Marlon Craft - Loved lyrics

This is a letter to my future son
I hope you know that you the one
Hope you know the list is short of things
From which you should run yeah
I hope you love whoever you become
You’ve been burdened with a lot of shit
That you ain’t done shit to deserve
But I don’t wanna give you lists
Of things you should shun
I’d rather give you the facilities to choose
Understand you’s also born with
Lots of privileges to use as you see fit
If you keep it to you
Can’t lie I’d be disappointed
But just promise me you won’t
Be on some misinformed shit
Seek truth and make peace with it
Don’t do that backwards
Don’t take their word on what
You need to know learn how tax works
Before you judge harshly learn
How to act first i bring you to a world
Designed to disenchant your brilliance
Riddle you with guilt ‘cause
They can’t commodify innocence
And I hope that you livin’ it
‘Cause there’s love in the midst of it
Hope you wash down your fear with cups
Filled to the brim with it
I think a lot of dads hope
Their son’ll be like them
All I can think about’s the
Ways I hope you’re different
Your father talked a lot i hope you listen
Your father let his stresses win in ways
I hope is distant to you
And don’t let nobody older try
To live shit through you that’s including me
This world’s for you to see
There’ll only ever be one you
So decide who you want you to be
And live beautifully

And if these gotta be my last days last days
I just hope I left the world a little better
And I’ve been given a whole lot
So if they tax me
With less time to achieve my endeavours
Just know I was loved i was loved
I was loved i was loved
I was loved that’s enough for me
Said I was loved i was loved
I was loved i was loved
I was loved even when it was tough to be
Said I was loved

This is a letter to whoever hears it
I know you tryin’ you been
Dyin’ for some better years
And it seem like they never near
And feel like you eleven beers in
You runnin’ out of buckets just to
Go and let your tears drip
Take a breath and close your eyes now
I know it be mad hard to take it easy
Know you don’t relate to
Words they provide now
And even when they kinda right
They just make it cheesy
But without you this world
Wouldn’t be this world
You are we this world that
Is ours do your thing
Leave your charger at home
Don’t belong to your phone
It get hard shit I know
Know our habit's be bad but
They all that we know
They make us us and it’s hard to let go
I been the same with the yearns
But if you be you someone’d love you for it
That’s all I’ve learned to be true

And if these gotta be your
Last days last days
Hope you know you left the
World a little better
And I’ve been given a whole lot
So if they tax me
With less time to achieve my endeavours
I’ma tell you you were loved you were loved
You were loved you were loved
Even when shit was tough
Just know you got love you got love
You got love you got love
You got love you got love
I just hope that’s enough

The closer I get to being happy
The more I’m afraid to die young
The more I stop tryin’ to find meaning
The more I start to find love
Perseverance, gratitude
The shit that I’m defined of
Fuck the cheers and platitudes
That latitude won’t find us
Grouchy dude ain’t mad at you per se
It’s just my mind stuck on how we
Let it all get so blurry
A lot to say before I go i’m so hurried
But if I don’t make it
Don’t worry don’t worry i had love
I had love i had love
I had love and that’s enough for me
Said I was loved