Story Behind the Song
My Family suffered many deaths this year- and two prior to thanksgiving. It seems the holidays can hold more then just cheer but grief as well. We gotta hold on to our families and our values and keep our heads up. They really ain't gone- they just deep inside us.
I blew in the studio (smoke in da shoppe) and gettin my vocal parts (singin) done was a b*tch!! We spent about three hours messin with the harmonizer and effects and then about 8 takes till I was satisfied with the feel for it!!
The rhymez took me approximately 20 minutes per verse so about an hour all together for both verses, I am a perfectionist especially for my own stuff and that probably makes things harder then they need be!!
Most of my songs (minus 5 of em) where written in my mothers house in Lancaster Pa. The Soulja been through a hellish 2 year period and right now is temporarily livin at his mom's pad!! Hey I said Temporarily!! My mom's however loves it and after listening to the final version of "they ain't gone" she had tears streamin down her face, that was the bets feeling i ever had and the greatest compliment of my cAreer!!!
What others are saying about "they ain't gone":
I'm very sorry to hear of your lost Dark. I just got finished listening to your song "They ain't gone". Unbelievable melody. I actually shed a tear. I could tell you put your heart and soul in the piano, and I could feel it with every keystroke. When the slow hip-hop beat came in, and you began to speak. The lyrics were beautiful....Its unfortunate for your loss.
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hOCKSTER:
I'm very sorry to hear about that, TheDarkSoulja. Your song is definitely somethnig really special though.
MP3.COM/SKWIRM:
Yo I peeped your new songs, I love the positive track you made about
the
lost ones. It is beautiful, your voice is beautiful too. That's the
way I
like your lyrics when they promote positivity
Lyrics
Chorus:
And they ain't Gone, they always right there inside of you, just close your eyes and remember they ain't going no where, their inside your soul forever.
And they ain't gone, NO they right there inside of you, thats how it is forever, their inside your soul just open up the door and remember...and they ain't gone...
Verse 1:
Yeah and I won't never let em go, and thats fa sure I'mma hang on to every last thought. Cause every one of ya'll is a piece of me and indeed without ya'll the soulja couldn't be who he be.
and ya'll made me safe at times when i was lost inside, and you'd find the words when I'd lose the rhymes.
And I wish you was still here, but that ain't so, although you gone from my life you now a part of my soul.
Chorus:
And though they Gone, they always right there inside of you, just close your eyes and remember they ain't going no where, their inside your soul forever.
And they ain't gone, NO they right there inside of you, thats how it is forever, their inside your soul just open up the door and remember...and they ain't gone...
Verse 2:
And i tried to tell ya'll that ain't no lie, we said we'd ride forever.. but we never said good bye.,
and it don't seem fair that the good ones they always die first and the pain i feel deep inside.....can it get any worse?
And I know Life supposed to be like this we all gotta die, but why's it gotta be all the ones I loved most in my life?
The ones that kept me alive, the ones that always made me smile and the ones that always had my back when all these things got wild.
And they was always there for me and i was there for them, and if you real then thats what you do for ya closest friends.,
Cause they could be gone in a snap, can't no one control that not all the tears on this planet could bring em back.
So say it while you can and DAMN well mean it when you say it because time becomes an enemy from the minute we all created.
But right now I just wish ya'll was here, but that ain't so, and although you gone from my life you now a part of my soul.
Chorus:
And though they Gone, they always right there inside of you, just close your eyes and remember they ain't going no where, their inside your soul forever.
And they ain't gone, NO they right there inside of you, thats how it is forever, their inside your soul just open up the door and remember...and they ain't gone...
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