[ti:How Could You Leave Us] [ar:NF] [al:Therapy Session] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]How Could You Leave Us - NF [00:05.41]Written by:Tommee Profitt/Nate Feuerstein [00:10.82]How could you leave so unexpected [00:14.22] [00:17.03]We waited we waited [00:20.73] [00:22.92]For you but you just left us [00:26.75] [00:28.61]We needed you I needed you [00:32.40] [00:34.68]Yo I don't know what it's like to be addicted to pills [00:37.16]But I do know what it's like to be a witness it kills [00:39.93]Mama told me she loved me I'm thinkin' this isn't real [00:42.87]I think of you when I get a whiff of that cigarette smell yeah [00:45.85] [00:46.88]Welcome to the bottom of hell [00:48.65]They say pain is a prison let me out of my cell [00:51.49]You say you proud of me but you don't know me that well [00:54.20]Sit in my room tears running down my face and I yell [00:57.32]Into my pillowcases you say you coming to get us [00:59.92]Then call' em a minute later just to tell us you not I'm humiliated [01:03.58]I'm in a room with a parent that I don't barely know [01:06.17]Some lady in the corner watching us while she's taking notes [01:09.17]I don't get it mom don't you want to watch your babies grow [01:12.03]I guess pills are more important all you have to say is no [01:15.04]But you won't do it will you [01:16.50]You gon' keep popping 'til those pills kill you [01:18.55]I know you're gone but I can still feel you [01:20.43] [01:24.74]Why would you leave us why would you leave us here [01:29.28] [01:30.54]How could you leave us here [01:33.33] [01:34.85]How could you leave us why would you leave us oh [01:39.24] [01:42.99]Hey [01:43.38] [01:45.90]I got this picture in my room and it kills me [01:48.53]But I don't need a picture of my mom I need the real thing [01:51.43]Now a relationship is something we won't ever have [01:54.16]Why do I feel like I lost something that I never had [01:57.12]You should have been there when I graduated [01:59.26]Told me you loved me and congratulations instead you left us at the window waiting [02:03.69]Where you at mom [02:04.70] [02:05.26]We're too young to understand where you at huh [02:07.41] [02:08.01]Yeah I know them drugs have got you held captive [02:10.36] [02:10.94]I can see it in your eyes they got your mind captured [02:13.57]Some say it's fun to get the high but I am not laughing [02:15.92] [02:16.59]And what you don't realize and what you not graspin' [02:18.81] [02:19.55]That I was nothing but a kid who couldn't understand it [02:22.35]I ain't gon' say that I forgive you' cause it hasn't happened [02:25.07]I thought that maybe I'd feel better as time passes [02:27.36] [02:28.19]If you really cared for me then where you at then [02:30.64] [02:33.32]Why would you leave us why would you leave us here [02:38.45] [02:39.17]How could you leave us here [02:41.10] [02:43.42]How could you leave us why would you leave us oh [02:48.96] [02:51.56]Hey [02:51.89] [02:54.13]Our last conversation you and I sat in the living room [02:57.16]Talking 'bout my music and I brought you some to listen to [02:59.54] [03:00.22]You started cryin' telling me this isn't you [03:02.67]A couple weeks later guess you were singing' a different tune [03:05.19] [03:05.79]You took them pills for the last time didn't you [03:08.53]They took you from us once I guess they came back to finish you [03:11.28]Cryin' my eyes out in the studio is difficult [03:13.55] [03:14.10]Music is the only place that I can go to speak to you [03:16.92]It took everything inside of me not to scream at your funeral [03:19.41] [03:19.92]Sittin' in my chair that person talking was pitiful [03:22.35]I wish you were here mama but every time I picture you [03:25.43]All I feel is pain I hate the way I remember you [03:28.35]They found you on the floor I could tell you felt hollow [03:31.19]Gave everything you had plus your life to them pill bottles [03:34.09]You gave everything you had plus your life to them pill bottles [03:37.02]Don't know if you hear me or not but if you're still watching ma [03:40.64] [03:41.88]Why would you leave us why would you leave us here [03:47.98]How could you leave us here [03:49.87] [03:52.02]How could you leave us why would you leave us oh [03:56.62] [04:00.25]Hey [04:00.65] [04:10.74]Sometimes I think about like [04:11.90] [04:14.27]Sometimes I think about things like you know [04:18.11] [04:18.81]When I'd have kids I'm like [04:20.18] [04:27.33]You won't be there you know [04:29.16]You won't be there for any of that [04:30.63] [04:40.38]And I'll never get to see you again [04:41.68] [04:44.79]Sometimes I wish I would've just called you [04:46.19] [04:47.34]I wish I would have just picked up the phone [04:48.96] [04:50.17]Wish you were here [04:50.91] [04:52.66]I mean you should of been there for us [04:54.02] [04:55.34]You should have been here [04:56.21] [04:58.75]Them pills got you right [04:59.58] [05:03.13]Them pills got you right [05:04.29] [05:11.19]I wish you were here