Why?

Listen,
Yeah look,
If you could speak to the personification of death,
What would you say?
What emotion would you convey?
How would you conversate?
How would you phrase your perception of the phase called grieving,
When good people are leaving this earth,
Like what's the point in birth if we end up in grave,
Family paying for stones engraved with given name,
Forgive me for passing blame cause I don't mean to shoot the messenger,
But look at who we lose up on the regular,
Dear death,
Bare with me if I'm upset,
There's just a lot I need to get off my chest,
Bare with me I'll digrees,
I'm mad at you I confess,
Though I've been blessed to have bested you for a sec or two,
I question who you choose to take,
Searching for actual answers for who you choose to stay?
But I mean who put you in charge of all that shit anyways?
Who's got you out here obliterating entire faiths?
Just so confused I been waiting for you to show your face,

So I can ask you why, why, why?
Why we die, the way we die, can you tell me please,
I need a answer to why, why, why?
Why we die, the way we die, I need answers man,

If you can hear me now,
Then please let me know,
When it all goes down,
Then tell me where we go,
If you can hear me now,
Then please let me know,
When it all goes down,
Then tell me where we go,

They just laid my uncle Bill to rest, I didn't get to see him,
Too busy welcoming a son, I wished he got to meet him,
Thinking bout cancer like "really? That's what it took to beat him?"
Like why'd you take him from a family who need him? Like, what's the reason really?
I knew my uncle Billy,
Was hella selfless,
Helpless when it came it his family because respect was,
Top of his priority list,
I see that beauty it's shining within the hearts of his kids,
Speaking of kids you took my cousin,
Back in 2014 his whole community loved him,
And I never got to meet him but I can't stop thinking of him,
And honestly it's crazy and it's wild,
How you can let someone live on without they child, ain't it wild?
Still wondering what you kill for,
When I think about stillborns, I'm still torn,
What about my brothers and sisters I've never met?
For you it's quick and it's easy, for us it's hard to forget,
Hard to understand and hard to stand,
Is it all part of plans?
The cards you hand, are they just God's demands?
Gunmen shooting at families with fingers twisted like ampersand,
And yet you take little children walking with hand in hand,
A couple months ago you took away my friend,
Before I had a chance to mend the broken fences I put up as my defence,
But I hope she knew it then that I ain't want her life to end,
So tell me do she get the messages I send?
Does she get all of our prayers?
Does she hear all of our cries?
When we walked around the casket did she hear all our goodbyes?
Tell me does she realise how we saw her through our eyes?
Look my guy, I need you to tell me why?

Please, I need an answer why, why, why?
Why we die, the way we die, can you tell me please,
I just wanna know why, why, why?
Why we die, the way we die, I need answers man,

If you can hear me now,
Then please let me know,
When it all goes down,
Then tell me where we go,
If you can hear me now,
Then please let me know,
When it all goes down,
Then tell me where we go,

One thing I will say,
Is maybe it's just not for us to know,
Maybe it's all apart of letting go,
The grief and everything that plays apart in your version of crossroads,
Is in a way supposed to make us grow,
Now I don't really get it, I'm lyin' if I told you I'm okay,
But maybe this pain is never meant to fade?
Maybe everything you doin' now is just a simple test of faith,
And maybe loss doesn't mean they gone away,
I pray one day I'll learn,
I pray one day I'll see the other side,
I pray that when it's time and you arrive,
That I'll be ready for you when you take me to my family in the skies,
Content with all the love I left behind,
Content with who I was and what I've done with all the time I've been alive,
Provided that I can learn to dry my eyes,
And learn to realise, that the real silver lining,
And why we keep trying,
Is out of respect for the ones dying,
Man forgive me while I'm crying it's emotions,
It seems to overflow because I barely get to show them,
I pray the afterlife is everything that I've been hopin',
And I'll finally know the reasons for the things we ain't been knowing,
A peak behind the curtain, like what haven't they been showin',
Like tell me what's the logic in human beings and growin'
But most of all, my loved standing with arms open,
Tellin' me to come in close for another moment to hold 'em,

And really that's all that I need answered why, why, why?
Why we die, the way we die, if you could tell me, please
I just wanna know why, why, why?
Why we die, the way we die, I need answers man,

If you can hear me now,
Then please let me know,
When it all goes down,
Then tell me where we go,
If you can hear me now,
Then please let me know,
When it all goes down,
Then tell me where we go,