My little brother and I were talking about my childhood sweetheart... Told him I had some songs that reminded me of her that made me cry. He said he knew one that would definitely make me cry. It happens almost everytime I hear this song. If you see this my love, stay well and safe. Thanks for the time we had.
I easily remember my days being 15-18 constantly listening and searching for underground all night. I’m 28 now with two kids who also listen to my music 😌
It's scary how similar our paths have been linked to this music. I have two boys and just turned 29. I spent my high school years searching for all the underground I could get.
@@user-vo1jg8bs9w I'm sorry for your loss man . I understand how bad it hurts and truthfully a person never will get over something that traumatic happening in their life just take it day for day and try to think about all the positive moments you and her had and try to live the best you can in her honor .
Damn, hearing this track I can't breathe. Used to connect with a childhood girlfriend over this song all the time. She's gone now...miss her everyday though...
First time I heard this was around 2014 and I always skipped it when I would replay the album. It’s just too heartbreaking no matter how many times I hear this
I hadn’t heard this song since 2015, I had forgotten how the song goes, felt like I was rediscovering it I got a sad feeling before I reached the end and now i remember why
This shit hit me harder than dance with the devil omg Immortal Technique is truly one of if not the best storyteller to ever exist in the entire rap game, my first experience with him was obviously when I heard dance with the devil in 2017 when I was in the 7th grade and man my friend put me onto it and I remember distinctly how I felt shocked, almost disgusted and close to tears and I said to my friends there will never be a song that will move me more than this one but damn was I wrong maddest of respect to immortal technique he truly is a master storyteller lyricist and MC of the rap game.
@@tomjones6297 harder yes but wouldn’t make a grown man cry the same way. I’m cold hard all the same after many years so hearing some story about some low life dancing with the devil doesn’t cause the same reaction.
@@TheKingsaint504 maybe cause you never danced with the devil yourself. But regardless you make a good point. I can’t wait till my boy gets older and I can show him real music!
This hurts even more than dance with the devil. You are literally the best story telling lyricist among all through history. Real shit. Edit: LOOK DAD I'M FAMOUS!!
Damn, this song still crushes me. At 40, it just hits a bit different than it did almost 20 years ago now. Still has me driving with tears rolling down my face but I feel each one so much harder. Lol... Life really can be so beautiful and tragic.
Fr havnt heard this song for about that long, til today an wow, very powerful, takes me back, but yea it’s a different understand I have as an adult and being in a serious relationship with someone I love very much, timeless music
Thanks to Shane granley back in Kachina Group Home i was 14 when he showed me this song even though we didnt like each other we sat in peace listening to this on his white xbox 360.
Tech is beyond hiphop itself , not fanboying him but I mean his commitments , character , interviews , actions etc ... lead you to another state of mind . And in that point either you make things go forward or you reloop your shitty life another fucking time. Respect
I swear on everything I love that nobody is able to pull emotions out of you like Immortal Technique 💯 This and Dance with the Devil will always be in my memory
This song is exactly how I've felt about this one girl I know, the way he describes her, from the appearance, the demeanor, her goals and purity, her beauty is perfection. I love this song. It inspires so much within. I've known her for about 2 years now and that feeling still hasn't faded. Not one bit.
@Refik Kozlic "Obnoxious" is one of my favorite songs of all time "Dance with the devil" is a crazy Story, and very sad Theres a song called "The 3rd world" that is amazing But seriously listen to his whole album's, you'll find some gems for sure Revolutionary 1 Revolutionary 2 The 3rd world The Martyr
All the way from the Mother land South Africa this album got me through the hard times at college I'm a working average joe still here Technique I still see you dawg the struggle continues thanks for real music.
I haven't heard this song in probably 15 or so years. Used to listen to it alot back then. I rapped along with the song and got most of the lyrics. I found myself giving mental and emotional damage as i pictured everything as it was going along. I felt sorrow, despair, pain, hate and depression. After the song finished, it took me about 2 or 3 minutes to get back to "myself". The story telling is insane.
I remember when I used to listen to this song as a boy and thought I was destined to encounter a love like this, but I never got lucky enough to, maybe on the next go around. She’s like a hood angel that everyone was always waiting for haha.
@@kadeelacayo4806 that when i heard of him. homey gave me a cd-r that had what were his greatest hits up to that point. hilights from pt1, pt2, and bin laden too
Ahh those times, last year at High school. I kinda grew up on the hard-rock stuff via my dad . ‘Maiden, Metallica, Alice in Chains , Anthrax and so on. But round 03’ I started really digging all the Immortal , House of pain, cypress hill Eminem , 50 cent shit and bought all the cd’s. Very quickly all I listened to was HipHop baby ;) still revolutionary vol . 2 prolly the best fuckin’ hiphop album I ever listened to . Every year I need to play to it at least once .
Ironically. He doesn't have any other songs that had the same feeling of this one. He struck lightning in a bottle with this one . His other music is amazing on its own right , I feel like he only wanted 1 song like this on his catalog. So he created that 1 Masterpiece .
My Best Friend/1st Real Love Showed Me This Song. I Fell In Love With It And Now He's Gone. Everytime I Hear This, You Come To Mind, And Brings Me A Tear. Wherever You Are... I Miss You, I Love You...Devon P. 🖤💯
I have only just started listening to you IT and you have changed my life instantly WOW!!!! I feel like I have been woken from a musical coma and come into the light-GOOSEBUMPS Soooooooooooooo much love and respect from UK XXXXX
I thought that this track hit me hard when first hearing it 12 years ago. Three years ago one of the women I loved the most was murdered. The tears and pain I was holding in came out listening to this not much longer after she died. Indeed, you never know💯💯💯
Contemplated taking my life to this sign today a lot had the gun jn my hand. the healing process hurts and it can be a lot when you lose some of the only people who loved you. Wanted peace and love and got a world of pain
Man you truly are one of the best lyricists ever. This song still hits me so hard even grown up now. I remember being so stressed and lost in my feelings when my wife was in the hospital. Makes me cry like a baby hearing this song and knowing tomorrow is never promised. I hope I never lose her anytime soon, but when I do, this will be playing
She was on her way to becoming a college graduate Wouldn't even stop to talk to the average kid The type of Latina I'd sit and contemplate marriage with Fuck the horse and carriage shit, her love was never for hire Disciplined, intellectual beauty's what I desire Flyer than Salma Hayek or Jennifer Lopez Everyone told me, kicking it to her was hopeless At first I just thought, she didn't mess with broke kids The thug niggas always talking about, how they smoke kids But the rich-sniff-coke kids got no play "I'm not even interested, " is what her body language would say Everyone around the way, gave up trying to get in it It didn't matter how good your game was, she wasn't with it On the block, bitches was jealous, but wouldn't admit it Talk shit, and deny to everyone that they did it Cause they regretted the long list of niggas that they let hit it And no one ever gave them shit except McDonald's and did-dick Smoking weed with thoughts of envy, whenever they lit it She spoke intelligently and they bit it, always trying to copy But when they tried to use her vocab they sounded sloppy She had a style, all her own, respectful and pure I was sick in the head for her, and there wasn't a cure Don't you know that, time waits for no man My fate, it's all planned I'm blessed just to know you I've loved and I've lost just to hold you all night Can't find, a reason why God came, between you and I If I had the chance again, I'd never let you go Hold tight to your love, cause you never know Her eyes are brown and beautiful, yet empty and sad I used to talk to her occasionally, and she was glad That I wasn't just another nigga trying to get in it So every now and then we'd stop and talk for a minute I didn't have a gimmick so the minutes turned to hours On her birthday, I gave her a poem with flowers Then I took her out to dinner after her cousin's baby shower We talked about, power to the people and such We spent more time together but it was never enough I never tried to sneak a touch, or even cop a feel I was too interested, in keeping it real Perfectly honest and complete, she would always call me "cariño" And never Technique, bought me a new book to read every 2 or 3 weeks Forever changing the expression of my thoughts when I speak It was because of her, I even deaded all of my freaks She convinced me, to stop hanging out on the streets To stop robbing and stealing, from people like you Instead I took her out to the Apollo and the Bronx Zoo Museo del Barrio and the Metropolitan too Got to the point when I was either with her or my crew So I decided one day, to tell her my feelings was true I couldn't live without her so I told her, facing my fears But honey's only response, was a face full of tears She could only sob hysterically, holding me tight I tried to speak, but she wouldn't stop until I left sight I felt like a moth who got himself too close to the light Except I didn't burn, I turned cold after that night Don't you know that, time waits for no man My fate, it's all planned I'm blessed just to know you I've loved and I've lost just to hold you all night Can't find, a reason why God came, between you and I If I had the chance again, I'd never let you go Hold tight to your love, cause you never know I went on with my life, college and my career Ended up locked up like an animal for a year Where the C.O.'s talk to you like they were the overseer Then I got sent to the hole, when my exit was near At night in my cell, I'd close my eyes and I'd see her Hold her close in my dreams, but when I woke she disappeared Just an empty cell until the state gave me parole in the summer Came back, in tact and on track But the fact of the matter, is I still felt cold Even after my mother, hugged me, crying at home My real niggas would catch me thinking, outta my zone Fucking lots of different women, but I still felt alone Relatively well-known around the New York underground But I kept thinking of her and how we used to be down The sound of her voice, and the beautiful smell of her hair Though gone physically, somehow it was still there I had to do something, because the shit was too much to bear So I went and visited the building where she used to live The world looks a lot different after you do a bid The way your life done changed While primitive minds are still stuck in the same game Like her cousin who was on the corner slanging cocaine Stepped in the lobby and tapped the button next to her last name Her mom buzzed me up and hugged me up, like a mother ought to But her facial expression changed, when I asked about her daughter Don't you know that, time waits for no man My fate, it's all planned I'm blessed just to know you I've loved and I've lost just to hold you all night Can't find, a reason why God came, between you and I If I had the chance again, I'd never let you go Hold tight to your love, cause you never know She told me that there was a note for me, that was left behind She had left it there waiting, for such a long time I was inclined to ask about it but she brought it up first I saw a tear swelling up in her eye, and then she cursed She told me where the letter was and I started thinking the worst Reversed my position, stepped over and opened the door And sure enough there was an envelope with my name on the floor "Nobody loves you more than me, cariño" is what the letter said "By the time you get to read this, I'll probably be dead But when you left in '97 a part of me went to Heaven I thank God at least I got to know what love really was But it hurt me, to see what true love really does Cause even though we never made love, you were all that there was It was because I loved you so much that I had to make you leave You made me doubt the way I thought, you made me want to believe And then I slipped up, and I let you get close to me It was hard to not be openly when people spoke to me This was not the way I thought my life was supposed to be Baby don't you see, I had a blood transfusion that left me with HIV Hope didn't exist for me since late in 1993 I died a virgin, I wish I could've given myself to you I cried in the hospital because there was no one else but you Promise that you'll meet me in paradise inevitably No matter what, I'll keep your love forever with me" What happened for the rest of the day is still a blur But I remember wishing that I was dead, instead of her She was buried on August 3rd The story ends without a sequel And now you know why Technique, don't fucking fall in love with people Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone
The "Character" of the woman he loves, is the strongest woman I can imagine. Ignoring lust, and keeping a death sentence to only herself, instead of spreading it. And yet, still open to forming spiritual and intellectual connections with people on a deep level. This story hit me hard, and I just heard it today. Cheers to you for creating music which forces the truth into the light, I think Tupac would be proud.
Enough to make a grown man cry... What a heartbreaking, lyrical masterpeace !!
That’s rap (Rhythm and poetry)
YOU DONT CARE FOR ME YOU DESERVE TO BURN IN HELL FOR THIS !
@@brianhoodyinteresting how even where nobody knows english it's still known as rap, regardless of the abbreviation
Thing is.
He's telling my story from a different continent 😢😢
@@clockbain ❤️
"I felt like a moth who got himself too close to the light
Except I didn't burn I turned cold after that night"
Makes me really think back to the old days when life was real
That’s fucked up that I was scrolling through the comments as the song was playing. And literally as I read this one, he spits the line 🤯🤯🤯
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I still come back to this. This is an actual Masterpiece
Agreed
Same...
i see u, bibi
Real?
S.
My little brother and I were talking about my childhood sweetheart... Told him I had some songs that reminded me of her that made me cry. He said he knew one that would definitely make me cry. It happens almost everytime I hear this song. If you see this my love, stay well and safe. Thanks for the time we had.
“She gave me a new book to read every 2 or 3 weeks, forever changing the expression of my thoughts when I speak.” This line is so romantic to me.
He signed some rare Nikes of mine. I called them, "Immortal TechNikes
Lol that's funny
Damn that's cool
Thats awsome lol
That's fire
Niiice
I easily remember my days being 15-18 constantly listening and searching for underground all night. I’m 28 now with two kids who also listen to my music 😌
It's scary how similar our paths have been linked to this music. I have two boys and just turned 29. I spent my high school years searching for all the underground I could get.
Bro I'm 17 now just discovering this stuff as I'm searching for underdround stuff at half past 9 at night...
And im 21 and i discovered these song right now
At 9 am 5/5/2022
Yeah pass it on to your kids because there's a lot of real shitty hip hop out there on the radio that have the nerve to even call themselves Hip Hop .
this is me rn, only 14 rn, immortal technique is such a good find
The fact that the music industry largely ignores lyricists of Technique’s caliber in favor of mumble rappers is a crime against humanity
whats popular is always more profitable
@@GravityPoint its a good filter. ive met a lot of people who'd call this music trash, simply because they've never heard of it. buffoons.
Lost my girl to suicide 8 years ago. I feel this too much. Miss you every day.
But I remember wishing that I was dead, instead of her.
@@user-vo1jg8bs9w I'm sorry for your loss man . I understand how bad it hurts and truthfully a person never will get over something that traumatic happening in their life just take it day for day and try to think about all the positive moments you and her had and try to live the best you can in her honor .
Thank you
Keep your head up man, life is dirty. Praying for you brotha stay strong!
Sorry for your loss g lost my best friend still hurts
Damn, hearing this track I can't breathe. Used to connect with a childhood girlfriend over this song all the time. She's gone now...miss her everyday though...
Gone as in dead?
I feel that man, opiates swept thru my area with a vengeance. Her and most my homies are gone. Feels weird being one of the last still standing.
@@oscarperez5539Yeah, what? Please elaborate
Ayo
❤❤❤❤
“And now you know why technique don’t fucking fall in love with people” hits so fucking hard
First time I heard this was around 2014 and I always skipped it when I would replay the album. It’s just too heartbreaking no matter how many times I hear this
I know that feeling! It's an outstanding song but so painful you don't want to listen to it by default
That's literally me with Dance with the Devil too. Smh, mans is TOOOO good of a story teller
I hadn’t heard this song since 2015, I had forgotten how the song goes, felt like I was rediscovering it I got a sad feeling before I reached the end and now i remember why
This shit hit me harder than dance with the devil omg
Immortal Technique is truly one of if not the best storyteller to ever exist in the entire rap game, my first experience with him was obviously when I heard dance with the devil in 2017 when I was in the 7th grade and man my friend put me onto it and I remember distinctly how I felt shocked, almost disgusted and close to tears and I said to my friends there will never be a song that will move me more than this one but damn was I wrong maddest of respect to immortal technique he truly is a master storyteller lyricist and MC of the rap game.
Nah dance with devil is harder come on now
@@tomjones6297 harder yes but wouldn’t make a grown man cry the same way. I’m cold hard all the same after many years so hearing some story about some low life dancing with the devil doesn’t cause the same reaction.
@@TheKingsaint504 maybe cause you never danced with the devil yourself. But regardless you make a good point. I can’t wait till my boy gets older and I can show him real music!
Facts, id say the two songs have 2 different vibes. Both are dark, one more sad/sad, one more evil/sad
👎🫶🤲🙌🦶🦻🦻👃👂🦵🦿🦾💪👏🤜🤛🤝🤲"👐" & 666.♥️
I'm a 15 year old fan and I just wanted to say this is better than most stuff on the radio.
ur 15 years old listening to radio, or been a fan for 15 years?
Duh
Hands down one of the deepest songs ever
You never really know what you got until it’s gone. 🕊
This hurts even more than dance with the devil. You are literally the best story telling lyricist among all through history. Real shit.
Edit: LOOK DAD I'M FAMOUS!!
truth man
Extremely underrated
how good is realistic flavour tho
He's top 3 story tellers, amongst the best but not best. Nas - rewind was something else as a story rapped backwards.
Nas???
Damn, this song still crushes me. At 40, it just hits a bit different than it did almost 20 years ago now. Still has me driving with tears rolling down my face but I feel each one so much harder. Lol... Life really can be so beautiful and tragic.
Fr havnt heard this song for about that long, til today an wow, very powerful, takes me back, but yea it’s a different understand I have as an adult and being in a serious relationship with someone I love very much, timeless music
One of my favorite storytelling songs of all time… Que viva Peru !!! Carajo!!!!!! 🇵🇪
Thanks to Shane granley back in Kachina Group Home i was 14 when he showed me this song even though we didnt like each other we sat in peace listening to this on his white xbox 360.
Mad lad.
1xw8q
This song is Immortal 2024
2024 ! Who still listening!
Matthew Ryan Wallace. ask around. We're fighting.
A true lyricist
Fucking crazy shit I actually went through something like it just recently I'm 33 heard this back in the day
Always listening
Exuce me still drifting it till 2025
My highschool bf introduced me to Immortal Technique. I still come back to listen every now and then, 16 years later.
Tech is beyond hiphop itself , not fanboying him but I mean his commitments , character , interviews , actions etc ... lead you to another state of mind . And in that point either you make things go forward or you reloop your shitty life another fucking time.
Respect
you are delusional
When understand the lyrics you will cry with this song
This is a Masterpeace!!!!!!!!
Discovered Immortal Technique a few months ago, and I can’t stop listening to his music. Early 2000’s music hit different. He’s good at what he does.
Better late than never. 🫡Discovered Technique back in 2007 , the rest isn’t just history ~ His music changed my entire way of thinking / life.
@@Capsule71420 Hundred bro, it's funny that most of my intelligence comes through music. Immortal Technique is a legend in the rap game imo
I swear on everything I love that nobody is able to pull emotions out of you like Immortal Technique 💯 This and Dance with the Devil will always be in my memory
This song is exactly how I've felt about this one girl I know, the way he describes her, from the appearance, the demeanor, her goals and purity, her beauty is perfection. I love this song. It inspires so much within. I've known her for about 2 years now and that feeling still hasn't faded. Not one bit.
“She had a style all her own respectful and pure” one of the many verses that speak volume!!🗣️🎶. One of the best lyricist of all time.
Im always bumpin this song everyday
Same
Did u bump it today
@@willmichaelkaldas9616 i did💯
Let me get your snap
@@loganthompson9927 bonk
Been listening to Immortal since 2011, Me and my friend would bump Technique until like 3 in the morning.
The feeling is mutual! Remembering the golden times, listening to immortal all through the night with my buddies during my college days.
Asteelo paparazzi This song will always make me cry
Facts 💯💯
That's crazy for me I found out about him in the pen...from a white boy! Lol been on him ever since. Facts
@Refik Kozlic "Obnoxious" is one of my favorite songs of all time
"Dance with the devil" is a crazy Story, and very sad
Theres a song called "The 3rd world" that is amazing
But seriously listen to his whole album's, you'll find some gems for sure
Revolutionary 1
Revolutionary 2
The 3rd world
The Martyr
All the way from the Mother land South Africa this album got me through the hard times at college I'm a working average joe still here Technique I still see you dawg the struggle continues thanks for real music.
I remember hearing this for the first time in 2006 when i was 13. Still invokes such crazy emotions 20 years later. Absolute lyrical masterpiece.
This part!
....how many tears i spend on this song.... thank you with all my heart....
from Italy, forever with love...
"go ask her bro the worst she can say is no!"
To late 😢
😭
I haven't heard this song in probably 15 or so years. Used to listen to it alot back then. I rapped along with the song and got most of the lyrics. I found myself giving mental and emotional damage as i pictured everything as it was going along. I felt sorrow, despair, pain, hate and depression. After the song finished, it took me about 2 or 3 minutes to get back to "myself".
The story telling is insane.
One of the greatest songs of all time still here in 2024 🔥 Immortal Technique is one of the 🐐 period
On God ❤ if spoken rap was a. Thing , this would be it
Man, im 25 years old and this song makes me cry every time, especially when he reads the letter
Rip his girl 🕊️, it’s crazy I randomly revisited this today , Aug 3rd 2024 . My blessings to you technique 🙏🏽
I remember when I used to listen to this song as a boy and thought I was destined to encounter a love like this, but I never got lucky enough to, maybe on the next go around. She’s like a hood angel that everyone was always waiting for haha.
Still the realest shit. I’ve been listening to this song for years and still get chills everytime I hear it
Remember hearing this back in 05. Had me catching all feelings
Finally someone who been listening for longer then 5/10 years . I did a report about him in high school in 04
same
@@kadeelacayo4806 that when i heard of him. homey gave me a cd-r that had what were his greatest hits up to that point. hilights from pt1, pt2, and bin laden too
Ahh those times, last year at High school. I kinda grew up on the hard-rock stuff via my dad . ‘Maiden, Metallica, Alice in Chains , Anthrax and so on. But round 03’ I started really digging all the Immortal , House of pain, cypress hill Eminem , 50 cent shit and bought all the cd’s. Very quickly all I listened to was HipHop baby ;) still revolutionary vol . 2 prolly the best fuckin’ hiphop album I ever listened to . Every year I need to play to it at least once .
Man i was born in 2005 and i just turned 17 and im listening to this
One of the best song from Immortal technique.
Brilliant storytelling.
One of the greatest story tellers and lyricist of my time! Much love and respect kid! Peace and blessings to you and yours Tech, Salute
" She had A style , all her own , respectful and pure
I was sick in the head for her and there wasn't a cure "
Will always love this song 😔😢🔥🔥🔥
Have you heard natural beauty from him? I'm sure you'd love that one too
He's on another categorie , talk about reaching people's hearts and stimulating people's minds :)
Crystal Garcia youre very beautiful😍😍
Still one of the greatest love stories in hip hop
Still makes me cry to this day, heartbreaking doesn't come close to describing this...🔥💯
This is the first time listening to this guy, now I feel like listening all his music.
Ironically. He doesn't have any other songs that had the same feeling of this one.
He struck lightning in a bottle with this one .
His other music is amazing on its own right , I feel like he only wanted 1 song like this on his catalog. So he created that 1 Masterpiece .
Oh boy you're in for a surprise................
i come back to this song every august 3rd to remind myself what true love really does. respect to immortal technique you a living legend
My Best Friend/1st Real Love Showed Me This Song. I Fell In Love With It And Now He's Gone. Everytime I Hear This, You Come To Mind, And Brings Me A Tear. Wherever You Are... I Miss You, I Love You...Devon P. 🖤💯
this song makes me feel bad about the girlfriend i lost that i had never had
Never gets old....such a good story teller
I used to have this song. I want the cd. Just brings me back to the day. These songs got us through so much. ❤ Wish i could meet him in person 😊
I have only just started listening to you IT and you have changed my life instantly WOW!!!! I feel like I have been woken from a musical coma and come into the light-GOOSEBUMPS Soooooooooooooo much love and respect from UK XXXXX
Welcome to the light sister🍀
its just so sad that the one person who changed your whole life will just vanish.. I just hope people I love would live forever
I thought that this track hit me hard when first hearing it 12 years ago. Three years ago one of the women I loved the most was murdered. The tears and pain I was holding in came out listening to this not much longer after she died.
Indeed, you never know💯💯💯
So sorry for your loss. May she rest in heaven & peace as a beautiful angel🙏🏾🌹❤
😭😭😭😭😭😭
Did they arrest the murderer?
@@AliKhan-ch4om He killed himself after he killed her
@@lawrencethompson3868 It's sad that he got away easily. May she rest in peace.
Probably the most emotional inducing song i have heard in my life , Mad Respect I.T
Contemplated taking my life to this sign today a lot had the gun jn my hand. the healing process hurts and it can be a lot when you lose some of the only people who loved you. Wanted peace and love and got a world of pain
Hope you're still around today dawg much love keep fighting!
This is such an underground classic I literally know every word! SOOO DEEP !
Remember closing my eyes and imagining a music video to this song while i listened from a ipod nano
This songs so beautifully written, the way you told the story but added such a touch to it that flows 🤍👌
Southpaw is a genius for all the good beats on this release!!! Big up
Wow. This song really rocked my world when I discovered it at like 15. Now I’m 31 and listening again, shit got me crying at the end
His songs have soul man
This song changed my life! I heard this song for the first time & it shook me to my core.
I miss song
This song well never get old EVER
one of my favorites. great story telling .
Man you truly are one of the best lyricists ever. This song still hits me so hard even grown up now. I remember being so stressed and lost in my feelings when my wife was in the hospital. Makes me cry like a baby hearing this song and knowing tomorrow is never promised. I hope I never lose her anytime soon, but when I do, this will be playing
Don't let her go
Heard this song only once. Made me tear up.
I listen to this when I really need to cry, but my emotions are stuck. Thanks for this music.
Hardest song of the century. Real shyt 💯
Technique is the GOAT fr
She was on her way to becoming a college graduate
Wouldn't even stop to talk to the average kid
The type of Latina I'd sit and contemplate marriage with
Fuck the horse and carriage shit, her love was never for hire
Disciplined, intellectual beauty's what I desire
Flyer than Salma Hayek or Jennifer Lopez
Everyone told me, kicking it to her was hopeless
At first I just thought, she didn't mess with broke kids
The thug niggas always talking about, how they smoke kids
But the rich-sniff-coke kids got no play
"I'm not even interested, " is what her body language would say
Everyone around the way, gave up trying to get in it
It didn't matter how good your game was, she wasn't with it
On the block, bitches was jealous, but wouldn't admit it
Talk shit, and deny to everyone that they did it
Cause they regretted the long list of niggas that they let hit it
And no one ever gave them shit except McDonald's and did-dick
Smoking weed with thoughts of envy, whenever they lit it
She spoke intelligently and they bit it, always trying to copy
But when they tried to use her vocab they sounded sloppy
She had a style, all her own, respectful and pure
I was sick in the head for her, and there wasn't a cure
Don't you know that, time waits for no man
My fate, it's all planned
I'm blessed just to know you
I've loved and I've lost just to hold you all night
Can't find, a reason why
God came, between you and I
If I had the chance again, I'd never let you go
Hold tight to your love, cause you never know
Her eyes are brown and beautiful, yet empty and sad
I used to talk to her occasionally, and she was glad
That I wasn't just another nigga trying to get in it
So every now and then we'd stop and talk for a minute
I didn't have a gimmick so the minutes turned to hours
On her birthday, I gave her a poem with flowers
Then I took her out to dinner after her cousin's baby shower
We talked about, power to the people and such
We spent more time together but it was never enough
I never tried to sneak a touch, or even cop a feel
I was too interested, in keeping it real
Perfectly honest and complete, she would always call me "cariño"
And never Technique, bought me a new book to read every 2 or 3 weeks
Forever changing the expression of my thoughts when I speak
It was because of her, I even deaded all of my freaks
She convinced me, to stop hanging out on the streets
To stop robbing and stealing, from people like you
Instead I took her out to the Apollo and the Bronx Zoo
Museo del Barrio and the Metropolitan too
Got to the point when I was either with her or my crew
So I decided one day, to tell her my feelings was true
I couldn't live without her so I told her, facing my fears
But honey's only response, was a face full of tears
She could only sob hysterically, holding me tight
I tried to speak, but she wouldn't stop until I left sight
I felt like a moth who got himself too close to the light
Except I didn't burn, I turned cold after that night
Don't you know that, time waits for no man
My fate, it's all planned
I'm blessed just to know you
I've loved and I've lost just to hold you all night
Can't find, a reason why
God came, between you and I
If I had the chance again, I'd never let you go
Hold tight to your love, cause you never know
I went on with my life, college and my career
Ended up locked up like an animal for a year
Where the C.O.'s talk to you like they were the overseer
Then I got sent to the hole, when my exit was near
At night in my cell, I'd close my eyes and I'd see her
Hold her close in my dreams, but when I woke she disappeared
Just an empty cell until the state gave me parole in the summer
Came back, in tact and on track
But the fact of the matter, is I still felt cold
Even after my mother, hugged me, crying at home
My real niggas would catch me thinking, outta my zone
Fucking lots of different women, but I still felt alone
Relatively well-known around the New York underground
But I kept thinking of her and how we used to be down
The sound of her voice, and the beautiful smell of her hair
Though gone physically, somehow it was still there
I had to do something, because the shit was too much to bear
So I went and visited the building where she used to live
The world looks a lot different after you do a bid
The way your life done changed
While primitive minds are still stuck in the same game
Like her cousin who was on the corner slanging cocaine
Stepped in the lobby and tapped the button next to her last name
Her mom buzzed me up and hugged me up, like a mother ought to
But her facial expression changed, when I asked about her daughter
Don't you know that, time waits for no man
My fate, it's all planned
I'm blessed just to know you
I've loved and I've lost just to hold you all night
Can't find, a reason why
God came, between you and I
If I had the chance again, I'd never let you go
Hold tight to your love, cause you never know
She told me that there was a note for me, that was left behind
She had left it there waiting, for such a long time
I was inclined to ask about it but she brought it up first
I saw a tear swelling up in her eye, and then she cursed
She told me where the letter was and I started thinking the worst
Reversed my position, stepped over and opened the door
And sure enough there was an envelope with my name on the floor
"Nobody loves you more than me, cariño" is what the letter said
"By the time you get to read this, I'll probably be dead
But when you left in '97 a part of me went to Heaven
I thank God at least I got to know what love really was
But it hurt me, to see what true love really does
Cause even though we never made love, you were all that there was
It was because I loved you so much that I had to make you leave
You made me doubt the way I thought, you made me want to believe
And then I slipped up, and I let you get close to me
It was hard to not be openly when people spoke to me
This was not the way I thought my life was supposed to be
Baby don't you see, I had a blood transfusion that left me with HIV
Hope didn't exist for me since late in 1993
I died a virgin, I wish I could've given myself to you
I cried in the hospital because there was no one else but you
Promise that you'll meet me in paradise inevitably
No matter what, I'll keep your love forever with me"
What happened for the rest of the day is still a blur
But I remember wishing that I was dead, instead of her
She was buried on August 3rd
The story ends without a sequel
And now you know why Technique, don't fucking fall in love with people
Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you
The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you
Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond
Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone
Appreciated🍀
Thank you.
Thank you
I remember when volume 1 and 2 came out , this was heavy for me as a young teen
I cried when I was in Highschool, and I cry now 10 years later. This story is timeless and tragically heartbreaking.
Amazing storytelling you killed it
Still one of my favorite songs, heartbreaking.
This song and dance with the devil are my favorite songs they touch my heart so hard he’s the best story teller all his songs are perfect an hit home
Not heard this since I was 17 ,13 years ago reminds me of college days
Immortal Technique emotional depth in songs is unmatched.
literally shed a tear while listening, damn son why this shit hit my soul so hard!!! Rip Medz
This song is a real beautiful story about how there are thing fate brings us and we can't ever imagine
This is a classic, go sleep and comeback listen it again
Might just be the best song ever honestly
This is my number 1 favorite song
This song always brings the tears out
Art in its truest form
Still cry everytime
This song saved my life back in the day. Thank God for immortal technique 🙌
I cry when I listen to this song , so emotional and deep
One of the realest rappers ever.
this is by far the most emotional and sad song ive ever heard in my life.
This is one of those songs that lets you know you aint a total monster and fucked up beyond all recall when it brings tears to your eyes.
20 years later this album still yanks my heart out
October 2023. I'm still jamming to this classic 😁👍
The "Character" of the woman he loves, is the strongest woman I can imagine. Ignoring lust, and keeping a death sentence to only herself, instead of spreading it. And yet, still open to forming spiritual and intellectual connections with people on a deep level. This story hit me hard, and I just heard it today. Cheers to you for creating music which forces the truth into the light, I think Tupac would be proud.
My favourite Track by IT 🔥 A masterpiece by one of the most underrated Rappers of all times
This guy never misses the ❤️😮
Masterpiece Is An Understatement !
Just now heard this somehow and cried some real tears for the first time in a good while