Artist: Rittz f/ Candice Freeman
Album:  Last Call
Song:   So Long
Typed by: Nickolye16@aol.com 

[Intro: Rittz]
We've gathered here today, to pay our last respects
and bid a sad but fond farewell
We are also here, so that in our own way
we will celebrate, and honor your life

[Rittz]
When I first met you it was back in '95
when I used to battle other rappers at the football game
In the crowd you would always stand out
8th grader big as hell but you ain't never look your age
In 9th grade you were killin seniors on the field
People talkin 'bout the records that they'd watch you break
Popular as hell, everybody knew Charles
Bondin with you on the night we slapboxed and blazed
We was up in Breckenridge Creste, we were just kids
Smokin blunts in front of your apartment place
You introduced me to my best friend who was your best friend
I remember when he called that day
He told me that they shot you in the back, you was winnin in a fight
And ever since it ain't been quite the same
So much personality and talent
Why they had to take your life away?

[Chorus: Rittz] + (Candice Freeman)
I'm screamin hold on...
Here one day and the next they gone
But they way too young to have to tell 'em so long
(So long, so long, so long!) So loooong
Have to tell 'em so long

[Rittz]
You was a new kid at school from New Jersey
Used to rock the Timberland boots with the camo suit
Used to go inside of kids' pockets in the parking lot before school
They were scared of you
Me and you were cool, we had mutual friends
Bumpin DJ Clue up in RJ's crib
You had a reputation for playin no games
Hittin licks and makin people take off all they shit
As time went on you became a good friend
Let your guard down, we would smoke and talk 'bout rap
When Slick was in jail you would check up on me
Told me call you if I had a problem cause you got my back
When I was outta work sellin herb you would front me QP's
Chill and listen to the verse I dropped
Me and you was laughin, sayin it's ironic
that my mama was your nurse when you first got shot
in your shoulder but you took it like a soldier
Had somebody watchin over you for you to take a shotgun blast
We were growin older, I was broke and always workin
All the homies in the circle sorta lost contact
Until a person came into my job
I thought I overheard 'em sayin that somebody murdered One-Arm Black
I ain't believe it 'til my homie told me that you're gone
and you won't come back

[Chorus]

[Rittz]
It's kinda hard for me to write, I've been missin you from the day
that we moved back in summer '88
When we come to visit you we always wanna stay
You would wake us up to a plate of scrambled eggs
You taught me how to cook, taught us how to fish
You and Dave hopin that the Steelers win the game
We would all laugh, we knew when they screwed up a play
Cause you would start yellin at the screen
Taught me to enjoy simple things, it would mean the world
Sittin on the porch with you when you feed the squirrels
Whistle with the birds, full from the meal that you made us
Chill, watch Vanna on the Wheel
Come and spend Christmas with you every year
Summers too when I'm home wishin I was there
next to you and Ma-maw sittin in your chair
I could never fit into the slippers that you wear
Tell a joke here and there
You ain't really say much, givin your opinion or a comment
You drove a tank in the second World War, was in combat
You ain't ever brag about your time in
You had open heart surgery when you were in your 60's
Never thought that you would see 90
Saw us go through phases, you would never judge us
All you did was love us blindly
When finally I had a day off right before a show in Pittsburgh
I was happy I could spend it with you
The rest of the family come and visit you a lot
Last five years, I don't really get to
Mom said you were really sick too
Had a big bruise on you cause you fell in the shower
And now when you wanna talk about all the plans
What Ma-maw s'posed to do without you?
Havin trouble gettin in and out your, chair
Noddin out in the middle of a sentence while you're talkin
I could tell that you're frail and you fought death off for so long
Now you finally feel exhausted
Time to go, I don't really wanna leave
Said "I love you Pap" like it's gonna be my last
Five days later I was told that you passed
And you finally let go of your grasp
to hold on

[Chorus: Rittz] + (Candice Freeman)
Hold on...
Still we mourn, can't believe you're gone
But your spirit lives on and on, you pushed for so long
(So long, so long, so long!) So loooong
Have to tell him so long