Army Of One - December 15th

I've got to learn to handle you becoming a memory, remember me?
You died we put you up on the Christmas tree
Your embers blown away but yo you aren't gone officially
Because there'll never be a day where you aren't part of my history
I almost crashed the whip the day I found out
Round about six or maybe later at the towns mouth I drowned out
Everything around me and I felt a piece die
Because I told you if I knew just what to do then that's a lie
I never saw you enough, sure I saw you and stuff
But that was years ago when I was barely tall as a shrub
When I got older I got colder. so I got off your shoulders
And left you back in time to only stay where the cold is
I can't get you back now, you won't meet my kids
Great grandad but only for a month and a bit
I know our final conversation was lit, that's consolation
'Cause a month later homie that's it, you hit the station, uh
(And they'll never you know you, you'll just be a name to them)
Your funeral procession, with nana in tears
You should have been the one to hit way longer than eighty years
And I was too scared to get up and said something
Even though I want them to know that you meant something to me
We found footage of you rescuing people in '63
Found footage of you resting with my sister and me
Found pictures of you spending time with the family
We all know that we'll be gone but we never plan to be
You handed me an opportunity
Although you never asked it
I hope that I'm the one you wished to carry your casket
You weren't heavy by the end but I gripped so tight
I guess that cancer in the end was like your Kryptonite
So now these stanzas are a way for me to sit those nights through
And think about the ways that I could never be like you
We had some standup people in our family
Now it's only me attracted to my own gravity
Damned to be reclused from the tree with no excuses to see
And man we'll never speak again until our funerals will be
I can't believe it takes that for us to stay together
Back in '03 all we ever did was play together
But I guess that's how it goes when you grow
Time is moving slowly for days and then it goes
I really wanna proceed but I already know
I'm doing this again in five years, ten at most
Cherish your people while they're around
'Cause one day they'll never be able to make a sound
To tell you that they love you back or what they think about your raps
But time I think I'm out of that so now I give the flowers back
Ian had the power to keep the Tribbles together
Even though the link is gone I vow we won't be severed
Your name is carried on through my younger bro forever
And everyone who knows you can say the know a legend
So thank you for the show, reverend
It's time to go, bless it
Word up to everyone who came to see this progressin'
I got one final thing to say to you, it might sound shitty
But you're the only one who really got to Leave The City, uh

Written by:
Daniel Tribble

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