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Key: F#m Tuning: Standard 🎸 Intro: C D Em D C D Em Bm 🎸 Verse : C D Ayo Jam, this is a letter to you Em It's been a while, but it's been hard for me to get in the booth D C Since we lost spoke I become a father of two D Em Tryna live life with a smile Bm but that's been harder to do C 'Cause all I wanna do is talk about you D But these tears won't Em let me talk about you
We should've known that
D
we been lost without you
C D
Therapy sessions diggin' deep into depression
Em
I got a life with the blessings
Bm
But this just breaks my freakin' heart
C
At your birthday
D
couldn't even crack a smile
Em
I just cried and left the party
D
need to see you in while
C
Headed to the mural
D
some jerk wings and plantain
Em
'Cause that is the way that me
Bm
and you would celebrate it
C
I never knew you'd touch the stuff
D
'cause you'd always bad me up
Em
If you saw me more than drunk
D
you always hated what it does
C
Before Lyra I just stopped
I haven't even wanted one
Em
I can't get over this,
it's freaked, man
Bm
I wished I'd known
C
And yo, we cried for
nine nights at your family home
D Em
Laid you to rest in the ground,
but without a stone
D C
You know it hits me most at
moments now when I'm alone
D Em
Every morning I remember that
Bm
you're really gone
🎸 Chorus:
C
'Cause it's been a long night and I cry
D Em
'cause I miss my brother
D C
You know for life, got your sis and mother
D
And day and night, it still hits that
Em
you're gone
Bm C
And right now I'm spillin' tears in my cup
D Em
You left the world before you met Jupiter
Wish you'd have known
D C
you would be a godfather
D Em
You would've loved lovin' my little girls
Bm
If not for them
C
I'd be down with the world
🎸 Verse :
D
Was there two hours after you passed
Em
Speedin' east to west
D
silent in the back of the car
C
Was at your mum's, there all week
D
tryin' to make sense but I can't
Em
And although it's been a year
Bm
I still feel the pain in my heart
C
'Cause you were there from the start
D
The day we met, yeah
I moved in and
Em
we were never apart
D
People assumed that we were lovers
C
but we're brothers in arms
D
Symbiotic bond of love and gave
Em Bm
each other a chance, my God, ah
N.C. D
Freak sake, lately I've been cryin'
Em
so much my lungs ache
D C
Teardrops all over my shirt like
blood stains
D Em
And I know to heal a heart,
it must break
Bm
but I'm done prayin'
C
They gave me a shovel at your burial and
D Em
Watchin' you get lowered is somethin'
I can't forget at all
D C
And people find and stop me in the
street and say it's terrible
D Em
But they don't know you like
Bm
I knew you and they never will
C
No one saw the nights turn into day
D
when we were battle rappin'
Em
No one saw the belly laugh
D
and every train to somewhere random
C
No one saw the holidays, and then
D
our first experience clubbing
Em
No one knew the things you did for me
Bm
and never asked for nothing
C
No one read the
conversations of the moves that
D
we were planning
Em
No one knew about the way you felt the
D
scene left you abandoned
C
No one knew about your fears
D
'cause you would hide them with a smile
Em
No one knew when people took an inch
Bm
you would give 'em a mile
C
'Cause that was always Jamal
D
SB to the crowd
Em
They used to shout your networth,
but they don't mention it now
D C
They hear about your good deeds
and infectious smile
D Em
A golden heart that's still remembered is
Bm
worth more than a crown
C
I promised sixty-four bars and now
D
I keep it to Tanisha
Em
Mummy
Isaac, the gang, but
D
I just wish that you'd seen it
C
I can't accept that you're gone
D
or the grief that I'm feeling
Em
I prayed to God for answers, but
Bm
He still won't give me a reason
C
I think about you every day
D
nothing will take this pain away
Em
I'll keep your legacy amazing, mate
D C
The conversations at your grave's
D
the only way to be close
N.C.
I know you'll greet me with a
smile on the day that I go
🎸 Chorus:
C
'Cause it's been a long night and
I cry
D Em
'cause I miss my brother
D C
You know for life, got your sis and mother
You know I cry 'cause
D Em
I miss my brother
Bm C D Em
My brother was SB.TV
🎸 Outro:
D C D Em Bm
C D Em D C
Chords used in song:
C
D
Em
Bm
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Chords: F#m, C, D, Em, Bm, A