[Intro]

Here I stand now all alone

Memories flash of those I've known

Cannot change things said and done

Live life full 'til my time comes

[Chorus I]

Of lives of friends that I have lost

Who pays the price, who pays the cost

Can't cry, just anger till the end

It burns inside to lose a friend

Not even for a second when he woke up did he ask

If today was gonna be his last

An average day in the middle of a life

Terminated by a sharp knife

Killing, spilling the liquid blood

As his boyz found him lying face down in the mud

You might say this song is in poor taste

But I must discuss the waste

Walking thin lines, anything to cop a dime

Labeled habitual, a loser three times

Just fuckin' around, knuckles bloody to the bone

Whatever, the future's unknown

Unless you believe in predestination of fate

The letter read termination

It was fucked up I couldn't make out his face

Through the blood, what a fucking waste

[Chorus I]

Of lives of friends that I have lost

Who pays the price, who pays the cost

Can't cry, just anger till the end

It burns inside to lose a friend

[Chorus II]

My friend was there until the end (my friend)

Can never be replaced

The pain that I taste (it's over)

What a fucking waste

[Chorus I]

Of lives of friends that I have lost

Who pays the price, who pays the cost

Can't cry, just anger till the end

It burns inside to lose a friend

Cold blooded murder, suicide, another body laid to rest

Untimely demise, homicide, my faith is put to the test

Is there a god, sometimes I just can't believe

My friend who is dead was shot and then robbed

Something quite hard to conceive

People dying everyday there's got to be a better way

The losses blow my mind away, the stain of blood will always stay

Like the memory of a friend who stood with me until the end

The losses blow my mind away, the stain of blood will always stay

[Chorus I]

Of lives of friends that I have lost

Who pays the price, who pays the cost

Can't cry, just anger till the end

It burns inside to lose a friend

It's not for me that I grieve, but for the families left berieved

I question whether life is fair, I wonder if I even care

We think we know what life is worth until they lower us beneath the earth

Mother crying, forever hurt, my face like stone I shovel dirt

[Chorus II] x3

My friend was there until the end (my friend)

Can never be replaced

The pain that I taste (it's over)

What a fucking waste