Happy Birthday

Happy birthday, so make a wish

Please accept my apologies, wonder what would have been

Would you've been a little angel or an angel of sin?

Tom-boy running around, hanging with all the guys

Or a little tough boy with beautiful brown eyes

I payed for the murder before they determined the sex

Choosing our life over your life meant your death

And you never got a chance to even open your eyes

Sometimes I wonder as a fetus if you fought for your life

Would you have been a little genius in love with math?

Would you have played in your school clothes and made me mad?

Would you have been a little rapper like your poppa The Piper?

Would you have made me quit smokin' by finding one of my lighters?

I wonder about your skin tone and shape of your nose?

And the way you would have laughed and talked fast or slow?

Think about it every year, so I picked up a pen

Happy birthday, love you whoever you would've been

Happy birthday

All I thought was a dream, make a wish

Was as real as it seemed, happy birthday

All I thought was a dream, make a wish

Was as real as it seemed, I made a mistake

I've got a million excuses to why you died

And other people got their own reasons for homicide

Who's to say it would've worked and who's to say it wouldn't have?

I was young and strugglin' but old enough to be your dad

The fear of being a father has never disappeared

Pondering frequently while I'm sippin' on my beer

My vision of a family was artificial and fake

So when it came time to create I made a mistake

Now you've got a little brother, maybe he's really you?

Maybe you really forgave us knowin' we was confused?

Maybe every time that he smiles it's you proudly

Knowin' that your father's doin' the right thing now?

I never tell a woman what to do with her body

But if she don't love children then we can't party

Think about it every year, so I picked up a pen

Happy birthday, love you whoever you would've been

Happy birthday

All I thought was a dream, make a wish

Was as real as it seemed, happy birthday

All I thought was a dream, yeah, make a wish

Was as real as it seemed, I made a mistake

And from the heavens to the womb to the heavens again

From the endin' to the endin', never got to begin

Maybe one day we can meet face to face?

In a place without time and space, happy birthday

From the heavens to the womb to the heavens again

From the endin' to the endin', never got to begin

Maybe one day we can meet face to face

In a place without time and space, happy birthday

All I thought was a dream, make a wish

Was as real as it seemed, happy birthday

All I thought was a dream, make a wish

Was as real as it seemed, I made a mistake