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.