Happy Birthday...so make a wish
Please accept my apologies,
wonder what would have been
Would you've been a little angel
or an angel of sin?
Tom-boy running around,
hanging with all the guys.
Or a little tough boy
with beautiful brown eyes?
I payed for the murder
before they determined the sex
Choosing our life over your life
meant your death
And you never got a chance
to even open your eyes
Sometimes I wonder as a
fetus if you faught for your life?
Would you have been a
little genius in love with math?
Would you have played in
your schoolclothes and made me mad?
Would you have been a
little rapper like your papa da Piper?
Would you have made me
quit smokin' by finding one of my lighters?
I wonder about your skintone and
shape of your nose?
And the way you would have laughed and
talked fast or slow?
Think about it every year, so I picked up a pen
Happy birthday, love you whoever you
woulda been
Happy birthday...
All I thought was a dream (make a wish)
Was as real as it seemed (happy birthday)
All I thought was a dream (make a wish)
Was as real as it seemed
I made a mistake!
I've got a millon excuses to why you died
Bet the people got their own
reasons for homicide
Who's to say it woulda worked,
and who's to say it wouldn't have?
I was young and strugglin'
but old enough to be your dad
The fear of being a father
has never disappeared
Pondering frequently while
I'm zippin' on my beer
My vision of a family was
artificial and fake
So when it came time to
create I made a mistake
Now you've got a little brother
maybe he's really you?
Maybe you really forgave us
knowin' we was confused?
Maybe everytime that he smiles
it's you proudly knowin'
that your father's doin' the
right thing now?
I never tell a woman what to
do with her body
But if she don't love children
then we can't party
Think about it every year,
so I picked up a pen
Happy birthday, love you whoever
you woulda been
Happy birthday...
All I thought was a dream (make a wish)
Was as real as it seemed (happy birthday)
All I thought was a dream (yeah, make a wish)
Was as real as it seemed
I made a mistake!
And from the heavens to the
womb to the heavens again
From the endin' to the endin',
never got to begin
Maybe one day we could
meet face to face?
In a place without time
and space
Happy birthday...
From the heavens to the
womb to the heavens again
From the endin' to the endin',
never got to begin
Maybe one day we could meet
face to face?
In a place without time and space
Happy birthday...
All I thought was a dream (make a wish)
Was as real as it seemed (happy birthday)
All I thought was a dream (make a wish)
Was as real as it seemed
I made a mistake...!