Happy Birthday (feat. Piper)

Happy birthday

So make a wish

Please accept my apologies, wonder what would have been

Would you have been a little angel or an angel of sin?

Tom-boy running 'round, hanging with all the guys

Or a little tough boy with beautiful brown eyes

I paid 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 fought for your life

Would you have been a little genius, in love with math?

Would you have played in your school clothes and made me mad?

Would you have been a little rapper like your papa the Piper?

Would you have made me quit smoking by finding one of my lighters?

I wonder 'bout your skin tone and shape of your nose

And the way you would've laughed and talked fast or slow

I think about it every year, so I picked up a pen

Happy birthday, I love you whoever you would've been

Happy birthday

What I thought was a dream

Make a wish

Was as real as it seemed

Happy birthday

What I thought was a dream

Make a wish

Was as real as it seemed

I made a mistake

I got a million excuses as to why you died

And other people got their own reasons for homicide

Who's to say it would've worked, and who's to say it wouldn't have

I was young and struggling but old enough to be a dad

The fear of being my father has never disappeared

I ponder it frequently while I'm sipping on my beer

My vision of a family was artificial and fake

So when it came time to create, I made a mistake

But now you got a little brother, maybe it's really you

Maybe you really forgave us knowing we was confused

Maybe, every time that he smiles, it's you proudly

Knowing that your father's doing the right thing now

I'll never tell a woman what to do with her body

But if she don't love children, then we can't party

I think about it every year, so I picked up a pen

Happy birthday, I love you whoever you would've been

Happy birthday

What I thought was a dream

Make a wish

Was as real as it seemed

Happy birthday

What 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 ending to the ending, never got to begin

Maybe one day we can 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 ending to the ending, never got to begin

Maybe one day we can meet face to face

In a place without time and space

Happy birthday

What I thought was a dream

Make a wish

Was as real as it seemed

Happy birthday

What I thought was a dream

Make a wish

Was as real as it seemed

I made a mistake