Xzibit

[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