So yo, today your birthday?
Yea
You sure?
Daddy!
I don`t think today your birthday
Then what you called me for?
Oh, I don`t know I just called to see what you`s doing
What you turn today? Nineteen?
No I am turning ten, Daddy
Nah you turning what thirty-two
Thirty-two, you thirty-two today

You have been away for a long time
It feel like it, don`t it?
Yea
Yea, but I miss you though, you miss me?
Yes very much, I just wished you could be here
Word?
Yes
Okay I will be there soon alright?
You gonna be here tonight?
No boo boo, I ain`t gonna be there tonight
Aww

(You)
Don`t you know I`d die for you?
I`d lay down my life for you
(I would die for you)
Don`t you know I`d die for you?
I`d lay down my life for you
(I would die for you)

I love you Daddy
I remember Feburary 27, 1994
Tryin` to make it to the hospital through three inches of snow
Something`s goin` wrong I can tell but I dont know
I got this feelin` in my gut this ain`t how it supposed to go

Three pounds, two ounces and two months premature
Into the incubator, is she gonna make it? They ain`t sure
Automatically, I placed the blame on my health
Hell I`m a father mayne, I placed the blame on myself

Was it somethin` that I smoked, did I eat, or did I drink it?
Or was it somethin` I was doin that I did or did not think it?
Watchin` her breathe through a hose in her nose
Whats this EKG machine, whats this s**t on her toes?

It`s 94, I`m 85 so I`m spooked as can be
I`m prayin` and I`m askin` why he do this to me?
See, I used to hold you in the palm of my hand
And just to see you pull through, s**t I knew you`d pull through

(You)
Don`t you know I`d die for you?
I`d lay down my life for you
(I would die for you)
Don`t you know I`d die for you?
I`d lay down my life for you
(I would die for you)

March the 2nd, 1999
The year and the date I got my little mine
I guess I felt how my father felt and his father felt
And his father must have felt to see his self

It`s like a little me in the flesh
He got my blood and my heart in his chest
Needless to say man I love him to death
Teach him if he disrespect me, I`m a love him till death

Left to go outta town right after he was born
Got a record deal, three months later daddy was gone
Its like I`m tryin` to raise him over the phone
He barely know my face when he see it but he know my tone

I`m up at night like do he know who his daddy is
I`m real close to sayin`, "F**k the showbiz!"
But when I hear him call his daddy now
And when I hear him tell his friends
"I wanna be just like my daddy now"

Hope he forgive me for the sacrifice
So he can have a better life than I had

(You)
Don`t you know I`d die for you?
I`d lay down my life for you
(I would die for you)
Don`t you know I`d die for you?
I`d lay down my life for you
(I would die for you)

Don`t you know I`d die for you?
I`d lay down my life for you
(I would die for you)
Don`t you know I`d die for you?
I`d lay down my life for you
(I would die for you)