When You're Gone

Wait til you're dead 'til they sing your song
Because they love you more when you're gone
Say it ain't right when they did you wrong
Because they love you more when you're gone
Now everybody wanna shed they tears
Never said nothin', when you dead they cheer
On the stairway to Heaven, Lord it won't be long
Because they love you more when you're gone

This shit is crazy, we set aflame our nation for some strangers
Hit the streets with the anger but see, barely know our neighbors
Barely know they lives, go out get the paper, sayin' "Hi"
Don't really care 'til they die - and then everything it changes
See your picture everywhere, everybody got a story
Lie about thoughts and prayers, when you gone they say they sorry
When you was alive they never looked you in your eye
Suspectin' they really despised but lovin more on your demise
Shit is cray, such is life, when it's dark, see the light
When you die, give them life, that is irony and it's rightfully
So disturbing, when you lived, wasn't worthy
I don't want no flowers when I die
Save them tears -- ain't gotta cry
I need mine while I'm alive

Wait til you're dead 'til they sing your song
Because they love you more when you're gone
Say it ain't right when they did you wrong
Because they love you more when you're gone
Now everybody wanna shed they tears
Never said nothin', when you dead they cheer
On the stairway to Heaven, Lord it won't be long
Because they love you more when you're gone

This for Breonna Taylor and George Floyd - they was anonymous
Cops killed 'em - made 'em famous: death was their accomplishment
And countless others paid the price, achieving fame that cost their life
And in their name we causin' strife in major cities every night
Thinkin' bout the things that we did in people's memory
Better to die a martyr we invoke against our enemies
Even when you die people feedin' off your energy
So when they say your name it gon echo for a century
We waited too long to protect our own, Vanessa Guillen died all alone
They way that they did her was wrong - and that was before the hammer
So why are we so enamored on this idea of revenge
Why did we wait 'til she died - just wait 'til it happens again

Wait til you're dead 'til they sing your song
Because they love you more when you're gone
Say it ain't right when they did you wrong
Because they love you more when you're gone
Now everybody wanna shed they tears
Never said nothin', when you dead they cheer
On the stairway to Heaven, Lord it won't be long
Because they love you more when you're gone