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- "If I Don't Wake Up Tomorrow"
- Don Wizdom
- HOOK
- Ayah, Aisha, and Lailah
- If I don't wake up tomorrow then I've gone to see your brother
- Don't forget what's in your hearts
- And take care of your mothers
- I wasn't always what you needed, wasn't always what I should
- But every breath I had I spent trying to make it good
- So if I don't wake up tomorrow know I left you all my love
- Mohamed hold the door —tell Allah I'm on my way up
- VERSE 1 (Ayah)
- Ayah I know you probably got questions I can't answer right
- Last memory is when I walked into my mother's house that night
- I was supposed to see you but I picked you up and held you tight
- Your mom took off, I had my rights but I had lost my mind
- Just started drinking, getting high —left everything behind
- From there it was the bottom, wasn't long before the cuffs
- I told myself I'd reach back out but never had the guts
- There isn't a single day that passes that I don't think of you
- A 21 year old woman now and I watched none of it come true
- I can't get those years back and I won't pretend I can
- I just need you to know you had a father, not just a broken man
- He just broke before he could be what you deserved to see
- If you ever hear this song —Ayah, this is me
- I'm a fuck up, let me just say that for the record straight
- A drug addict who chose the bag over being in your grace
- Almost always full of shit, I know how that sounds
- I been the reason people left, I been the one that let 'em down
- I ain't standing here pretending that I got it all together
- I just finally stopped drowning long enough to write this letter
- Every promise that I broke is on me, every missed year
- Every birthday I wasn't there for —I feel all of that right here
- I could make excuses but you've heard enough of those from me
- The truth is I was selfish and I let the poison get to me
- So if you're hearing this and you still got anger —good, hold it
- I just needed you to know before I'm gone I finally owned it
- HOOK
- (spoken) To the three most precious things God ever made —I love you
- If I don't wake up tomorrow then I've gone to see your brother
- Don't forget what's in your hearts
- And take care of your mothers
- I wasn't always what you needed, wasn't always what I could
- But every breath that I have left I'm trying to make it what I should
- So if I don't wake up tomorrow know I left you all my love
- Mohamed hold the door —tell Allah I'm coming up
- VERSE 2 (Aisha &Lailah)
- Then Aisha came into my world and called me dad
- First time in a long time something good came from what I had
- Wasn't even mine by blood but I claimed her like she was
- Because real fatherhood ain't DNA —it's showing up because
- Then Lailah arrived and I looked at her brand new face
- Four months old and already putting me in my place
- I look at these two girls and I see everything I wasted
- Every version of myself I buried, every bottom that I tasted
- I ain't cured, I ain't perfect, still fighting every day
- But I got two reasons now to make sure that I stay
- Katie holding everything together while I find my feet
- These girls don't know it yet but they pulled me back from underneath
- So Aisha, Lailah —if tomorrow never comes for me
- Just know you saved your father before your father could be free
- HOOK
- (spoken) To the three most precious things God ever made —I love you
- If I don't wake up tomorrow then I've gone to see your brother
- Don't forget what's in your hearts
- And take care of your mothers
- I wasn't always what you needed, wasn't always what I could
- But every breath that I have left I'm trying to make it what I should
- So if I don't wake up tomorrow know I left you all my love
- Mohamed hold the door —tell Allah I'm coming up
- VERSE 3 (Mohamed)
- Mohamed, my son, you didn't even get a year
- The system had you and the system didn't keep you here
- Suspicious circumstances —that's what the paperwork said
- Like they could file away the weight of my firstborn dead
- I wasn't there to protect you and that lives in me every night
- A father who couldn't reach his son, couldn't even fight
- Foster care took everything and nobody answered for shit
- I buried that grief in a bag because I couldn't afford it
- But the deen taught me you're with Allah in the highest place
- Jannah raised you when your father couldn't see your face
- So when these girls ask about you I'ma proudly speak your name
- Mohamed ibn Abdul Rahim —and on that day we will meet again
- And when my time comes and I finally close my eyes
- Tell Allah I tried to fix what broke before I died
- Save me a place next to you, I got apologies to make
- Three daughters and a son —that's the family I'll take
- HOOK (final)
- Ayah, Aisha, and Lailah
- If I don't wake up tomorrow then I've gone to see your brother
- Don't forget what's in your hearts
- And take care of your mothers
- I wasn't always what you needed, wasn't always what I should
- But every breath I had I spent trying to make it good
- So if I don't wake up tomorrow know I left you all my love
- Mohamed hold the door —tell Allah I'm on my way up
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