[00:01.72]I wish, I wish, I wish
[00:03.70]To every city
[00:04.68]I wish, I wish, I wish
[00:06.46]Every hood
[00:06.99]
[00:07.50]I wish, I wish, I wish
[00:08.84]And every block
[00:09.56]
[00:10.46]Ghetto America
[00:11.34]
[00:12.82]Rollin' through the hood
[00:13.67]Just stopped by to say, what's up
[00:15.25]
[00:15.78]Came to let you know
[00:16.54]Your baby boy ain't doing so tough
[00:18.44]
[00:19.09]And even though you passed
[00:20.18]Going on four long years
[00:21.95]Still waking up late at night,
[00:23.59]Crying tears
[00:24.71]
[00:25.44]Just thinking about those days
[00:27.02]You used to talk to me
[00:28.64]Smilin', while I'm sippin'
[00:29.71]On this Hennesey
[00:30.70]
[00:31.48]And remember,
[00:32.17]We'd brag on how rich we would be
[00:34.68]To get up out this hood
[00:35.96]Was like a fantasy
[00:36.81]And now you hear my songs,
[00:38.06]The radio is bangin'
[00:39.77]Oh, I can't believe my ears
[00:41.09]And what everybody's sayin'
[00:42.98]
[00:43.72]And boy, I'll tell ya'll
[00:44.60]Folks don't know the half
[00:46.09]I would give it all up
[00:47.49]Just to take one ride
[00:49.04](With you)
[00:49.98]How I used to kick it
[00:51.19]On the front porch
[00:52.12](With you)
[00:52.74]And how I used to lay back
[00:54.23]And smoke ****
[00:54.86](With you)
[00:55.64]And all the little basement
[00:56.84]Party joints we'd do
[00:58.81]Now I'm just missing you
[01:00.82]How I wish
[01:01.87]I wish that I could hold you now (oh, I)
[01:04.96]I wish that I could touch you now (oh, I)
[01:07.78]I wish that I could talk to you
[01:09.62]
[01:10.17]Be with you somehow
[01:12.18]
[01:12.86]I know you're in a better place
[01:16.20]
[01:16.93]Even though I can't see your face
[01:19.09]
[01:19.99]I know you're smiling down on me
[01:22.08]Sayin' everything's okay
[01:24.99]
[01:28.14]And if I make it out this thug life
[01:29.95]I'll see you again someday
[01:31.49]
[01:32.76]I wish, I wish, I wish
[01:34.87]
[01:35.78]I wish, I wish, I wish
[01:38.00]Now ever since this money come
[01:39.11]Been nothing but stress
[01:40.15]
[01:40.87]Sometimes I wish I could
[01:42.06]Just trade in my success
[01:43.26]
[01:44.07]Y'all look at me and say,
[01:45.62]Boy you've been blessed
[01:47.05]But y'all don't see the inside
[01:48.49]Of my unhappiness
[01:49.59]
[01:50.12]Man, I swear this ****
[01:51.23]Gets heavy like a ton
[01:52.64]That's why you hear me shootin'
[01:53.86]This real **** off like a gun
[01:55.93]Hmm, I wonder how my friends
[01:57.48]Would treat me now
[01:58.90]If I wasn't iced up with a Bentley
[02:00.77]And a house
[02:01.69]That's why fake-ass ******
[02:03.09]Get fake-ass digits
[02:04.47]And fake-ass playas
[02:06.18]Get a real playa hatin' 'em
[02:08.33]'Honey Love' goes platinum
[02:09.68]And y'all ass come around
[02:11.22]But y'all don't wanna raise
[02:12.35]The roof until my **** is going down
[02:14.21]And now you hear my songs
[02:15.24]The radio is bangin'
[02:16.80]Oh, I can't believe my ears
[02:18.21]And what everybody's sayin'
[02:19.85]
[02:20.86]And boy, I'll tell ya'll
[02:21.85]Folks don't know the half
[02:23.23]I would give it all up
[02:24.53]Just to take one ride
[02:26.05](With you)
[02:27.04]How I used to hoop off
[02:28.45]In them tournaments
[02:29.20](With you)
[02:29.97]And how I used to club
[02:31.16]Hop on weekends
[02:31.96](With you)
[02:32.90]Your family called the morning
[02:34.22]Of the tragic end
[02:36.16]Damn, my condolences
[02:38.29]
[02:38.85]I wish that I could hold you now (oh)
[02:41.48]
[02:41.99]I wish that I could touch you now (oh)
[02:44.95]I wish that I could talk to you
[02:46.86]
[02:47.40]Be with you somehow
[02:49.13]
[02:49.90](Oh, I know yeah)
[02:51.03]I know you're in a better place (oh)
[02:54.00]Even though I can't see your face (oh)
[02:56.41]
[02:57.01]I know you're smiling down on me
[02:59.03]Sayin' everything's okay
[03:01.99]
[03:05.25]And if I make it out this thug life
[03:07.15]I'll see you again someday
[03:08.85]
[03:09.93]I wish, I wish, I wish
[03:11.94]
[03:12.95]I wish, I wish, I wish
[03:15.21]Voices in my head be telling me
[03:16.90]To come to church
[03:18.11]Saying, the Lord is the only way
[03:19.53]For you to stop the hurt
[03:21.15]Dreaming of windows,
[03:22.54]Black-tinted like a hurst
[03:24.42]When waking up to life,
[03:25.78]Sometimes it seems worst
[03:27.97]And all I ever wanted
[03:29.06]Is to be a better man
[03:31.20]And I try to keep it real
[03:32.65]With my homies man
[03:34.32]For me to save the world,
[03:35.74]I don't understand
[03:37.24]How did I become the leader
[03:38.58]Of a billion fans
[03:39.27]And now you hear my songs
[03:40.34]The radio is bangin'
[03:41.63]Oh, I can't believe my ears
[03:43.19]And what everybody's sayin'
[03:45.03]
[03:46.02]And boy, I tell you
[03:46.87]Folks don't know the half
[03:48.58]I would give it all up
[03:49.73]Just to take one ride
[03:50.94](With you)
[03:51.85]How I used to street perform on Friday
[03:54.15](With you)
[03:54.90]And how I'd go to church on Easter Sunday
[03:56.98](With you)
[03:57.78]Instead of y'all throwing them stones at me
[04:00.76]
[04:01.90]Somebody pray for me
[04:03.11]Oh, I wish that I could hold you now
[04:05.89](oh, I)
[04:07.01]I wish that I could touch you now (oh, I)
[04:10.12]I wish that I could talk to you
[04:11.66](talk to you)
[04:12.50]Be with you somehow
[04:13.98]
[04:14.67](Still I know)
[04:15.56]
[04:16.17]But I know you're in a better place
[04:18.00](In a better place)
[04:19.43]Even though I can't see your face (oh, I)
[04:22.19]I know you're smiling down on me (smilin')
[04:24.54]Saying everything's okay
[04:26.05]
[04:26.80]To all of my homies
[04:28.21]I wish that I could hold you now (oh)
[04:31.30]I wish that I could touch you now
[04:33.06](right now)
[04:34.19]I wish that I could talk to you
[04:35.77](talk to you)
[04:36.74]Be with you (be with you)
[04:38.09]Somehow
[04:38.27]
[04:38.93](Somehow I know)
[04:40.56]But I know you're in a better place (oh)
[04:43.23]Even though I can't see your face
[04:45.15](See your face)
[04:46.58]I know you're smiling down on me
[04:48.17](smilin')
[04:48.57]Saying everything's okay
[04:50.47]
[04:51.05]My mom, I'm at the crossroads
[04:52.95]I wish that I could hold you now
[04:54.45](of my my, my, my, life)
[04:57.42]
[04:58.79]I wish that I could talk to you
[05:00.15]Come on and braid my hair
[05:01.68]
[05:03.39]Come on and braid my hair
[05:04.98]
[05:06.39]Come on and braid my hair
[05:08.35]
[05:09.21]Come on and braid my hair
[05:11.47]
[05:12.40]Come on and braid my hair,
[05:14.74]My hair
[05:15.88]
[05:16.80]I wish that I could hold you now
[05:18.63]
[05:19.85]I wish that I could touch you now
[05:21.58]
[05:22.92]I wish that I could talk to you
[05:24.67]
[05:25.35]Be with you
[05:26.48]Somehow