[2Pac]

(hahhh, hahaha) Hehehe, word

It's like all we got left - teardrops and closed
caskets

(throw it up fool, hey nigga, haha)

Tell me how you feel homey

(Yeah, it took a week to go down)

You recollects and see how crazy it sounds

The whole town's on a mission, adolescents
(penitentary bound)

(Now introducin Young Trigga)

Since birth, eyes set on gettin bigger

Just anotha wild-ass nigga

(But he was fiendin for Precious) WHAT?

(But Precious was a ghetto girl)

Couldn't be no sex without that gold Lexus

(But Lil' Trigga was heartbroken, he had to get
his papers)

Seein visions of people smokin and niggaz catchin
vapors

Got his man from around the corner (we'll call
him Lil' Mo)

(Been in so many reform schools they had to let
him go)

(Here's where the plot thickens)

They got a plot to make a profit with they glocks
spittin

(They call the squad, hittin blocks with they
guns blowin)

(Somebody's gonna die tonight)

Still no one's knowin, so they kept goin

Catchin dealers comin out they cars (will they
survive?)

(Two semi-automatic nines, them niggaz died)

(Plus nobody in the hood cries, it's like they
celebrate

to death and wish they could die) So peep the
lesson

But wait a minute back to Precious

She's snortin dope in the back seat of Trigg's
Lexus

TEARDROPS AND CLOSED CASKETS

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Teardrops and closed caskets

[Lawz] TEARDROPS AND CLOSED CASKETS

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Teardrops and closed caskets

(Don't let these ghetto streets get you,
Precious)

(was the victim, from a dime to a nickel)

Hopin God's blessings stick with ya

Picture the neighborhood kingpin, who's gettin
bigger

Familiar face, but a man now, it's Lil' Trigga

Now Lil' Mo was a soldier to the fullest

Down for his homies, always the first to spit
bullets

(All he wanted was to be a thug)

Never pictured his truest homeboy would fall in
love

(Here's where it gets ya)

Now Precious is pregnant, Lil' Trigga is happy

He wants to marry her now (not knowin he ain't
the daddy)

But Precious was lonely while Lil' Trigga was
makin dough

She's slippin in secret places and gettin with
Lil' Mo

The neighborhood's buzzin, now people are talkin

Lil' Trigga's gettin pictures of the both of 'em
walkin

(Hand in hand, couldn't understand)

How his baby's mama could disapear with another
man

(and his best friend)

Now jealousy's dangerous, and if you don't
believe me

Then watch the way that this story ends and maybe
you'll see

There ain't no heroes or villains, ain't no
pleasure in killin

Just the smoke from the cap peelin a man with no
feelings

TEARDROPS AND CLOSED CASKETS

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Teardrops and closed caskets

Bury you dead and look ahead

A man with no feelings

[Lawz] TEARDROPS AND CLOSED CASKETS

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Teardrops and closed caskets

That's all we got left, that's all

[Outlawz]

Now with the problems of poverty

and the tricks to these tales

How many people'll die

how many'll live to tell

Although best friends before

Lil' Trigga and Mo

(They in an all out war, over a fiend they ain't
know)

Behind the curtains their privacy lust is already
laid down

The results is the same with different names and
it turns out

[2Pac]

Y'all know how it is, same old thing in the same
old town

Lil' Trigg got his nose wide open on this one
trick, now he's played out

Think it's Lil' Mo (was plottin plans on gettin
bigger)

(Precious was his way to put his hands on Lil'
Trigga)

All the while let's look at Precious

Too dumb to see what's goin down (too doped up to
ask questions)

Used to be comrades (but now we blast on sight)

What could be so bad (God, will we last tonight?)

From misdemeanors to felonies, small-time to
sellin ki's

I can't believe the shit they tellin me

They open fire, three bodies drop, so call the
cops

(Precious, Lil' Mo and Trigg)

TEARDROPS AND CLOSED CASKETS

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Aiy QBIII in this motherfucker

Teardrops and closed caskets

We dedicate this to all the fallen comrades

(that's right)

All the homies that didn't make it to see this
day

(rest in peace)

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Yaknahmean? I know it's hard out there,
heheh

with teardrops and closed caskets

It's like that's all we got to look forward to
these days

Murders, brothers dyin, funerals

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Shit, it's like I done ran out of suits
homey

I done ran out of tears

Know we gon' have to do somethin y'all

We gon' have to do somethin

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] Cause I know all these mothers is tired of
seein the same thing

(rest in peace)

Teardrops and closed caskets

I send this out to M'thulu Geronimo

and to, all the fallen comrades, all the
soldiers

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

(to the homey Boonie, rest in peace nigga)

[Pac] All the homies that fell, all the homies

May God bless your families

May you always live in the motherfuckin heart

[Nate] Will I.. forever be alone

[Pac] In a thug niggaz heart forever

(that's right)

Rest in peace nigga

May your enemies be deceased, dead on the
streets

We can't have peace til the niggaz get a piece

[Nate] Will I..