it s been a few years now time flies it was like yesterday i was wipin my eyes from my cries of you leaving my life but i realize why cry when you in paradise don t get me wrong i still miss you to this day and i wish you could witness your lil cousin on the stage but some things change it s the way things go 21st birthday probably got your wings and halo but you ve always been an angel in disguise and now slim you re an angel in the skies sit back and put your picture to the side close my eyes wit my head up high i reminisce your life thinkin bout the times we had way back we were wreckless flashbacks to the past ain t as bad as i expected but you ain t gone now you just live in the sky cause you had one life to live and you were too sick to die take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh hey boy how you livin up in heaven cause even though you ain t here you know that we still sendin love and i know you stayin true up there cause i look outside the sky is blue up there you recall the night i gave you a ride in my car you said keep rhymin and in no time you ll be a star well you don t know this but i took that to the heart and i used those words to motivate me to get this far and now i m doing big things like you said i would i know i m gonna make it one day cause you said i could cause if i want it bad enough it ll end up good you supported me not too many understood i dont think you understand how much you meant to me but things happen for a reason this was meant to be cause now ain t nothin hard you livin heavenly and since life goes on just rest in peace  take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh hey slim you weren t like anybody else when i called for you you never hesitate to help so the day you left i can t express how i felt and it hurts to talk to you cause it s like talkin to myself but i know you hear me loud and clear cause the only thing between us is the clouds and air man i can t wait to see you again tell great grand daddy i said hi i know you with him and our great uncle too the one that passed from cancer i know you up there with them now happy as ever not to mention your sister you lost when you were younger who would ve thought a few years later you d be together ha ha i m done mournin your death i m celebratin ya life cause whenever darkness falls eventually it gets bright so yeah i ma make it through now i ll manage by the way i don t love you to death i love you past it take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh take my hand and hold it tight i will never let go no not for life uh you made me who i am you made me the star that i am today it was your words and that car ride when you simply said you know what keep at it crazy you gon get somewhere you the very first the very first person to say that rest in peace slim we love you see you when i get there