Lyrics a song for ma - ejazz

(Hey Ejazz, where are you?
Are you out of town or what?
Didn't see you long time
Phone me ok?
Bye)

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This goes out to a woman that raised me
Fled dictatorship when my dad was just a baby
Despite her old age and how tired of shit she may seem
Sharp as the knife that I just couldn't slit across my veins, she

Would pick me up from school
Teach me prayers in the car
Though I didn't think it's cool
I'd rather headbang to guitar
Dada digging in the garden
You're making rotli in the kitchen
Telling me to choop when I refuse to listen, now I listen intently

There's more important things to life than stackin m's and whippin' a Bentley
In my heart is where my fam and friends be
But when it decides to weep usually it weeps gently
This life is messy
I think it's time to change the bedsheets

I know that when you're gone
There's no one left to call me Mitu
I feel like a bad grandson when I don't get to see you
I love it when you give the chapters of your life a read through
As it helps me understand why we do all the things that we do

No one can ever expect how the planet will change its pace
Dada assigned me the role of a pillar and that I will never disgrace
The whole family knows no one could ever take your place
And I just get so damn happy when a smile is on your face

I know this disease you got
is tryna freeze your heart
But whenever you think of me and pray
It really means a lot
Sacrifices that you made
Just so we can reach the top
Of our potential not just physical but mental and I plot

To be the best friend, brother, son, and one day father that I can be
I often think about the day when your life will be ending
I'll do what people do, keep what I love and leave the rest
Ma the curry that you make be the best

She would pick me up from school
Teach me prayers in the car
Though I didn't think it's cool
I'd rather headbang to guitar
Dada digging in the garden
You're making rotli in the kitchen
Telling me to choop and then I listen
And no amount of wishin' changes fate I know I'll be ok
I don't know how the family will react to being rearranged
Just push it all inside what can you do it's in our DNA
I don't believe in God but pray to Dada when I see his grave
It's driving me insane

Why can't we just be stronger
We all just want you to be on this Earth a little longer
And as I write this song hoping that this will make it better
I'm just wishing that I'm wrong about this shit and I can see you up in heaven