Brother

Intro

I'm falling

We are

We are falling

I'm falling

Verse 1

Had a homie since the Weston days, we was tenants

Momma worked late, we would share the same dinner plate

I was spittin' in the basement, he was watchin' from the steps

Said he saw the vision, told me keep it, don't forget

I made him my right hand, gave him keys to the apartment

Put his name on nothin' but he acted like a partner

He would ask me how I built it, told him trust and hard decisions

Laid the blueprint on the table, never thought I'd need a witness

Verse 2

Started noticin' the subtractions, not the additions

Spreadsheet entries lookin' different, my intuition

Clickin' like a bad transmission, I'm listenin'

To the silence when I ask him, he be twitchin'

Checked the logs, checked the dates, checked the balance

Found the trail of breadcrumbs leadin' straight to his apartment

Stood outside that door with my chest feelin' hollow

Opened it and saw the sneakers that I told him I would follow

Bridge

We don't wish you harm

We pray for you

Could keep that love that I gave to you

Keep that love

Keep that love that I gave to you

Verse 3

First he laughed, like I was trippin', said I'm buggin'

Told me paranoia had me huggin' all my demons

Showed him screenshots, showed the timestamps, showed the transfers

His face changed from confusion to a posture of a stranger

Said "I needed it, you wouldn't understand the pressure

Walkin' in your shadow make a man do things he never"

That's when I felt the fracture, not the anger, just the distance

Twenty years of partnership reduced to one admission

Verse 4

So I wrote it, let the verses be the weapon

Let the syllables dissect the lesson, no expression

Just precision, every line was a incision

Made him look at his decisions with precision

He responded with some texts about my father

Tried to pull my trauma out the closet, made it harder

But I didn't swing back with the force that I could carry

'Cause the victory felt hollow, nothin' like I imagined

Left the battlefield with nothin' in my hands

No white flag, just a man understanding plans

Got replaced, so I sat with the pain and the Hennessy

Wrote these pages till the ink became a ministry

Now I see him in the rearview, smaller than a memory

Hope he findin' what he needed, hope he breathe easy

'Cause I'm finally free and I don't wish him bad

Just a brother I once had, and I'm thankful for what we had

Outro

I'm fallin'

We were

We were fallin'

I'm fallin'

Mm

Mm