Lyrics
I wish I could live forever
The repetition emphasizes a strong desire for immortality or a lasting impact.
I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
-We won't do what they tell us
Resistance against societal expectations, using pills as a coping mechanism to endure hardship, and the hope for an enduring legacy even in death.
Pill popping just to feel better
-Times getting, hard we try keep our head up
-If we die, we gon' live forever
-We go where they won't let us
-We don't do what they tell us
-Pill popping just to feel better
-If we die, we gon' live forever
-I said the kids gonna do what they wanna do
Expressing concern for the youth facing challenges, violence, and a lack of guidance. The City of God reference highlights a dangerous environment.
When it get hot out
-Hope they make it through summer school
-'Cause they get cold-blooded when no 5-0 coming
-And when they come around
-Don't nobody know nothing
-It don't feel safe
-Cold case, love lost
-Where the shorties got guns, call it the City of God
-And they ain't taught how to aim
-Watch they friend get killed right there in front of your face
-So how the fuck would you feel?
-And so I pop pain pills until I feel better
-And I'm hustling, now we got that phone bill
-And I got me a job but no it won't cut it
-So I step on that work because the dope will
-All we know is and skyscrapers
-Yeah it's concrete
-Where the kids at? Let me go speak to 'em
-But if you've never seen any mountains or the stars
-How you ever 'sposed to know that's the thing you should reach for?
-I'm sayin' though, I wish I could live forever
Reiteration of the desire for immortality amid struggles, highlighting the use of pills to cope with difficulties.
I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
-We won't do what they tell us
-Pill popping just to feel better
-Times getting hard we try keep our head up
-If we die, we gon' live forever
-We won't do what they tell us
-Pill popping just to feel better
-Times getting hard we try keep our head up
-If we die, we gon' live forever
-We never die that's why my motto still alive
Reflecting on mortality, honoring ancestors, and addressing societal issues such as violence, substance abuse, and the struggle for success.
Like Aaliyah's spirit I told you one and a million times
-This is a dream, the one I used to fantasize
-So I'm looking at me from heaven
-Through my grandma's eyes
-And I know that she be proud
-So you hear me screaming loud
-"I'm on a billboard just so you could see me now!"
-If she's in the clouds, why pour my drink on the ground
-So I pour it up for you, you want Henn' or a Crown?
-Chi-Town ambulances don't come around
-When shorties' brains blown out
-You want me to dumb it down?
-That's why we get high, roll trees and Backwoods
-It's hard to know you can when you raised off canned goods
-All we know is U.S.D.A checks and Save-A-Lot
-Never had money so we had to save a lot
-But how you gonna tell the kids
-They capable to rewrite pop culture
-When all they had was pills to pop?
-I wish I could live forever
Final repetition of the longing for eternal life, expressing a wish for a lasting impact beyond the present.
I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
-I wish I could live forever
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