Round Irving High School

[Verse 1: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor]
Marijuana joints make circles
Hand to hand like a collection played
Brother to brother, brother to brother
How the urban animal bleats
Shoulder bump, shoulder kissing
Mouth hiss, hissing, when they meet
Palms slapping, lank when days back, back, back into numbness
When they don't, don't, don't
Give a damn about no one
Nothing shakes you, my son
They say in New York City
Children carry broken glass under their fingernails
Box cutters in their teeth
You enter tempering with the words
And even when a deceitful wind blows
Messing up your tightly bеaded afro curls
Not, not, not another sterеotypic brother with a 40 in his hand
You ignite the riddle
Phife was the blues, hip-hop, and hot jazz

[Interlude: Angela Winbush]
Haha, Bajan girl in the house, Angela Winbush

[Chorus: Angela Winbush]
You're my angel
It's so hard to say goodbye
'Cause I love you
So I'll see you on the other side, yeah (Other side, other side)
Fly, fly, angel, hmm
I will always hold you close, yeah
You're my soul
Yes, I'll see you on the other side, yeah (Other side, other side)
Brother to brother, son to mother
So I'll see you on the other side, yeah
Brother to brother, son to mother, ooh
See you on the other side, yeah

[Verse 2: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor]
And I'd rather listen to you than James Brown
'Cause you be real loud, Black, and proud
Carrying your love way down far so that only I could see
And I love that sly smile
Just like I loved your daddy's
Your hand holding flowers, not guns
And everything, everything, everything about you
Makes me proud to call you mine
Microphone has been checked
One, I love you, Mom

[Bridge: Angela Winbush]
Woah, I'll, woah, I'll
See you on the other side, yeah

[Outro]
Like, like
Go ahead, like what?
Huh, like, like that
How did— how did it sound like that?
Like what, honey?
Like, um
It, you, it said, it said it was me and you
I heard you (You did?), and me
But it didn't sound like me, though
How come it didn't sound like you?
Huh?
I thought it sounded like you
And it was funny
What?
It was funny when they were—
When I was talking on the, uh, um
I was talking on it
I was—
Is everything coming out?
Yeah, no, I did