[Intro: Shyheim]
It's 2002, wow,
Time goes by, real fast, you know
It's like, it's real
I don't think it's ever gon' stop

[Break: Shyheim {Jackson 5 sample}]
{Can't believe I stayed away too long}
Yeah, I, I was in the streets
{Did I leave your mind while I was gone?}
Word, was y'all thinkin' 'bout the kid?
{It's not my thing trying to get back}
Nah, I don't wanna get even it's all good
{It's time that I tell you where I'm at}
Let me tell you, I'ma show you

[Shyheim]
IF we are the world
IF we are the future
Then WHY everybody forget about the children
Ten to heat ten, he in front of the buildin'
Askin' crackheads, 'what you want in the buildin'?'
By the time he 16 somebody'll kill him
And God'll give him his wings to fly and heal him
His mother went crazy since they killed her baby
Push a cart around, she a bag lady
Talked to herself, kinda off with herself
But y'all dont even hear when she screamin' for help
Y'all jus' walk on by, ignore her cry
Nobody even noticed in the hood when she died
In my hood it's like a black genocide
C'mon black people, let's get up on the ride
C'mon black people, let's have a good time
C'mon black people, everybody come outside

[Break: Shyheim {Jackson 5 sample}]
{Can't believe I stayed away too long}
They ain't wanna drop my album
{Did I leave your mind while I was gone?}
They was tryna keep me in the dug out
{It's not my thing trying to get back}
But now I'm outta the ground kid
{It's time that I tell you where I'm at}
And I'ma live, for real

[Shyheim]
It's the same book, different chapter
For Shyheim, alpha cappa alpha
"Manchild", It's "After the Laughter"
And you're crying, 'cause you're hurt now
It's been a long time comin', between the thuggin'
Bloods and the cuttin', cases got me runnin'
I'm top gunnin', one hundred percent
I'm thinkin', 'damn, where all that wasted time went?'
Lingerin' around like the scent of dead fish
The chicks, The Bricks, the OT trips
Iced out wrist, wide-body six
I lost focus, and fell for the hocus pocus
I'm everything I never wanted to be
I once was blind, but now I see
I mastered the 120 degree
The Twin Towers collapsed, the streets full of debris

[Break: Shyheim {Jackson 5 sample}]
{Can't believe I stayed away too long}
I'm from Shaolin, New York
{Did I leave your mind while I was gone?}
And I don't eat pork
{It's not my thing trying to get back}
I'ma keep it thorough in every borough
{It's time that I tell you where I'm at}
Y'all know that, y'all see it, y'all better believe it too

[Shyheim]
I'm "On the Run" and I'm homeless
My Aunty said I can't stay at her crib, she got her own kids
Mommy still up to her old tricks
My pops aint my pops, I ain't his kid
For 23 years, what a lie I've lived
My second mother, she real real sick
"Fuck the World", it make me real real sick
I will forgive but I can't forget
I grew up over night, so fast, so quick
It still goes "On & On", I still won't quit
I'm goin' hard baby, "Picture Me Rollin'" in my brand new Mercedes
I ain't stoppin', now that I'm poppin'
Everybody gossipin', I can't breathe, please I need oxygen
I love my girl like Turbo sausages
And the Brock Brothers for buildin' up my confidence

[Break: Shyheim {Jackson 5 sample}]
And that's real
{Can't believe I stayed away too long}
It's all good
{Did I leave your mind while I was gone?}
I ain't even mad neither
{It's not my thing trying to get back}
Y'all can keep that
I'm crawlin' up now
{It's time that I tell you where I'm at}
Y'all gone see it

[Outro: Shyheim]
Word, Rest In Peace y'all
Ya see, ya still here
Word