From J to Joi Lyrics

I want you to know what you mean to me, how I envy

Yeah

Appreciate what you did for me

Appreciate what you done for me

Them summer nights and those cold winters when I tried to sleep and you'd comfort me

You'd come for me when they came for me

They shed me in a bad light

Through thick and thin like the Bailey twins, with my left hook, you threw the right

Thinking about what could've been, what you should've been, what you could've did but you didn't

Opportunity's missing

Gave it all up to allow me to live and I took advantage of that wishful thinking

Time flies and I was only blinking

I want you to know what you mean to me, how I envy your compassion for me

Late nights when you laughed for me

When daddy left, you'd cry for me

I paid attention and I didn't take it for granted, listen

I look to god cause I'm always wishing

For your safety, I don't need permission

To protect you, to cherish you, I'm detached but you're never missing

From my thoughts, from my heart, from the confines of my love and yes

I cut to make these scars but your belief will take me far, girl

My heart's turning in twirls

Irish twins, you're my world

I'm the diamond, you're the pearl

Tempering my steel for me

Sharpening my wits for me

Disqualifying what I hadn't considered to be a very bad look for me

And I didn't ask

It's really crazy, I didn't even have to ask

Books for school, or money for shoes, or to bare bad news or to just pay gas

I reflect

See what is and what was

You charge in this life, while I'm making these puddles

I want you to know what you mean to me, how I envy your compassion for me

Late nights when you laughed for me

When daddy left, you'd cry for me

I paid attention and I didn't take it for granted, listen

Man, know what, you want to know what I think?

I was down bad, so close to brink

I snapped that day when I stood at the sink

Contemplating on what you'd think

Would you hate me?

Would you lose me?

With a nobody, you'd confuse me

Pound for pound, I lost that round called "life," and the will for you to use me

As a big brother, maybe another father figure with seven figures

By rhyming words with the rhythm rhythm, make the girls smitten, make mama listen

To how I felt about the suicide and the hard times and how I'd ride till the wheels fall off

And to the ends of time for you, yeah

"J" the joyful noise, give me life, love and

Poise

"O" the optimist, opportunist with the unrivaled intelligence

Then "I," inspirational in all parts of this life

One of which, get back to

To my little sister, I love you, peace