Goodenough Mashego Dear Reuben Lyrics:
dear reuben
(bn circa 1929 .d 14 april 2006)

the closing of a sad chapter of my life
happens 24 years later

tears dripped, but i never cried
some cried, cuz they lied
maybe cuz inside they never died
i couldn't shed fake tears
didn't even flood my weary eyes

i'm not that coldhearted
i get shocked by tragedy
but i've cried rivers of tears
never done so in 20 years or so now
i find no reason to wail when can't do the cause

their pain is, but my pain
though feeble on my vein
like a needle on a vinyl
i died in the year of '83
i grew up before my time
merely a year after my granddad passed on
survived by 3 daughters & 10 grandchildren
a customary law wife who was never to taste his sweat

@ life & @ death he was forver running
leaving his younger brother who was forever earning
i shy not from pain cuz it don't pierce no more
another chapter of my life finally comes to an end
episode 500 & 1 of my soap opera is finally inked
like a piece of puzzle that just completed a picture

i hold no grudges no more my adversaries crumble
like the iron curtain & the great wall of berlin
like apartheid south africa in the winter of '94
who said to you, you take mine you gon' live forever
i cried tears in '82 when i lost my light
cried tears in '75 when enigma departed
cried tears in '96 when lucia deceased
saw no light on the morning of stevie's demise
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when eric died i saw darkness
he begged me not to quit the loving
i'm doing most of my writing in memory of him
i never cried when my sister-in-law lay in her casket
felt god's presence when my older brother remarried
felt empty when my other brother divorced
celebrated when my nephews multiplied
became a father when lesego was born
wondered in darkness when i got ex-communicated
funny today i got bad news but they feel expected
those who live by the sword will reap the death of mongrels
those who feed on other's blood will perish like vampires

me i'ma say it again for the millionth time
i know you heard this before & thought i might be joking
i'm a soldier to the grave fuck all my enemies
they gon' perish @ street corners seen by all the beggars
i'm the son of god & he loves his creation
i got hate in my heart which was planted in '83
i never had reason to work school was calling my name
it was a cold-cold world but i faced it with zest
spent saturdays building riches that never made you wealthy
sundays was calvinist in prayer begging for your forgiveness
we never spoke since the morning i decided i was coming no more
weeks later my brother came home bleeding
from an accident of your doing
teenager fell from a van you paid no compensation
watched him nurse himself to health while you paid no visit
for many years you stayed away after you fucked my family
my granny lived a poor life cuz of your treachery
we grew up hopeless never had two pennies to rub
maybe i'm sounding kinda cold but i learnt it from you
1 by 1 you people's dropping survived by broke families
me if i fall i'll be survived by the richest daughter of a hustler

i quit dependence became my own man faced the world all alone
i never needed you once 'ven when i contemplated crime
witnessed my uncles deteriorate from brave men to cowards
asking me to hook them liquor that i could barely afford
while our lives changed we flew higher than mount everest
catching planes to distant places forget we came from that tree
i'm the son of the creator my surname should reflect
i feel bad when i heard you died i had no pity
my granny said it with remorse though she knows how i feel
that i'm human i can say "rest in peace granddad"
may god bless you & grant you ressurection
me i'll be gone to destruction cuz of the life i live
i can trade my life for yours though you lived yours to the full
i walk a mile in your shoe it beats me why you we cold
"rest in peace, but i'm sorry i'm not there to bury you"
can't show respect to a man i despised to his grave
-ends-
Lyrics: Dear Reuben, Goodenough Mashego [end]