December 15th Lyrics

I've got to learn to handle you becoming a memory, remember me?

You died we put you up on the Christmas tree

Your embers blown away but yo you aren't gone officially

Because there'll never be a day where you aren't part of my history

I almost crashed the whip the day I found out

Round about six or maybe later at the towns mouth I drowned out

Everything around me and I felt a piece die

Because I told you if I knew just what to do then that's a lie

I never saw you enough, sure I saw you and stuff

But that was years ago when I was barely tall as a shrub

When I got older I got colder. so I got off your shoulders

And left you back in time to only stay where the cold is

I can't get you back now, you won't meet my kids

Great grandad but only for a month and a bit

I know our final conversation was lit, that's consolation

'Cause a month later homie that's it, you hit the station, uh

(And they'll never you know you, you'll just be a name to them)

Your funeral procession, with nana in tears

You should have been the one to hit way longer than eighty years

And I was too scared to get up and said something

Even though I want them to know that you meant something to me

We found footage of you rescuing people in '63

Found footage of you resting with my sister and me

Found pictures of you spending time with the family

We all know that we'll be gone but we never plan to be

You handed me an opportunity

Although you never asked it

I hope that I'm the one you wished to carry your casket

You weren't heavy by the end but I gripped so tight

I guess that cancer in the end was like your Kryptonite

So now these stanzas are a way for me to sit those nights through

And think about the ways that I could never be like you

We had some standup people in our family

Now it's only me attracted to my own gravity

Damned to be reclused from the tree with no excuses to see

And man we'll never speak again until our funerals will be

I can't believe it takes that for us to stay together

Back in '03 all we ever did was play together

But I guess that's how it goes when you grow

Time is moving slowly for days and then it goes

I really wanna proceed but I already know

I'm doing this again in five years, ten at most

Cherish your people while they're around

'Cause one day they'll never be able to make a sound

To tell you that they love you back or what they think about your raps

But time I think I'm out of that so now I give the flowers back

Ian had the power to keep the Tribbles together

Even though the link is gone I vow we won't be severed

Your name is carried on through my younger bro forever

And everyone who knows you can say the know a legend

So thank you for the show, reverend

It's time to go, bless it

Word up to everyone who came to see this progressin'

I got one final thing to say to you, it might sound shitty

But you're the only one who really got to Leave The City, uh