Apologies first and foremost   It's been years since I've called or wrote   It's funny how I ignore   The most vital thinking that we were always close   Lord knows that I never meant to forget   But my sense of sentiment, is inept   You were right it's evidential   I've been better with my instrumentals than friends   Here I am again, never learn   Can't return a call, show concern   At times I think I've changed, then again   I'm still writing letters that I never send   Can't make amends, can't reverse   All I got is pencils, pens and a verse   You deserve the years I disappeared   Not a song, it's been...         So long since I been without you   Remember me and you were like family?   No song could ever amount to   The memories that we had, can we   Hold on though this time is borrowed?   I'm away where you can’t always stay   Go on though I cannot follow   But I swear you’ll never hear me say   "So long."      I know it's a bit late to notice it   But today I flipped this in my photo picks   And there was one with me and you laughing   Our inside jokes were everlasting   Man you had to see it we had the biggest grins   Damn, we were the best of friends   Now wishing we could say it in the present tense   But we begin every sentence with "Remember when..."   And yeah, we had a blast but what about now?   The only time we chat is when I’m in town   Friends when convenient, I can't believe it   We were tight since back when Mike was singing "Beat It"   I mean it how could it come to this   Out of everyone I lost, of one I miss   Is you and only you, you were the truest comrade a homie knew   It's been...         So long since I been without you   Remember me and you were like family?   No song could ever amount to   The memories that we had, can we   Hold on though this time is borrowed?   And I'm away where you can’t always stay   Go on though I cannot follow   But I swear you’ll never hear me say   "So long."         Hard to top a simple rule, not a single thought   Though my mind’s aloof, and these shingles got but a single truth   That my life just stops when I'm missing you   Given to melancholy other days, staring at the skyline of the bay   Thought I saw your silhouette, felt the tears ‘cause I know that you’ve been dead for seven years      Some wounds will never heal, when we realize that I'm still here   No matter what the burden that happened in the past   It’s sad to let it burn the friendship that we had so let’s   Value what we have left and just forget all of the past debts   Though I’ve done some things that I can’t excuse   I hope you understand I'm still the man you knew   But thank you, I don’t say yet enough but thank you   I know it’s not enough to thank you but I'm grateful   No living creation could ever replace you   So I pray you and I will never stray to a place too far away to erase you   Though it’s painful I remain strong   I'll stay faithful even though it’s been...         So long since I been without you   Remember me and you were like family?   No song could ever amount to   The memories that we had, can we   Hold on though this time is borrowed?   And I'm away where you can’t always stay   Go on though I cannot follow   But I swear you’ll never hear me say   "So long."         Apologies first and foremost   I gotta stop talking to your    Ghost   But you keep talking to me   These dreams that got me walking in my sleep   Please stop reminding me, can’t subtract it,    Flashbacks did the accident   Broken glass, car window, broken as you fall into comatose   So I pray Father, Son, and Holy Ghost   Will you say the only that matters most is in vain   The more you hold close the more it fades   The more it replays, more a curse   Here I am again, with my verses   You deserve the years I disappeared   Not a song, it’s been...         So long since I been without you   Remember me and you were like family?   No song could ever amount to   The memories that we had, can we   Hold on though this time is borrowed?   And I'm away where you can’t always stay   Go on though I cannot follow   But I swear you’ll never hear me say   "So long."