When We Were Friends-CeeLo Green

[ti:When We Were Friends] [ar:Cee-Lo] [al:Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]When We Were Friends - CeeLo Green [00:03.54]Hey hey hey hey [00:08.14] [00:12.38]Hey hey hey heeey [00:17.35] [00:17.99]Ooh ask me my ni**a [00:20.10]The only one there that'll be my ni**a [00:22.18]And I'm gon' finally be free my ni**a [00:24.31]But you don't have to follow me my ni**a [00:26.86]Oh yeah it's still love my ni**a [00:28.75]And I ain't gon' stop just because my ni**a [00:30.95]Daddy Paxson always does my ni**a [00:33.03]And always remember what it was my ni**a [00:35.16] [00:35.81]La da da da la dadadadada [00:40.23] [00:52.53]When we were friends [00:53.59]The days would begin and end [00:54.90]Went from boys to men we boys 'til then [00:56.86]We know each other real [00:57.85]We know each other rules [00:59.05]And we wore each other's clothes [01:00.42]And each other's shoes [01:01.37]But in an instance the days become distance [01:03.78]Your path doesn't go in [01:04.99]The same direction his went [01:06.34]And can't help but be scared [01:07.79]Of the virtually unknown up ahead [01:09.40](I heard what you said) [01:10.37]But I'll be fine [01:11.72]Whether it is favor or failure [01:13.32]It must be mine [01:14.44]Well he can stand still [01:15.56]If that's how that man feel [01:16.91]Cuz what can't can't and whatever can will [01:18.84]So I'm walking toward my future with my back to it [01:21.03]Hoping you look up and see me [01:22.34]As a reason to do it [01:23.50]When you get grown it's a given [01:25.17]You damn near gotta do the same thing for a living [01:27.57]Ooh ask me my ni**a [01:29.79]The only one there that'll be my ni**a [01:31.95]And I'm gon' finally be free my ni**a [01:33.99]But you don't have to follow me my ni**a [01:36.33]Oh yeah it's still love my ni**a [01:38.50]And I ain't gon' stop just because my ni**a [01:40.66]Daddy Paxson always does my ni**a [01:42.75]And always remember what it was my ni**a [01:44.92] [01:45.78]La da da da la dadadadada [01:50.14]La da da da la dadadadada [01:53.80] [01:54.40]La da da da la dadadadada [01:58.04] [01:58.73]La da da da la dadadadada [02:02.63]And my cousin I love him like a son [02:04.30]Cause I was him [02:05.01]And he think his thuggin' pleases me [02:06.19]But it doesn't [02:06.96]How could I applause it when I had caused it [02:08.76]But if it's God's plan for him [02:10.23]I guess I ain't cost sh*t [02:11.44]For what I gave him - wasn't so bad [02:12.96]I couldn't save him [02:13.73]Either they'll enslave him or a gun'll grave him [02:15.67]I still believe in him but he think I'm leavin him [02:17.86]When I be busy he think I'm bob-n-weavin him [02:20.28]I probably sound like his daddy [02:21.38] [02:22.16]But over the phone cause I ain't [02:23.55]Around - like his daddy [02:24.82]When we talk I wanna hear you be productive [02:26.82]Conversate for hours 'bout something constructive [02:28.60] [02:29.57]But it never come up [02:30.66]With all them niggaz round your neck you [02:32.03]Ain't gon' never come up [02:33.38]Maybe I'm jealous cause you love them more [02:35.41]Can't understand what you love them for [02:37.60]Don't get me wrong you know I love them too [02:39.67]But you know who I always hold above them you [02:41.59] [02:42.20]And it ain't nobody business [02:43.40]I'll just make believe that music [02:44.68]Can miraculously mend this [02:46.63]So I'll be a sound [02:48.08]And then you do your thing to it [02:49.54]And we mix it down [02:50.61] [02:51.32]And make a song my ni**a cause even [02:52.80]When I'm away I'll always be around [02:54.83]Ooh ask me my ni**a [02:57.15]The only one there that'll be my ni**a [02:59.16]And I'm gon' finally be free my ni**a [03:01.34]But you don't have to follow me my ni**a [03:03.95]Oh yeah it's still love my ni**a [03:05.81]And I ain't gon' stop just because my ni**a [03:08.01]Daddy Paxson always does my ni**a [03:10.01]And always remember what it was my ni**a [03:12.32] [03:12.94]La da da da la dadadadada [03:17.37]La da da da la dadadadada [03:21.65]La da da da la dadadadada [03:25.97]La da da da la dadadadada