Watching the music video on YouTube sheds some valuable insight into this song. The opening scene features a CBS news clip covering a shooting that occurred, setting the mood for the song.
Lil Poppa was a victim of a Florida shooting that left 2 of his friends dead. As the song starts, you hear him...
[Intro]
Gone, gone
Gone, gone
Gone, gone
I'm gone, gone
[Verse 1]
At night I wonder, "Why them bullets ain't hit me?"
Why the fuck they miss me?
Rather be gone take me out my motherfuckin' misery
Walkin' alone still havin' visions of 'em killin' me
Fragments all in my arm but I don't need the doctor healin' me
Still ain't no fear in me, close my eyes and I see CP
Traumatized, tears in my eyes, I ain't gettin' sleep
Detectives try to frame me, interrogation, they blame me
Wish I could take it back to the day that my mama named me
Never underestimate the competition
Screaming fuck the opposition
Still disappointed, how they catch us slippin'?
Wish I woulda listened, it's too late for all that
Don't call my phone with no bad news, I can't take all that
What's gon' happen behind this shit? I can't say all that
They tellin' me to pray, I just pray my dawg shake back
Ask the Lord to keep me covered so much love for my brothers
Ayy, Baby Tay, they gone pay and I put that on my mother
[Chorus]
Purple heart for them soldiers, niggas gone feel us
Gotta make it out before they come and kill us
Lion hearted, I'm a soldier, gotta change the way I'm livin'
Mama stressin' and I know just how she feelin'
But I was raised to be a soldier, ain't lettin' up
Niggas better second guess before they fuck with us
You shaken back, boy, you a soldier
Ayy, Baby Tay, I love you
NLMB, I'll never leave my brothers
[Verse 2]
All I hear is shots so I duck, what the fuck?
I guess it's just my goddamn luck
Feel like I'm stuck, can't shed a tear
I'm more angry than anything
Tell me can you feel my pain?
Chevy arm in a slang, he got hit tryna cover me
I know he got love for me, forever he stuck with me
Let 'em talk, they know what's up with me
Think they gone be smokin' me, nigga, you ain't rollin' me
No, it ain't no R.I.P., my niggas gone die with me
Sleepless counts, lesson learned, tables turn, bridges burn
Can't be in a rush to die, lil' nigga, just wait yo' turn
I got three angels in the sky that died from gun fire
They watchin' over us, now a lot of tears I can't cry
[Chorus]
Purple heart for them soldiers, niggas gone feel us
Gotta make it out before they come and kill us
Lion hearted, I'm a soldier, gotta change the way I'm livin'
Mama stressin' and I know just how she feelin'
But I was raised to be a soldier, ain't lettin' up
Niggas better second guess before they fuck with us
You shaken back, boy, you a soldier
Ayy, Baby Tay, I love you
NLMB, I'll never leave my brothers
[Outro]
Lion hearted, I'm a soldier
Ayy, it's purple hearts for them soldier
Ayy, I was raised to be a soldier
Purple heart for them soldiers
Gone, gone
I'm gone, gone
Purple Hearts was written by Lil Poppa.
Lil Poppa released Purple Hearts on Sat Sep 08 2018.