**Verse 1**
Me and Dre came up from the same dirt road,
Same empty fridge, same heavy load.
Mama cried quiet when the rent came due,
We learned real fast what hunger can do.
Sharing one coat in the wintertime cold,
Making big promises when we were young and bold.
Said we'd get rich, said we'd never fold,
Said we'd die brothers before we'd ever be sold.
The streets raised us when nobody could,
Taught us wrong looked a lot like good.
We chased that money, trying to escape,
Never knowing fate already set the shape.
**Chorus**
We were two lost kids with the world on our back,
Running through the dark trying to stay on track.
I trusted you more than I trusted myself,
Put our bond above money, above wealth.
But greed got loud when your pockets went broke,
And everything we built disappeared in smoke.
**Verse 2**
I noticed the change in the look of your eyes,
Started hearing whispers, started catching lies.
Calls got shorter, energy strange,
Funny how betrayal starts with little things.
I covered your losses, defended your name,
Took heat for mistakes that weren't even mine to claim.
Still called you brother when nobody would,
Still rode for you when I knew I shouldn't.
Then one cold night I heard what you'd done,
Selling my trust for a little quick run.
Everything shattered, every memory cracked,
All those years gone, never coming back.
**Chorus**
We were two lost kids with the world on our back,
Running through the dark trying to stay on track.
I trusted you more than I trusted myself,
Put our bond above money, above wealth.
But greed got loud when your pockets went broke,
And everything we built disappeared in smoke.
**Bridge**
I wasn't crying over money or pride,
I was mourning the brother that already died.
Not the body, the soul I knew,
The kid from the block who once stayed true.
The one who shared meals when we had no bread,
The one who swore loyalty till we were dead.
I searched for that friend in your face that night,
But all I found was a stranger's eyes.
**Final Verse**
Months went by, we never spoke.
The silence hurt more than the jokes.
Then word came through on a rainy day,
Said you got caught in the life we couldn't escape.
People filled churches and wore black clothes,
Telling old stories that everybody knows.
I stood in the back with my head hung low,
Thinking about two kids from so long ago.
I wasn't angry standing by your grave,
Just wishing somehow you could've been saved.
'Cause before the lies, before the greed,
You were still my brother, at least to me.
**Outro**
Now every year when the cold winds blow,
I drive past the block where we used to go.
And I tell myself what the pain still proves—
Sometimes the bullet ain't what kills the bond.
Sometimes betrayal does.
HbKeed