Time Goes By (feat. Hydroponiks & Anika)

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Rest in peace Grandmaster Roc Raida

Grandmaster Roc Raida

J Dilla by ten

We miss you

Writer's block, sick of grippin' on this damn pencil

Messin' with this man's menta, I need to take a break

I got simple symptoms of a man, gentle

Stressing 'cause my fam' miss you, I need to see your face

On the Grand Central, navigation telling' me to drive slow

Thinkin' about all of the places I roam and people in my home

I wanna know why they come and go

Why I'm getting all these thoughts the piano and the drum evoke

I'm reminded of the first time we spoke

How you loved the first rhyme I wrote

Except the curses, but you loved the jokes

How you told me nights I wasn't actin' right

Never letting me take some bad advice, we had our fights, but

It's like your life was meant for you to be my mentor and my guardian

These feelings that I never want to enter in my heart again

Are seeping in, I'm weakened, I'm alive but I'm cold

I imagine you're my passenger reminisce on the road

Back through time

Time, time goes by

Still I cry

Reminiscing 'bout you

And at night

I close my eyes

And ask why

I have to live without you

First Michael Jackson passes, now every day I'm askin'

Why weren't you able to stay?

Days are only kind of better, so I'm writing you this letter

Full of things I never got to say

First and foremost, I love you and that never changes

When you left, I couldn't gauge it, the pain was outrageous

But now it's kind of strange, you help me get through the days just

By thinking of your face and reminiscing through the pages

Everything I wrote and that I'm saying on them stages

I'm passionate, I hear your laugh again and little traces

Of your smile flicker through my closed eyes

Wishin' I could nose dive in your heart's ocean and just float by

Who knows why I feel the way that I do

I got more to say but I think that I'll just save it for you

For that first day we meet again, the stories will be told

We'll be drivin' through our lives and reminisce on the road

Back through time

Time, time goes by

Still I cry

Reminiscing 'bout you

And at night

I close my eyes

And ask why

I have to live without you

Writer's block, sick of grippin' on this damn pencil

Messin' with this man's mental, I need to take a break

I got simple symptoms of a man, gentle

Stressing 'cause my fam' miss you, I need to see your face

You know I can't wait

I can't wait till we can be face to face again

And I could tell you all this in person

Time, time goes by

Still I cry

Reminiscing 'bout you

And at night

I close my eyes

And ask why

I have to live without you

Reminiscing on the better days

Close my eyes and it's like I can see your face

Grandpa always had a joke, I remember like it was yesterday

Last night when I fell asleep

I dreamed you were here right next to me

We were young playing in the street

Just kicking it old school like this beat

Best friend always had my back

Always real and I'm really grateful for that

Good friends from back in the days

So no one can every, every take your place

Seems like all my inspiration is moving and leaving and passing on

Bright stars that inspire me

Touch my life and next minute they're gone