Hearse Cadillac - Willie D

This song right here is for my mama

It’s the hardest song I ever wrote in my life

I must have cried a million tears

I wasn’t going to write it at first but

I figured if I could do a song recognizing everything else

It’s only right to write about the woman who gave me life

So this is dedicated to my mama and all the other mama’s that aren’t here today

Straight from the heart, straight from the heart

I got a call in the waiting room from the nurse

Telling me to come upstairs cause my mamma’s worse

I was at my baby’s bedside in a flash

But the look on their faces told me she passed

And everything went blank, I couldn’t think

I couldn’t believe even though she wasn’t breathin'

And the life support machine was turned off

And the tubes removed from her nose and mouth

I started tripping and my step father walks in

And states, let her go son she’s in a better place

She ain’t suffering no more, let her go I won’t

I should feel good for her but I don’t

Cause she didn’t deserve to go like that G

I wonder why the good Lord didn’t take me

But instead, I was picking up the telephone

Calling up sisters and brothers telling them mama gone

Drove a hearse, hearse Cadillac

Crowd of people gathered 'round dressed in black

Drove the hearse, hearse Cadillac

It had my precious mother in the back

Ever since you left here things done changed

Christmas, New Years and Thanksgiving ain’t the same

Without your button smile and sister?

And everybody missed you at the family reunion

Especially me, I tried to play strong

Looked around didn’t see you, couldn’t stay long

Cause there’s tears in my eyes from your death

And if I’m going to cry I’mma cry by myself

It hurts me to drive to your grave sight

And visit on your birthday, but it’s only right

I can’t believe that your name is on the stone

Buried in the ground, when mother’s day roll around

Now that you’re gone I realise

How much pain and misery you went through because of me

Going to jail, raising hell getting kicked

Out of school for fights and keeping you up late at night

When you had to go to work the next morning

So I could have food to eat and shoes on my feet

And a place to stay but being young and dumb

I couldn’t understand it so I took it for granted

I had a wedding and you missed it boo

My little baby girl blew a kiss at you

She never got to see her granny

But I told her but your spirit and if she call your name you can hear it

Drove the hearse, hearse Cadillac

Crowd of people gathered 'round dressed in black

Drove the hearse, hearse Cadillac

It had my precious mother in the back

Be good to your momma while you still got her

Hug her and kiss her cause when she gone you’re gonna miss her

I wish I could have went first

Cause words can’t express the pain that I felt when I saw the hearse

Drive off with my momma inside

Taking her for a last ride

I nearly died, cause that’s how I felt boss

Putting the gun to my head and blowing the mother fucker off

But she would have wanted me to be strong

Though teared up, not?

up, and lift my chin up

She would have told me get your money, keep making moves

And take care of your nieces and your nephews

Mama you’re gone, it’s hard being without you

It ain’t a day that goes by I don’t think about you

Everybody said count your blessings

Well, but they don’t know how I feel

Drove the hearse, hearse Cadillac

Crowd of people gathered 'round dressed in black

Drove the hearse, hearse Cadillac

It had my precious mother in the back

There it is

I remember the day the lord took you away

It was yesterday, whole world collapsed

It was like all the ??

and the resentment that I felt for you

When you treated me bad didn’t even matter

You having problems with your momma, you got issues?

Y’all talk it out, call her go visit

Do something right now cause tomorrow ain’t promised

It won’t be the same when momma gone, nobody like momma, nobody