1 You live
2 [Verse 1]
3 How bout them bullets ain't slow you up
4 You ain't really die and we watched you grow up
5 At twelve months you took ya first steps
6 Awkwardly across the kitchen floor to your best
7 Your first breaths that we can call words
8 In ya fathers lap on November 23rd
9 And They were "live for me" and he did for you
10 Flipped to neutron and stayed inside the crib for you
11 And this commitment from ya father imparted a deep sense of value you'd forever harbor
12 And we were all so proud as we seen you gettin' smarter
13 And the bond grow deeper between a mother and a daughter
14 Cause you were not a martyr
15 [Verse 2]
16 At six you started reading whole books
17 At seven you knew how a brain looked
18 And could roughly describe all the different regions
19 Could tell when we were sick and even knew the reason
20 The world wasn't at peace
21 Gunfire every weekend
22 But you were hardly there
23 Cause you was always leaving
24 Field museum planetarium aquarium
25 You saw something special in that tank you were starin' in
26 And in those moments as a little girl you realized it was a bigger world
27 Bigger than the southside
28 Bigger than Chicago
29 And you were bigger but still wanted on rims on ya car though
30 And big ass woofers in ya car door
31 So you could wang like ya daddy at the park eating sharks
32 Went to King where you were teased for being smart
33 Where you bumped into Hadiya teaching art.
34 You Live forever
35 [Verse 3]
36 At sixteen is when you got you scholarship
37 At twenty-two is when you got ya doctorate
38 Even now it's kinda hard to believe
39 But ya father taught you work hard and achieve
40 And you complied
41 Accepted by every medical school you applied
42 But the coolest thing is when they offered you that high paying slot you replied
43 "They need me in the hood" and that's where you reside
44 Free clinic, nobody denied
45 And that's where you heard the shots and quickly ran outside
46 And saw a man and van and a bleeding baby in his hands
47 Fading fast but you knew she could survive
48 Did everything you could to keep this girl alive
49 Stabilized until the ambulance arrived
50 And In that moment where you gave your help, bet you didn't know that you saved yourself
51 You live forever
52 Lord have mercy