Myrlin - Number 2-7 lyrics

[Verse One] I'm floatin' down this road I'm driftin' through time. Times long ago I think I realized (4) The shortest truth in life is that life is finite Sometimes I think of my mothers eyes And all her sacrifice. (4) She told me about her brother. Told me how he died Told me about her mother. Told me how she cried (4) Sounds of gunshots collide in her mind like a metal bucket of frozen tears tappin' Out the syllables for the word homicide (4) Call me Number Two-Seven plenty of years I count these blessins' When I was just One-Seven my notebook would hold confessions I wrote and 2Pac spoke about a life so wrestles on the brink of d**h and Tonight my sense of self so breathless Call me Number Two-Seven. Plenty of years I count these blessins Number Two-Seven same year that claimed Amy Janis, Curt and Hendrix Twenty-six years and forty-five weeks ago I was an infant hanging on to life because wasn't no blood Running through my legs and toes (oh no) My artery was stitched and sowed, re-stitched, I lived I was a miracle Que Milagro Paso? Fate dances like un tiraso Seventeen years ago I learn to spit chingasos Que hubo vato? Just a snot nose Speaking slanglish with my big primo, Kegan Chillin' in the sun bakin' Con mi abuela contemplatin' My Tio Ricky's d**h and the man who slayed him [Chorus] I say a prayer for you. I say a prayer for you With my abuelita Say a prayer for me Say a prayer for me Cuz you know I need ya In this game of life ain't nobody ever-ever get-get out alive Forever twenty-seven, Forever twenty-nine Sam Cooke was the sh** man I think that dude saved my life Forever twenty-three Forever twenty-five 2Pac was the sh** man I know that dude saved my life! [Verse Two] In 67' Otis was 26. He just recorded a song about the Frisco Bay Ain't nothin' colder than a crashed plane on the banks of a snowy lake Huey P was twenty-four years of age when the panther party started Same age as Christopher Wallace when his soul departed Young Biggie just one year older than my Tio Ricky When the gunman got shifty and blast my Uncle in the back Cuz Ricky was about 6'3” Gunman just a buck fifty It's tragedy when something as small as a bullet Can tear through your whole family And my Momma, my Momma, my Momma weep She thinks of her brother as forever, forever, forever twenty three [Chorus] I say a prayer for you. I say a prayer for you With my abuelita Say a prayer for me Say a prayer for me Cuz you know I need ya In this game of life ain't nobody ever-ever get-get out alive Forever twenty-seven, Forever twenty-nine I'm bumpin' Amy Winehouse until I reach the sky Forever twenty-three Forever twenty-five My Momma and Joaquin Phoenix wish their brothers were alive [Verse Three] Aliyah took that flight on August twenty-five A day after I turned fifteen. What a young life, she was twenty-two Same age I was when I was bumpin' Amy in my living room Feelin' like my body was a mess I bump those grooves to fit my mood I began to write this tune at twenty-seven A year later I return just to finish the session By the time this cross your mind I'll probably be twenty-nine If I'm blessed with another year of my life Maybe it's the last thing that I write Maybe I'm throwin' up peace sign to you from the after life While you vibe to this in 2099 Picture me wavin' at you, wavin' at you, wavin' at you like, “Hi.”