Erykah's Lament

He was her everything
Now he only visits in her dreams
She writes these letters when she's home alone
Innocence I bet they once called them
Erykah's lament
Erykah's lament
Erykah's lament
Oh Erykah

Erykah, Erykah
Where the hell you been?
Can't believe you turned your life all the way to the streets
Man what the fuck would you do if I left you
Would you keep moving forward and prove that you're special
I'll let you
But damnit and you really broke and needing that rescue
I got love for everything you do and man it's so stressful
That I'm rhyming with the words of these past ancestors
Haven't met them yet in my past life, I just might enter
Another scope of life
Surrounded by a bitching wife
Gotta make it no matter how I'm gonna pass this strife
But damnit I, give props to them that camoflauge
Get away from the troubles of lives, till they realize
It's not the fucken right way that they are doing it
Always been pursuing it
Till I saw you passed out in the gutter
Another man finished his job and kicked you out
A lot of potential decided up on another route
And I'm really sorry wasn't ever there when you needed it
My greediness steered you into the wrong disobedience
I'm feeling it worst, every singular day
Sometimes I don't even have the fucken right words to say
To fix up something that wasn't even partially my fault

He was her everything
Now he only visits in her dreams
She writes these letters when she's home alone
Innocence I bet they once called them
Erykah's lament
Erykah's lament
Erykah's lament
Oh Erykah

Erykah, Erykah
Where the hell you been?
Can't believe you turned your life all the way to the streets
And I took a lot of my time when I trust you
Give it to these people that talk shit and cuff you but
Understand that they are just doing their job
No use arguing or fussing or praying to God
For another chance at doing it all better at life
You had a baby it's not yours, take care of it right
Maybe difficult for you to get more of that cash
But just promise that you'll stop in that corner selling your ass
Cause your body is a temple
You gotta learn to respect it
No matter what somebody says
Just never neglect it
Cause he'll leave you brusied
Crying on the corner at night
Then you confused
Wondering why you can't be a wife
Man that's just the sad part of it all
Give you everything and just watch how you fall
It's a cruel world wasn't meant for some of us to really live
But we here now might as well stick it out do our bid
Was really proud when you got your first crib
But it's sad to see what living in it really did
Another brothel just damaged by the system
Man I hope you don't come out of this as another fucken victim