How Could You Leave Us

[00:00.31] Lyric Input By

[00:05.36] 'Ocky Aldi'

[00:08.28] How Could You Leave Us

[00:09.87] How could you leave us so unexpected?

[00:16.24] We waited, we waited

[00:21.82] For you but you just left us

[00:27.67] We needed you, I needed you

[00:33.78] Yo, I don't know what it's like to be addicted to pills

[00:36.70] But I do know what it's like to be a witness, it kills

[00:39.35] Mama told me she love me, I'm thinking this isn't real

[00:42.01] I think of you when I get a whiff of that cigarette smell, yeah

[00:46.26] Welcome to the bottom of hell

[00:47.85] They say pain is a prison, let me out of my cell

[00:50.77] You say you proud of me, but you don't know me that well

[00:53.70] Sit in my room, tears running down my face and I yell

[00:56.35] Into my pillowcases, say you coming to get us

[00:59.28] Then call a minute later just to tell us you not, I'm humiliated

[01:02.99] I'm in a room with a parent that I barely know

[01:05.38] Some lady in the corner watching us, while she taking notes

[01:08.57] I don't get it mom, don't you want to watch your babies grow?

[01:11.49] I guess pills are more important, all you have to say is "no"

[01:14.42] But you won't do it, will you? You gon' keep popping 'til those pills kill you

[01:17.87] I know you gone but I can still feel you

[01:23.98] Why would you leave us?

[01:26.37] Why would you leave us?

[01:29.82] How could you leave us here?

[01:34.08] How could you leave us?

[01:36.20] Why would you leave us? Oh

[01:42.57] Hey

[01:45.23] I got this picture in my room and it kills me

[01:47.88] But I don't need a picture of my mom, I need the real thing

[01:50.54] Now a relationship is something we won't ever have

[01:53.21] Why do I feel like I lost something that I never had?

[01:56.38] You shoulda been there when I graduated

[01:58.78] Told me you love me and congratulations

[02:00.90] Instead you left us at the window waiting

[02:03.02] Where you at mom? We're too young to understand, where you at huh?

[02:07.28] Yeah, I know them drugs got you held captive

[02:10.20] I can see it in your eyes, they got your mind captured

[02:12.86] Some say it's fun to get the high but I am not laughing

[02:15.78] And what you don't realise and what you not grasping

[02:18.70] That I was nothing but a kid who couldn't understand

[02:21.35] I ain't gon' say that I forgive you 'cause it hasn't happened

[02:24.54] I thought that maybe I feel better as time passes

[02:27.46] If you really cared for me, then where you at then?

[02:32.78] Why would you leave us?

[02:34.90] Why would you leave us?

[02:38.35] How could you leave us here?

[02:42.87] How would you leave us?

[02:44.73] Why would you leave us? Oh

[02:50.57] Hey

[02:53.50] Our last conversation, you and I sat in the living room

[02:56.15] Talking 'bout my music and I brought you something to listen to

[02:59.07] You started crying, telling me this isn't you

[03:02.00] A couple weeks later, guess you were singing a different tune

[03:04.92] You took them pills for the last time, didn't you?

[03:07.59] They took you from us once, guess they came back to finish you

[03:10.51] Crying my eyes out in the studio is difficult

[03:13.17] Music is the only place that I can go to speak to you

[03:16.10] It took me everything inside of me to not scream at your funeral

[03:19.02] Sitting in my chair, that person talking was pitiful

[03:21.69] I wish you were here mama but every time I picture you

[03:24.60] All I feel is pain, I hate the way I remember you

[03:27.53] They found you on the floor, I could tell that you felt hollow

[03:30.45] Gave everything you had plus your life to them pill bottles

[03:33.37] You gave everything you had plus your life to them pill bottles

[03:36.29] Don't know if you hear me or not, but if you still watching, why?

[03:41.35] Why would you leave us?

[03:43.21] Why would you leave us?

[03:46.93] How could you leave us here?

[03:51.18] How would you leave us?

[03:53.31] Why would you leave us? Oh

[03:59.15] Hey

[04:07.92] Sometimes I think about like

[04:13.50] Sometimes I think about things like, you know

[04:17.49] When I have kids, I'm like

[04:26.27] You won't be there, you know?

[04:28.65] You won't be there for any of that

[04:39.28] And I'll never get to see you again

[04:43.79] Sometimes I wish I would've just called you

[04:46.72] I wish I would've just picked up the phone, wish you were here

[04:52.29] I mean you should've been there for us, you should have been here

[04:58.13] Them pills got you, right?

[05:01.59] Them pills got you, right?

[05:10.36] I wish you were here