So yo, today your birthday?   Yea   You sure?   Daddy!   I don't think today your birthday   Then what you called me for?   Oh, I don't know I just called to see what you's doing   What you turn today? Nineteen?   No I am turning ten, Daddy   Nah you turning what thirty-two   Thirty-two, you thirty-two today      You have been away for a long time   It feel like it, don't it?   Yea   Yea, but I miss you though, you miss me?   Yes very much, I just wished you could be here   Word?   Yes   Okay I will be there soon alright?   You gonna be here tonight?   No boo boo, I ain't gonna be there tonight   Aww      (You)   Don't you know I'd die for you?   I'd lay down my life for you   (I would die for you)   Don't you know I'd die for you?   I'd lay down my life for you   (I would die for you)      I love you Daddy   I remember Feburary 27, 1994   Tryin' to make it to the hospital through three inches of snow   Something's goin' wrong I can tell but I dont know   I got this feelin' in my gut this ain't how it supposed to go      Three pounds, two ounces and two months premature   Into the incubator, is she gonna make it? They ain't sure   Automatically, I placed the blame on my health   Hell I'm a father mayne, I placed the blame on myself      Was it somethin' that I smoked, did I eat, or did I drink it?   Or was it somethin' I was doin that I did or did not think it?   Watchin' her breathe through a hose in her nose   Whats this EKG machine, whats this shit on her toes?      It's 94, I'm 85 so I'm spooked as can be   I'm prayin' and I'm askin' why he do this to me?   See, I used to hold you in the palm of my hand   And just to see you pull through, shit I knew you'd pull through      (You)   Don't you know I'd die for you?   I'd lay down my life for you   (I would die for you)   Don't you know I'd die for you?   I'd lay down my life for you   (I would die for you)      March the 2nd, 1999   The year and the date I got my little mine   I guess I felt how my father felt and his father felt   And his father must have felt to see his self      It's like a little me in the flesh   He got my blood and my heart in his chest   Needless to say man I love him to death   Teach him if he disrespect me, I'm a love him till death      Left to go outta town right after he was born   Got a record deal, three months later daddy was gone   Its like I'm tryin' to raise him over the phone   He barely know my face when he see it but he know my tone      I'm up at night like do he know who his daddy is   I'm real close to sayin', "Fuck the showbiz!"   But when I hear him call his daddy now   And when I hear him tell his friends   "I wanna be just like my daddy now"      Hope he forgive me for the sacrifice   So he can have a better life than I had      (You)   Don't you know I'd die for you?   I'd lay down my life for you   (I would die for you)   Don't you know I'd die for you?   I'd lay down my life for you   (I would die for you)      Don't you know I'd die for you?   I'd lay down my life for you   (I would die for you)   Don't you know I'd die for you?   I'd lay down my life for you   (I would die for you)