when will u love me

, uh, i wonder, will they ever love me?, will they ever?, will they ever care?, when? when?, maybe after i'm dead and gone they'll get along, then they'll look back and see things that i said in my song, hope i did enough right that it deaded my wrong, if i was to die tonight, i don't know where i'm goin, heaven or hell, i don't think the reverend could tell, he see i'm addicted but what started as medicine failed, and left me to deal with a chemical dependency, he act like he god with his subliminal supremacy, talkin like if i don't get straight, then he could seal my fate, wait - you could seal a fate but you can't rehabilitate?, so now on sundays i be right here on my perch, i sit across the street and just stare at the church and it hurt, i figure maybe they'll love me in my afterlife, in retrospect they might recognize what i sacrificed, for now a nigga here with his head hangin, askin life and hip-hop the same dang question, when will you love me?, today, tomorrow, right now, when will you love me?, ohhh fall for me somehow!, when will you love me?, so pardon my curiosity, when will you love me?, when when uh, uh, uh, i know a young man who's becomin a gun man, raised by a single mother who main concern was a suntan, and goin on vacation whenever the invitation was presented, listen, you'll comprehend this in a minute, see as a minor he had a dream of bein athletic, she said she would sign him up for sports but she ass-betted, so he got into books, but even that was overlooked, yet all he wanted was love from the one woman that's s'posed to put, him above everything, she was too busy with niggaz had fakin with wedding ring, somethin she had never dreamed 'bout to transpire, the street took control of his soul, now her only son's a ghetto vampire, he out late stealin and dealin front of the corner store, wasn't long before the boys up the way had wanted a war, caught him, put the gun to his jaw, then the last thing you seen before the flash was his mom, his last thought, uhh, uh-huh, check, sometimes all it takes is love, for us to rise up above, survive just because, you'll be surprised what you're deprived of, when you deprive others of love, demise is a must, the heart can't breathe, the soul can't carry on, it's hard to succeed, the roles keep addin on, if you love somebody you should show 'em while they still here, tomorrow they could be dead or askin you from a wheelchair, uhh, rich kidd, thank you, the beautiful andreena mill, saigon, truest, the truest, good guy, gang, greatest, story, never, ever, told