Yesterday

[Verse 1]
I can see it all just as clear as day, it's like yesterday
Me and my homies playin' hoopball on milk crates
We had fresh fades, listenin' to Daddy Kane
We're on the block gang bendin' classes yesterday
But now I'm stressed today, my friends got took away
Some of them locked, but most of them ain't here today
Though we never separate all I got is memories
A few flicks that reflects some better days
I can hear my mama say don't rush to get grown
But she couldn't answer why my niggas died and they're gone
So now I ride through the blocks that we've been through
See the young niggas into things we was into
Circlin' the hood, see my life through a window
Seems like that I can feel their spirits when the wind blows
All my niggas is gone, so I'm here pourin' liquor out for 'em
It's not just a song

[Chorus: Sample]
I know I can't bring back yesterday

[Verse 2]
Dear God, is my niggas with you? Then please bless 'em for me
If Curtis is there, give him a message for me
Let him know we ain't forgive him and we're missing him
And 'til this day I remember bein' on Clifton with him
We was just kids livin' ghetto life
Ridin' up and down the block on our pedal bikes
The day you died, I swear I couldn't sleep at night
I had to tell myself that you was just sleep, aight?
This is for the friends that I ever had
Every argument and fight that we ever had
The times we ain't speak and I got you mad
I apologize now, I never got the chance
May the Lord grant you wings, homie
'Cause in my dreams I can hear y'all speak to me
Starin' at the names on the wall
Wonderin' when I'ma be a name on the wall, I miss y'all all

[Chorus: Sample]
I know I can't bring back yesterday

[Verse 3]
Even though y'all gone, life moves on, my niggas
I'm doin' music, puttin' life in songs, my niggas
Your boy is poppin', so you know it's on, my niggas
I just signed to Sylvia alone, my niggas
Damn, wishin' y'all can see me now
I took a life story, put it on CD now
I'm on video, radio and TV now
Who'd think that this would ever be me now
I was caught up in the thug shit, influenced by the drug shit
Every time I look, my niggas dyin' over dumb shit
Lord, don't let the devil take all us
Please tell me that you got a place for all us
Reminiscin', wishin' I could live life backwards
Don't wanna look inside another one of them caskets
I'm up nights cryin', just me and my Henny bottle
Wishin' I can make it past tomorrow, damn

[Chorus: Sample]
I know I can't bring back yesterday