[Dedicated to Hosanna Marquez and Alex Shaw]

[Verse 1]

Hey dad remember when you dated someone named Kim?

And she had a baby but you decided you didn’t want him?

Well here I am now 14 years later. My!

How time flies, am I right? I’m happy you’re out of my sight, still!

Whoever’s listening to this, don’t try to hide it

You have someone in your life who did something they ain’t survived and

You felt for them for so much time and you still remember em’

But you just want to hide them forever, еh?

I’ve lost so many dads in my life cause еach one of them was stuffed up

A boyfriend that stole moms RV a tall guy who wanted us to shut up

A very nice guy that never arrived soon we found out

He was in it for the money! All these xcept Ray. Not him, sound out!

And you all didn’t know someone was the enemy

Fore he did da double cross of the century they didn’t love you cause hate has no penalty

They did something bad to you then just went separately

And all of these pasts no damn one wants to talk to me

Bout cause you all don’t want the past to haunt you, see

Guy named tristen had tattoo of his grandpa Tim

I asked how he died he said he died in World War III??

You can get fame

And rich and everything you want but along the way you’ll realize that in someplace

You dropped your wallet and left it be

[Chorus]

HIND

A metaphor for remembering those who

DIED

Trying to take care of you like they did their whole

LIFE

And you’ve only cared about yourself until you rea

LIZE

That you dropped your wallet and left it be

HIND

And everybody thinks that you’re doing just

FINE

While you really are on your knees trying not to

CRY

As you pray for forgiveness to their spirits in the

SKY

Cause you’ve dropped your wallet and you left it

[Verse 2]

Hey dad, remember anything about your son?

Such as mom decided to name him Esteban?

He had two disorders, ADHD and autism

And to take care of him you had no optimism

Now I am in Hotchkiss and I am known as Steve

And im what happened in my schoolmates past im wondering

They probably had a grandparent who died in a crash

Or that relative got a bit of a slash

I hope you know what you talkin bout when you tryna say nothings wrong

Nobodys happy forever and that is why I made this song

To put you back in your inner memories where there was lots of pain

And you felt like all the time the Sky only had lots of rain

There are moments in time where there’ll be something bad

Usually death and it makes the moment something sad

You think you can forget them and try to be something glad

But the deceased were the best things that something had

You try to forget and only care about yourself

Nothing else you can’t get your feelings out yourself

You’ll get so sad and crazy till you shout for help

But it might be too late and you may go south to hell

You can get fame

And rich and everything you want but along the way you’ll realize that in someplace

You dropped your wallet and left it be

[Chorus]

HIND

A metaphor for remembering those who

DIED

Trying to take care of you like they did their whole

LIFE

And you’ve only cared about yourself until you rea

LIZE

That you dropped your wallet and left it be

HIND

And everybody thinks that you’re doing just

FINE

While you really are on your knees trying not to

CRY

As you pray for forgiveness to their spirits in the

SKY

Cause you’ve dropped your wallet and you left it

[Verse 3]

Hey dad, remember that you wanted to have a second chance

To raise me so you went and asked Kim and she said yes?

So you started to care for me and promised that you’d be round for ev’

Then poof, you were out the door never to be found again

I ain’t talkin bout this to you guys to make you sad

If you try to hide everything yourself you may make people mad

When you lie all the time and least that’s how it feels to I

Such when a girl told me she was neither gender, I do have Faith In you guys

I hope you know just how it feels when you have everything you want

And you still want more cause you’ve forgotten there’s more people and not just stuff

I am a king cause I am descended from the Reyes family

But I have no greed and that is exactly why Stray is no tragedy

My birth name was always Esteban

But i always wanted to fit in with all the people in the place I went to

And I’m being tested on

And the reason is most likely cause I have some ADHD

Now I think I want some Bestie Buds

So my life is a bit confusing right now especially since I am now a rapper to all you and you probably think that I’ll rap about the typical

But I’ll have some more surprises in the bag for you later on

Burning Buildings with Dalton, Reyes, American Sky but this song

Is only to make you remember that you have people who can keep

You loved but if you ignore that then soon you’ll all drop your wallets and leave them be

[Chorus]

HIND

A metaphor for remembering those who

DIED

Trying to take care of you like they did their whole

LIFE

And you’ve only cared about yourself until you rea

LIZE

That you dropped your wallet and left it be

HIND

And everybody thinks that you’re doing just

FINE

While you really are on your knees trying not to

CRY

As you pray for forgiveness to their spirits in the

SKY

Cause you’ve dropped your wallet and you left it

[Outro]

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