Can You Hear Me? by Gemini Genesis Lyrics
Verse 1
I keep trying to remember how I saw you as my idol
How anytime you'd go out, I'd ask mom can I go?
It seemed you knew it all from the ins of playing ball
To every player's stats who was posted on your wall
You had a booklet filled with cards & after every game?
You'd cover up the bottoms till I memorized their names
First album you played me was 36 Chambers
Man I had to have been the coolest damn 1st grader
Grammar school walks, pit stops at la bodega
Then rushing home from school to try to beat you at Sega
Five years my elder, I was always in your shadow
I know you wanted a brother but a girl is what mom had so
You did your best to teach me every single thing you knew
Little did you know I always tried to be like you
Even after witnessing all the dirt you had to do
Just never thought that when I grew, you'd leave me heartbroken too
That's why I'm asking
Hook
Verse 2
Couple of years have passed by since the last time we spoke
I try & try to reach out but it just ends up being a joke
Cause you see nothing wrong with the way you're living life
So you block my number again, digging deeper with that knife
All I've done was try to help & all I got in return
Was you saying you could handle everything by yourself
But all I've seen for 10 years is you drowning in that liqour
Watching your soul disappear, wishing someone would interfere
Meanwhile, I'm over here in tears, reminiscing on the past
Going through these photos, thinking how much time has passed
Analyzing both our lives & everything we've surpassed
Still tryna figure out how you got stuck on your path
I'm exhausted-
Constantly find myself picking up my heart's pieces tryna quiet your demons
So that maybe one day I can again see my nieces
But you gotta find your way cause it's harder every day
So I'm wondering
Hook
Verse 3
I was there when you broke down, when you had nothing left
Your baby's mom overdosed on your bathroom floor
Heroine committed theft, snatching her last breath
Just a couple weeks later you fucking a bitch who was addicted to meth
A friend of your ex no less
Shortly after she was pregnant; that's how you mourned her death?
You could call yourself a man cause you claim to have provided
But what man gives up his rights to his first born son? You're blinded
You don't know the kind of pain you've inflicted on me
How can you be 35 living a lie, looking yourself in the eye & not try to swallow your pride & strive to keep this relationship alive?
I don't know who you've become & I say that with pain
I see your youngings growing, knowing you don't mention my name
You turned your back on family for that bitch you call a woman
So don't dare hit my phone once you see you saved what you shouldn't
Fuck asking
Hook
I keep trying to remember how I saw you as my idol
How anytime you'd go out, I'd ask mom can I go?
It seemed you knew it all from the ins of playing ball
To every player's stats who was posted on your wall
You had a booklet filled with cards & after every game?
You'd cover up the bottoms till I memorized their names
First album you played me was 36 Chambers
Man I had to have been the coolest damn 1st grader
Grammar school walks, pit stops at la bodega
Then rushing home from school to try to beat you at Sega
Five years my elder, I was always in your shadow
I know you wanted a brother but a girl is what mom had so
You did your best to teach me every single thing you knew
Little did you know I always tried to be like you
Even after witnessing all the dirt you had to do
Just never thought that when I grew, you'd leave me heartbroken too
That's why I'm asking
Hook
Verse 2
Couple of years have passed by since the last time we spoke
I try & try to reach out but it just ends up being a joke
Cause you see nothing wrong with the way you're living life
So you block my number again, digging deeper with that knife
All I've done was try to help & all I got in return
Was you saying you could handle everything by yourself
But all I've seen for 10 years is you drowning in that liqour
Watching your soul disappear, wishing someone would interfere
Meanwhile, I'm over here in tears, reminiscing on the past
Going through these photos, thinking how much time has passed
Analyzing both our lives & everything we've surpassed
Still tryna figure out how you got stuck on your path
I'm exhausted-
Constantly find myself picking up my heart's pieces tryna quiet your demons
So that maybe one day I can again see my nieces
But you gotta find your way cause it's harder every day
So I'm wondering
Hook
Verse 3
I was there when you broke down, when you had nothing left
Your baby's mom overdosed on your bathroom floor
Heroine committed theft, snatching her last breath
Just a couple weeks later you fucking a bitch who was addicted to meth
A friend of your ex no less
Shortly after she was pregnant; that's how you mourned her death?
You could call yourself a man cause you claim to have provided
But what man gives up his rights to his first born son? You're blinded
You don't know the kind of pain you've inflicted on me
How can you be 35 living a lie, looking yourself in the eye & not try to swallow your pride & strive to keep this relationship alive?
I don't know who you've become & I say that with pain
I see your youngings growing, knowing you don't mention my name
You turned your back on family for that bitch you call a woman
So don't dare hit my phone once you see you saved what you shouldn't
Fuck asking
Hook