[00:00.00]I Wish - Deja Vu
[00:02.37]I wish i wish i wish
[00:04.01]To every city
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[00:05.33]I wish i wish i wish
[00:06.92]Every hood
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[00:08.32]I wish i wish i wish
[00:09.57]And every block
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[00:10.84]Ghetto america
[00:11.46]I wish i wish i wish
[00:13.55]Rollin through the hood
[00:14.67]Just stopped by to say what's up
[00:16.55]And let you know
[00:17.41]Your baby boy ain't doing so tough
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[00:19.77]And even though you passed
[00:21.14]Going on four long years
[00:22.85]Still waking up late at night crying tears
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[00:26.07]Just thinking about those days
[00:27.50]You used to talk to me
[00:29.00]Smilin while i'm sippin on this hennessey
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[00:32.12]And remember we bragged on how rich we would be
[00:35.39]To get up out this hood was like a fantasy
[00:37.60]And now you hear my songs the radio is bangin
[00:40.23]Oh i can't believe my ears
[00:41.95]And what everybody's sayin
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[00:44.12]And boy i'll tell you folks don't know the half
[00:47.03]I would give it all up just to take one ride
[00:49.95]With you
[00:50.65]How i used to kick it on the front porch
[00:53.03]With you
[00:53.69]And how i used to lay back and smoke w**d
[00:55.54]With you
[00:56.67]And all the little basement party joints we'd do
[00:59.71]Now i'm just missing you
[01:01.46]How i wish
[01:02.30]I wish that i could hold you now
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[01:05.62]I wish that i could touch you now
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[01:08.75]I wish that i could talk to you
[01:10.87]Be with you somehow
[01:13.76]I know i know you're in a better place
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[01:17.61]Even though i can't see your face
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[01:20.59]I know you're smiling down on me
[01:22.67]Saying everything's okay
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[01:28.89]And if i make it out this thug life
[01:30.80]I'll see you again someday
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[01:33.46]I wish i wish i wish
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[01:36.42]I wish i wish i wish
[01:38.63]Now ever since this money come
[01:39.87]It's been nothing but stress
[01:41.60]Sometimes i wish that i could just trade in my success
[01:44.78]Y'all look at me and say boy you've been blessed
[01:47.58]But y'all don't see the inside of my unhappiness
[01:50.78]Man i swear this sh*t gets heavy like a ton
[01:53.53]That's why you hear me shootin this real sh*t off like a gun
[01:56.95]Hmm i wonder how my friends would treat me now
[01:59.71]If i wasn't iced up with a bentley and a house
[02:02.44]That's why fake a** niggas get fake a** digits
[02:05.86]And fake a** playas get a real playa hatin em
[02:08.80]Honey love goes platinum and y'all a** come around
[02:11.91]But y'all don't want to raise the roof
[02:13.47]Until my sh*t is going down
[02:14.98]And now you hear my songs the radio is bangin
[02:17.56]Oh i can't believe my ears
[02:19.10]And what everybody's sayin
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[02:21.32]Boy i'll tell you folks don't know the half
[02:23.90]I would give it all up just to take one ride
[02:26.79]With you
[02:27.70]How i used to hoop off in them tournaments
[02:30.01]With you
[02:30.69]And how i used to club hop on weekends
[02:32.93]With you
[02:33.59]Your family called the morning of the tragic end
[02:36.71]Damn my condolences
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[02:39.69]I wish that i could hold you now
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[02:42.66]I wish that i could touch you now
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[02:45.86]I wish that i could talk to you
[02:47.62]
[02:48.18]Be with you somehow
[02:50.61]I know i know you're in a better place
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[02:54.71]Even though i can't see your face
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[02:57.60]I know you're smiling down on me
[02:59.87]Saying everything's okay
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[03:05.92]And if i make it out this thug life
[03:07.86]I'll see you again someday
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[03:10.54]I wish i wish i wish
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[03:13.43]I wish i wish i wish
[03:15.89]Voices in my head be telling me to come to church
[03:18.68]Said the lord is the only way for you to stop the hurt
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[03:22.01]Dreaming of windows black tinted like a hearse
[03:24.97]When waking up to life sometimes seems worst
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[03:28.56]And all i ever wanted is to be a better man
[03:31.76]And i try to keep it real with my homies now
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[03:34.98]For me to save the world i don't understand
[03:37.78]How did i become the leader of a billion men
[03:39.76]And now you hear my songs the radio is bangin
[03:42.39]Oh i can't believe my ears
[03:44.17]And what everybody's sayin
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[03:46.45]Boy i'll tell you folks don't know the half
[03:49.03]I would give it all up just to take one ride
[03:51.71]With you
[03:52.52]How i used to street perform on friday
[03:54.78]With you
[03:55.52]And how i used to go to church on easter sunday
[03:57.83]With you
[03:58.48]Standing here throwing them songs at me
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[04:02.58]Somebody pray for me
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[04:04.73]I wish that i could hold you now
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[04:07.89]I wish that i could touch you now
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[04:10.78]I wish that i could talk to you talk to you
[04:13.02]Be with you somehow
[04:15.38]I know i know you're in a better place in a better place
[04:19.92]Even though i can't see your face
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[04:22.89]I know you're smiling down on me
[04:24.62]Saying everything's okay
[04:27.51]This only home me
[04:28.96]I wish that i could hold you now
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[04:32.06]I wish that i could touch you now touch you now
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[04:35.03]I wish that i could talk to you talk to you
[04:37.60]Be with you be with you somehow somehow
[04:40.64]I know i know you're in a better place
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[04:43.93]Even though i can't see your face see your face
[04:47.53]I know you're smiling down on me smiling
[04:49.36]Saying everything's okay
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[04:53.27]I wish that i could hold you now
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[04:56.62]I wish that i could touch you now
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[04:59.36]I wish that i could talk to you
[05:01.10]Come on
[05:01.71]Be with you somehow
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[05:05.42]I know you're in a better place
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[05:08.62]Even though i can't see your face
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[05:11.15]I know you're smiling down on me
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[05:14.19]Saying everything's okay
[05:15.85]Come on wish my eys
[05:17.81]I wish that i could hold you now