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14 Forever
- **14 Forever**
- Verse 1
- Got the cold nights carved up on my hoodie, block lit like a altar,
- Fourteen taught me how to move, how to hustle, how to alter.
- Mama prayin’ on the couch, I’m outside where the sirens sing,
- Young bloods chasin’ paper, heaven be lookin’ like a ring.
- We was kids with grown plans, pockets empty, big dreams,
- Swore to hold it down for each other, blood thicker than the lean.
- They took ’em in the midnight, casket closed, the pastor cried,
- Left me with a promise and a picture taped inside my mind.
- Chorus
- 14 forever, that’s the name I got tattooed,
- Ride or die on the block, that’s the code we never lose.
- Hold my brothers in my heartbeat, in the footsteps that I move,
- 14 forever —keep their stories in my truth.
- Verse 2
- Remember when the corner taught us lessons with a glint in its eye,
- Lost nights, lost chances, lost brothers too young to die.
- I seen tears on concrete, flowers on a mailbox stand,
- I seen loyalty get tested with a trigger in a stranger’s hand.
- We don’t brag, we keep it low, speakin’ silent like a ghost,
- If you took one of ours, we countin’ dues, we holdin’ post.
- But it ain’t all smoke and guns —it’s backyard laughs and old shoes,
- It’s double shifts, it’s late calls, it’s mama payin’ all our dues.
- Chorus
- 14 forever, that’s the name I got tattooed,
- Ride or die on the block, that’s the code we never lose.
- Hold my brothers in my heartbeat, in the footsteps that I move,
- 14 forever —keep their stories in my truth.
- Bridge
- I light a candle for the homies when the winter wind get cold,
- I talk to ghosts like they my council, tellin’ tales the street sold.
- You can judge from a distance, but you ain’t know the nights we bled,
- Our scars map out the lessons and the prayers we said in bed.
- So when I walk, I walk with names —not just numbers on a page,
- I carry all the chapter breaks that made me sage.
- Verse 3
- Now the youngins on the stoop, they look up to what we are,
- We teach ’em to keep faith, keep the peace, and watch for every car.
- We teach ’em to be better, to not repeat the old mistakes,
- To love hard, to move smart, to know when a heart breaks.
- If the world try take the set, we gon’ guard it with our song,
- Fourteen in my chest —that’s the rhythm keepin’ me strong.
- And when my time come, I hope they sing me soft and slow,
- 14 forever on my lips, let the legacy be known.
- Chorus (out)
- 14 forever, that’s the name I got tattooed,
- Ride or die on the block, that’s the code we never lose.
- Hold my brothers in my heartbeat, in the footsteps that I move,
- 14 forever —keep their stories in my truth.
- Outro
- Keep the candles lit, keep the pictures clean, keep the vows we made,
- Fourteen in the rearview, but in my bones they stay.
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