Time Lyrics

Verse 1:
I'll never kill you again, put my faith in your hands
I only raced with you because being late is not in the plans
And if I wasted you, I had too much on my hands
Is it true they say you wait for no man
I used to hoop for Jay throughout grammar school, couldn't ball for shit
The coach was acting stingy with you, so I rode the bench
Said I'd dress you in a rolly if I ever got rich
And fill you bezel full of vegetables ? on my wrist
You put the hair on my testicles, the growth in my dick
You the reason I stopped moping and got over that bitch
The only one that get me sober when I'm going for fifth
You know the album Patrick stole on me and opened my shit
I seen judges hand you out for selling coke on the strip
New Year's eve we count you down before we open the crisp
I never got to tell you thank you for the flow that I spit
And let me reach an age I never thought would grow to exist
If you was mine

Hook:
I wish that you were mine
I would go back in time
I wish that you were mine
No time, no, time, no time
I wish that you were mine
I would go back in time
I wish that you were mine
No time, no, time, no time
Verse 2:
My sister would've been a virgin 'til she finished with school
And had her first one by surgeons instead of f-ing with dudes

Aliyah never got murdered, the nine-eleven victims would've survived
Cause them planes wouldn't have been in the sky

My grandma still be living with the spirit of god
In the kitchen, fixing chicken, saying deliver me god
I would've listened more in class instead of dipping with ?
Or skipping fifth to put some dick in a bra
If you was mine, could you imagine who would still be alive
Who served a purpose on this earth and got murdered or died

Malcom X would still be a mecca on his knees at the mosque
Making ? til he find you on your knees to Allah
Doctor King would still be marching, keeping freedom alive
With his dream that one day the nation and people gon' rise
B.I.G. wouldn't have died from those shots
Shit, I wish you was mine
Built a machine big enough to take us all back in time
If you was mine

Hook:
I wish that you were mine
I would go back in time
I wish that you were mine
No time, no, time, no time
I wish that you were mine
I would go back in time
I wish that you were mine
No time, no, time, no time

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Track 18 from GemStones' mixtape: The Testimony of GemStones. In this song, he address time as if it were a person, cleverly keeping up the extended metaphor throughout the song. He wants to control time, but knows that he’s powerless to stop it from continuing.

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