When You're Gone

Wait til you're dead 'til they sing your song Because they love you more when you're gone Say it ain't right when they did you wrong Because they love you more when you're gone Now everybody wanna shed they tears Never said nothin', when you dead they cheer On the stairway to Heaven, Lord it won't be long Because they love you more when you're gone This shit is crazy, we set aflame our nation for some strangers Hit the streets with the anger but see, barely know our neighbors Barely know they lives, go out get the paper, sayin' "Hi" Don't really care 'til they die - and then everything it changes See your picture everywhere, everybody got a story Lie about thoughts and prayers, when you gone they say they sorry When you was alive they never looked you in your eye Suspectin' they really despised but lovin more on your demise Shit is cray, such is life, when it's dark, see the light When you die, give them life, that is irony and it's rightfully So disturbing, when you lived, wasn't worthy I don't want no flowers when I die Save them tears -- ain't gotta cry I need mine while I'm alive Wait til you're dead 'til they sing your song Because they love you more when you're gone Say it ain't right when they did you wrong Because they love you more when you're gone Now everybody wanna shed they tears Never said nothin', when you dead they cheer On the stairway to Heaven, Lord it won't be long Because they love you more when you're gone This for Breonna Taylor and George Floyd - they was anonymous Cops killed 'em - made 'em famous: death was their accomplishment And countless others paid the price, achieving fame that cost their life And in their name we causin' strife in major cities every night Thinkin' bout the things that we did in people's memory Better to die a martyr we invoke against our enemies Even when you die people feedin' off your energy So when they say your name it gon echo for a century We waited too long to protect our own, Vanessa Guillen died all alone They way that they did her was wrong - and that was before the hammer So why are we so enamored on this idea of revenge Why did we wait 'til she died - just wait 'til it happens again Wait til you're dead 'til they sing your song Because they love you more when you're gone Say it ain't right when they did you wrong Because they love you more when you're gone Now everybody wanna shed they tears Never said nothin', when you dead they cheer On the stairway to Heaven, Lord it won't be long Because they love you more when you're gone