Never Out the Picture

Lyrics

[Verse 1] When you lose somebody, there's no remedy Sometimes your mind can't even pull up the memory When I need to see you I know where to go to look I bring you back to life when I open that photo book Once I find a picture of us then Automatically we right back at the club again Or in the neighborhood 'bout to get some thugging in The person's gone but there's no way that the love could end Flipping through it, I just laugh, thinking 'bout this I can tell what year it was by our outfits Time flew in a blaze, we had some cool days Some of the pictures going back to middle school age Crazy 'cause we never thought about the moment that we took that One day this would be a key reminder I could look at Losing them was heartbreak and then you never shook that So when you take it down off the shelf it's hard to put back [Chorus] No more riding and rolling through to get ya Hanging out and talking on the phone with ya Now you passed on and we sure gon' miss ya Even though you gone you ain't never out the picture Every time I see one, I can't help but wonder All of these years, still remember your number Anytime of year, fall, winter, spring or summer When I'm feeling down I can get a smile from ya [Verse 2] Even though I lost my family or friend Anytime I want to I can see 'em once again I go so far back with my boy That we even got pictures on them old school polaroids You wonder why they had to leave you in this mess alone [?] image don't erase when the flesh is gone Whenever I decide, magically you're alive Plus I got a hundred more on my hard drive It's a lot of 'em but I ain't taking inventory It's never boring, every photograph told a story Can't be mad when I flash to the times we had They wasn't all good, some of them were kinda sad Group pictures decades old show you the change Out of the five of us, in this one only two remain I'm looking at 'em and I tell 'em that I'm repping for 'em Wish I could show 'em that what we started we kept it going [Chorus] No more riding and rolling through to get ya Hanging out and talking on the phone with ya Now you passed on and we sure gon' miss ya Even though you gone you ain't never out the picture Every time I see one, I can't help but wonder All of these years, still remember your number Anytime of year, fall, winter, spring or summer When I'm feeling down I can get a smile from ya [Verse 3] We pray that God see us through You was hard for me to lose But once you in that portrait you can never be removed When I need a boost I go to you specifically 'cause pictures be quickly resurrecting you visually When we in front of that camera we have no way of knowing Just how important it is in that moment you posing Whoever said times flies I guess he was right That little half second flash will bless you for life Sometimes you not in position to see even the living That's why they be meaning so much to our people in prison A lot of times we don't even wanna take 'em, admit it But years later when you see 'em you grateful you did it Pictures of you as a baby that you got no remembrance That's nana holding you right there and that's your only image That photo of a child you lost when they was just an infant Now your future children can get to see their older sibling That lost love, wife, husband, you see their faces Different expressions of laughter taken in different places Embrace the folks who ok with you while you're able to If you don't have no pictures of 'em go take a few [Chorus] No more riding and rolling through to get ya Hanging out and talking on the phone with ya Now you passed on and we sure gon' miss ya Even though you gone you ain't never out the picture Every time I see one, I can't help but wonder All of these years, still remember your number Anytime of year, fall, winter, spring or summer When I'm feeling down I can get a smile from ya