Lowkey – Bars For My Brother Lyrics
Lyrics
Lowkey
- I hope you're somewhere listening to this
- I wish I knew why you did what you did
- Cause I still haven't really come to terms with the truth
- There must have been something you were determined to do
- The lessons you taught me, I can't forget
- But there's so many unanswered questions
- Now everything seems meaningless
- You lived fast and died young
- But my brother you were a genius
- How could you ever believe that you'll survive
- I don't care what they say, that shit is suicide
- I won't lie, there was much distance between you and I
- I should've told you not to do it, don't be stupid
- You've got looks, got brains and your future's bright
- Now you're gone I feel like I'm gon' lose my mind
- I never thought you'd get yourself organised
- I wish we saw the signs, the shock left us all traumatised
- These are awful times, and I need more than rhymes
- Cause this was more than a tragedy
- You can't just cheat the forces of gravity
- You left me here to hold a brave face supporting the family
Lowkey
- In a way you were dying to live
- It's fucked up man, I'm crying while I'm writing this shit
- Water from my eyes is stopping me from lighting my spliff
- Why didn't you realise that your life is a gift
- Mum and Dad don't understand why they've outlived their son
- Every single CD, Mix Tape and Album to come
- Is dedicated to no other than my blood brother
- But I hate you, for the way you made my Mum suffer
- Words can't explain, how a certain part of my heart hurts with the harshest pain
- Last time we spoke, we said we weren't brothers and we aren't the same
- I told myself you were too far past insane
- How could we not take your death badly
- I just asked mum and she said your name meant happy
Lowkey
- But my soul is too cold to laugh
- My heart bleeds when I'm looking at your old school photograph
- I wish that I could touch your beautiful flesh
- I'm writing but we ain't even had the funeral yet
- Now death is something, that I'm staying ever ready for
- You had plenty more to give, you weren't even 24
- I don't understand why you had to die
- In a lot of rappers rhymes, death is glamorised
- Not me, I'll always stay remembering you
- I should've known this was something you'd eventually do
- When you got shift, we should've known it was bad
- The next day I was sitting here consoling my Dad
- It's like a nightmare, it still doesn't seem real
Lowkey
- But this is my life, not some fucking deep film
- It's the strange feeling I felt in the late night
- Witnesses said that you fell from a great height
- Can't be my brother man, tell me it ain't right
- Right now I'd rather blaze, we could face life
- Shit what a waste, what a shame
- I just gotta make sure your life wasn't lost in vain
- This is my brother, not just a departed friend
- So hard for my |?| to start again
- From now on our lives will never be the same
- We holding on too tight for the memories to fade
- 24 years was hardly a life
- On the day you passed, it's like a part of me died
- I've been scarred many times but this pain is so much worse
- And it's so much harder to describe
- You will still be missed
- I'm sorry we didn't support you, we thought we did
- I wish I broke your leg so you couldn't jump
- Now all I can do...is rep your fuckin name like I should've done
- Cause it's only right
- I'm still not sleeping, but now I'm seeing your ghost at night
- We all wish we could've stopped you
- I know I can't go back in time now, but I want to
- It's like a tightened knot that I can't undo
- Why did I have to lose you to realise I loved you
- Be careful what you wish for, in case it comes true
- Right now I'm confused, feeling so subdued
- When they arrested you, they wanted to sanction you
- The only thing we did wrong was going and getting you
- Next morning you was up, not doing what you was meant to do
- That wasn't the life that you were meant to have
- That wasn't the way that it was meant to be
- You were sick, not physically but mentally
- I still ain't got a fraction of this shit off of my chest
- All that goes through my mind is the constant regret
- Why why why did you die for no reason
- All of a sudden the weathers cold its so freezin
- Have you ever head the saying, when it rains it pours
- Don't ever try to tell me my pain is the same as yours
- Cause it's not, and everything isn't what it seems
- I'm pinching myself but I know that this is not a dream
- Why did you have to do that, this isn't fair
- Listen my brother, never think that I didn't care
- There's no words to describe the way that this feels
- Now I can clearly separate the fake from the real
- Why did everyone else have to be bro
- I still can't quiet believe that you're actually gone
- Just 5 days, 5 days and it feels like the same day
- Weed ain't helpin but I need it just to maintain
- Cause the bleak reality is terrible
- And last night mom was practically hysterical
- People I thought would care, couldn't care less
- I need a lot of support cause I'm feeling bare stressed
- And everyone else seems immature
- I'm being tested, thinking what is there left that I'm living for
- I need to clear my thoughts, stop thinking and try n breathe
- Just a week ago I was so innocent and naive
- Now my insides are burning like hells flames
- I've realised up until now I've never felt pain
- It's so evident that everything I cared about before was so irrelevant
- There's certain people that call when they see that this shit is hurtin
- But I see them for what they are now cause I'm a different person
Outro
- R.I.P
- In fact fuck R.I.P
- I want you to live through me
- Live through me...
- Live through me...
- Live...through...me...