Intro: Hydroponikz

Yeah, yo, uh

Rest in peace Grandmaster Roc Raida

Grandmaster Roc Raida

J Dilla by 10

We miss ya

Verse 1: Hydroponikz

Yo, 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

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

Chorus: Anika Hazel

Time, time goes by (yeah)

Still I cry

Reminiscing bout you

And I close my eyes

And ask why

I have to live without you

Verse 2: Hydroponikz

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

Chorus: Anika Hazel

Time, time goes by

Still I cry

Reminiscing 'bout you

And I close my eyes

And ask why

I have to live without you

Verse 3: Hydroponikz

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

Can't wait till we get

Be face to face again and I can

I can tell you all this in person

Chorus: Anika Hazel

Time, time goes by

Still I cry

Reminiscing bout you

And I close my eyes

And ask why

I have to live without you

Bridge: Anika Hazel

Time, time goes by (Reminiscing on the better days, close my eyes and its like I can see your face)

Still I cry

Reminiscing bout you (Grandpa always had a joke, I remember like it was yesterday)

And I close my eyes (Last night when I fell asleep, I dreamed you were here right next to me)

And ask why

I have to live without you (We were young playing in the street, just kicking it old school like this beat)

Time, time goes by (Best friend always had my back, always real and I'm really grateful for that)

Still I cry

Reminiscing bout you (Good friends from back in the days, so no one can never, ever take your place)

And I close my eyes (Seems like all my inspiration is moving and leaving and passing on)

And ask why

I have to live without you (Bright stars that inspire me, touch my life and next minute they're gone)