higher yet my love, the water is rising
up on the counter my love, grab a hold tightly —
don’t you let go my dear, I can’t let you die
Til your old as I, as old as I, old as I
look both ways my dear, don’t trip on your laces
But here you lie shot in your sleep by a bullet gone stray
you gave me your blessing, to keep you alive til ur
old as I, as old as I, as old as I …
I’ll take all your baggage, and I’ll give you mine,
For the passage of the time, for the distance as old as i, as old as I … as old as I
Down on the courts in Bed Stuy
A legend rose from the streets
Just a poor kid with no use for what the others called gravity
People came from all around to see young connie Hawkins do his thing
When the hawk went up against the best at Rucker park
oh how the choir would sing
High flying kid do you know what you just did
Is It just a dream love, is it just a dream love, steady you go
Hey pa I think I’m gonna make it, I’m going away on a one way ticket
Is it just a dream love, is it just a dream love, steady you go
round here those are always sinking, folks will say connie what were you thinking
He lead the team in Highschool he never once got beat two years in a row
Got a scholarship to Iowa and knew that he had to go
he sent a letter home, to his papa, said papa I’m going to the nba
But then out of nowhere his name got dropped into a scandal, always someone got to pay
I got to got to got to get going now pop, there’s a detective here from the DA
He’s telling me they’ll lock me away, if I don’t say what he wants me to saaaaaaaay
So to all the kids on the back home lots, I swear it isn’t like they say
the investigators pushed me around, and then I was black balled by the nba
That playground legend, who could dunk when he was eleven, with super natural abilities, long before MJ before the Doctor.
His Dreams were stolen, stomped on and thrown in, never got his day in the sun
And now here lies High Flying Hawkins the greatest player that never was
So to all the kids on the back home lots, I swear it isn’t like they say
the investigators pushed me around, and I was black balled by the nba
His Dreams were stolen, stomped on and thrown in, never got his day in the sun
And now here lies High Flying Hawkins the greatest player there ever was
Rode our horses in the pelting rain over the graves of the last war
Rooster was on a tare about something he’d seen the night before
Then he went quiet, when his horse stopped still in the night
I guess every now and then he the silent type
From a ramshackle shotgun house we heard a woman just a screaming a name
said why’d they take him lord, he hasn’t done a thing
But in that moment seemed god slipped out of sight
I guess every now and then he the silent type
I guess every now and then he the silent type
Another storm is coming, we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
Another storm is coming, we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
Further up the trail we came to ghastly sight
a man hanging from an old oak tree, for looking someone in the eye
I asked the governor but he ducked back from the light
I guess every now and then he the silent type
I guess every now and then he the silent type
Another storm is coming, we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
Another storm is coming,
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall
we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall