a family with lots of stuff

I know that that’s on me so I don’t just emcee

I move in artforms music niftily

You could package me up and use it you’ll see

And when I’m done put fire to flame

Lift my ashes to the ocean and cry my name

After I’m gone

After the love after the pain

After the tears after the change

There’ll still be music and growth

There’ll still be power and hope

So feel me there’ll still be people who know

After my chapter is done so captured by sun rays mastered the one play

Always forget to run one way street’s a fork’s in the road middle ground I

Ended up with the glass that’s half full

Blessed is every footprint that I chose to lay

Yes it’s only right to say that I had my way

I could never complain using his name in vein

(has worked??) for me, then you

Takin' advantage of talent just to seek the truth

Besides the fact that I was galant with my silver steed and grip

And failed at my most important first relantionships

And wailed at the moon on shrooms feelin' doom then consumed

By my panoramic view of a ceramic world askew

I then cracked the glass with the closed fist of hate

And I tried to sit and wait in a meditative state

But this gypsy had a soul of a wanderin' king

With two broken legs and two giant wings

After the struggle after the fear

After the troubles after the dust is clear

There’ll still be fire and ice

There’ll still be death and life

After the child let his soul release

His body and his mind finally found his sleep

Those who loved him seen him dancin in the dreams they keep

And heaven’s never close to the devil’s heat

Though the fire burned deep within his essence

The presence remain in his childrens' frame

Stronger than his name man the game is blood flow

The best traits, the passion the gusto

Lost all his bad things mostly the lust for

Money and his problem the open and trust those

People that he loved he watched the dust flow

Ashes to mother earth is where they must go

Join with God envelope within the beautiful

Music ever singing the hymns

His family still feel him cause they singin to him

Good that he’s gone is how it’s seemin to him

Cause all the troubles in his family now that’s seemin to him

The sin in his soul now that’s seemin to them

The lineage he left helped his family to win

A chance for the happiness to finally begin

Legacy, photographs, memories

The best station me through my phonograph spin it please

Connecting dots all thoughts of a young man

What do we have here love and strong man

We’re all journeymen have been and will be

Dollar dirty nah I was earthy filthy

Show my people that way I hope they feel me

If I die today I got no regrets what is is still me

Minus a shell I’m in the wind in the trees

Legends to be told like mythology

And if all of these seas gon' wanna swallow you up

I’ll be right next to God here to follow through with what

I was called for broke the law for saved it all for

Cried my eyes and moved my jaw for

Call for my help and I’m there

If only through my spirit I’m gone but still here

After I’m gone…