[00:26.29]At my brother's Janazah
[00:28.19]
[00:28.99]Tears stained sunglassses
[00:31.46]A Salat with no bows
[00:33.76]Pallbearer carry you to the car now
[00:36.69]Chilly day  Mosque on 96 and 3rd
[00:40.15]New York City way  me and Jay never left my side
[00:45.33]Rest like that picture with your pride
[00:47.63]Who look just like
[00:50.22]Now the city looks less bright
[00:53.46]Brooklyn looking less special
[00:55.09]Don't carry the same weight
[00:56.89]As when you were on this level
[00:58.43]You: work in progress from 40 projects  God bless
[01:06.37]An inspiration and a king
[01:08.25]They won't know what I mean but this one 'bout to spring
[01:12.10]Protect it with every feather on the wings
[01:14.55]So even when it hurts  you'll never feel a thing
[01:16.92]Said it's a cold cold war
[01:19.79]Ain't nobody wins like the government
[01:23.17]In the U S S R
[01:26.34]Cause this is all for shares
[01:27.95]Nobody cares
[01:29.68]Who you think you are
[01:32.73]And you can fight it  but there's no defense
[01:36.12]For what things are
[01:39.73]
[01:40.66]Baby grab a jacket
[01:42.34]It's a cold  cold
[01:43.53]Let me clarify the chorus
[01:44.78]And what my cold war is
[01:46.87]
[01:47.81]Cause the complexity is enormous
[01:50.51]Using one of my greatest losses with eyes like faucets
[01:54.57]To reinforce every single word that I talk with
[01:58.49]Something about losing things  human beings
[02:00.55]That reduces things to their most elementary
[02:04.66]Find yourself where you never meant to be
[02:08.24]With the energy of memories
[02:10.27]That's the soul force of what's behind killing me
[02:14.57]Finding pleasure in the pains
[02:16.81]Like finding desert in the rain
[02:18.98]Twisted: how this world can drive you masochistic
[02:21.19]
[02:22.37]Question if I'm over it
[02:24.11]Or if I'm numb because I'm closureless
[02:26.47]Or my closure's that we all gotta go and shit
[02:29.56]Rendered emotionless but moving at the speed of running over it
[02:33.01]Still happy that I opened it
[02:34.12]Said it's a cold cold war
[02:36.71]Ain't nobody wins like the government
[02:39.94]In the U S S R
[02:41.68]
[02:43.09]Cause this is all for shares
[02:44.72]Nobody cares
[02:46.38]Who you think you are
[02:49.41]And you can fight it  but there's no defense
[02:52.71]For what things are
[02:57.40]Baby grab a jacket
[02:58.89]It's a cold  cold
[03:00.31]In the studio writing these words
[03:02.05]One after another
[03:02.90]In memorial of my brother
[03:04.70]As you listen to the album with
[03:06.81]Nothing on the cover
[03:07.91]I imagine that he hovers
[03:09.67]In the back of his chair
[03:11.23]Floating right there in the air
[03:12.84]Nodding his head to the music  I slightly lose it
[03:16.54]Ask why do I put myself through this
[03:19.79]Crack a smile  look up at the file
[03:22.79]The waveforms on the screen of me tryna tell you what I mean
[03:26.96]But I feel that it's all lost
[03:28.59]Or maybe that it's all gotta cross
[03:31.38]Happy with his dedicated song
[03:33.96]But now he's all gone
[03:35.52]But he was never there  cause
[03:37.24]He was everywhere  nowhere and down here
[03:40.45]Maybe on that judgement day  rise up
[03:43.20]We'll both open our eyes up  climb up
[03:46.59]Hoping God forgives us for our tendencies
[03:49.33]Wipes away our cool young histories
[03:50.63]Said it's a cold cold war
[03:53.49]Ain't nobody wins like the government
[03:56.67]In the U S S R
[03:58.66]
[03:59.83]Cause this is all for shares
[04:01.51]Nobody cares
[04:03.13]Who you think you are
[04:06.22]And you can fight it
[04:07.83]But there's no defense
[04:09.52]For what things are
[04:14.34]Baby grab a jacket
[04:15.70]It's a cold  cold
[04:17.78]
[04:19.59]Ride around  you know what I'm saying
[04:22.38]All over the world right  I mean  everywhere
[04:27.51]I mean we just disappear and just come back
[04:30.81]I feel like we can just put him anywhere
[04:32.55]
[04:33.62]He'd find his way back home  y'know'm saying
[04:38.79]Another random thing's that consequence to me
[04:41.56]But maybe to you  not much
[04:46.50]But with that said  the reason behind me
[04:53.94]Why I do what I does  love
[05:01.30]
[05:02.98]Just riding around bumping that  uh
[05:05.15]Either Jay or Nas  or me
[05:10.13]
[05:11.48]I used to tell him like "yeah you alright"
[05:16.36]But you ain't f**king with my man
[05:18.43]
[05:21.59]It was always like that  so
[05:27.04]
[05:28.02]Drop a little for you  let it bump
[05:31.79]
[05:33.84]This that Esco music  it's that Esco music
[05:42.83]
[05:46.25]Bumping with my Esco music  that raw
[05:52.64]
[05:56.18]See you on the other side  As-Salamu Alaykum