Nas, Damian Marley - Friends lyrics

These later days in Babylon as
I watch your children grow
And the years them carry on and
I miss you even more
Still I send them go to school and tell them
What dem fi know
All of mi friend dem mi salute
Daddi gon Lenny Screw
Another year has come and past
Man a drop like morning dew
Uncle Warrick sick and gone when
Him couldn't catch a flu
Picka T you a mi don
Respect long and overdue
When nothing never did a gwan you
Still have on somethin' new
Our friendship ever last all when
One minus from few
Yes we surely had a blast
We're like family me and you
A nuh every path you cross
Lead to somebody whe true
Of the many that are called
Only chosen is a few

Of the real friends that serve you long
Your memories might fade
Your real friends will serve you long
Sunshine or rain
Your real friends will serve you long
Acquaintances will fade
Your real friends won't do you wrong
Real friend don't change

Only talking with winners
A loser or two got my number
Still they think they real but
They just really awfully bitter
Salty niggas hate the smarter ones
These are the doubters
Who sour 'bout my run
I barely made it out the slums
My value high 'cause I do more
Than rap about a gun
I made money for niggas
Y'all never looking out for none
I helped millionaires get to
That very position
Some real millionaires see that's ill
'cause look at statistics
Real millionaires and I ain't
Talking ghetto riches, thorough business
You mistreating niggas
Heard your folks bleed in prison
You ain't a G and if you was I don't recall
Who would roll with y'all
Bunch of fucking know it alls
Who's dough is small
Look what's it come to our
Rapport's good no more
We was good before till I saw what
Type a dude you took me for
We had a chance to take paper down
What I took was more
Because of hatred, opportunity wasted

Your real friends will serve you long
Your car and clothes will fade
Your real friend won't do you wrong
Real friend don't change Eh

Your real friend won't run in war
Nuh care what the cost is
You real friends are in for all
The wins and the losses
Fi Real! No question at all them
Ready fi rise the tallest
Take to the enemies all for one
And one for all this
Real friend will hear you out
No secret feelings
Real friends won't sell you out
No bargain pleading
For real, always looking out a meal
When outside a drought your real
Friend won't hide you out, no

Your real friends will serve you long
When all else fails
Your real friend won't do you wrong
Real friend don't change

May laughter from backstabbers turn
To tears faster
I wish for you no snake shall
Slither past ya you have to
Keep your vision clear cause only
A coward lives in fear
My surroundings got only real
Powerful niggas here
Real men we have a code of ethics
No question
No jealousies, no feminine tendencies
We expecting no gossip, no phony logic
No counting your homey pocket
Spare no expense for legal defense
If your homey locked up
No keeping tabs on who was
The last who looked out
Selfishness that's a character flaw
No holding out
Yo what happened to the honor
You're dealing withsensitive Primadonna drama
Teflon love for my dudes who solid

Your real friends will serve you long
Your memories might fade
Your real friends will serve you long
Sunshine or rain, eh
Your real friends will serve you long
Woe ya woe when all else fails
Your real friends won't do you wrong
Real friend don't change

Now plentiful or scantily
My cup be full or emptily
With arm in arms we'll all trod on
Through destiny a friend that's true
Is there for me respect is due
They care for me should I be down
Or even out they're next to me
Hey

Your real friends will serve you long
Your memories might fade
Your real friends will serve you long
Sunshine or rain, hey
Your real friends will serve you long
Woe ya woe when all else fails
Real friends won't do you wrong
Real friend don't change
Real friend don't change
Real friend don't change
Real friend don't change
Real friend don't change