Jay-Z: Song Cry (The Lyrics)

“Song Cry” is Jay-Z at his realest.  It’s hard to find a rapper who would willingly cast aside their baller/gangster/mafioso persona and put their real-life problems on wax.  Sure, he distances himself by saying he has to make the song cry because he can’t, but the last verse is pure sorrow, saying he’ll mourn and live with how he did his girlfriend wrong forever.  If something like that doesn’t touch a nerve, then you must be a stone-cold gangster.

Lyrics (OHHLA) and live version of song from YouTube after the cut.

“Song Cry” (verse  3)

“A face of stone, was shocked on the other end of the phone
Word back home is that you got a special friend
So what was oh so special then?
You have given away without gettin at me
That’s your fault, how many times you forgiven me?
How was I to know that you was plain sick of me?
I know the way a nigga livin was whack
But you don’t get a nigga back like that!
Shit I’m a man with pride, you don’t do shit like that
You don’t just pick up and leave and leave me sick like that
You don’t throw away what we had, just like that
I was just fuckin them girls, I was gon’ get right back
They say you can’t turn a bad girl good
But once a good girl’s goin bad, she’s gone forever..
I’ll mourn forever
Shit I gotta live with the fact I did you wrong forever”