Dear Old Nicki - Album Version (Edited) - Nicki Minaj

Maybe you died cause everybody ask me, "Where you at?"

I try to channel you in hopes that I could steer you back

But it's like every intersection we just missed each other

You got your fans waitin' tell me you ain't six feet under

And tell me that you comin' back and you just took a break

Maybe I blamed you for everything that was my mistake

In hindsight, I loved your rawness and I loved your edge

Cause it was you who talked me down from jumping off the ledge

Your earings bamboo, your long nails too

Your BMW everytime you came through

You was the braveheart, you stole Wayne heart

You never switched it up, you played the same part

But I needed to grow, and I needed to know

Were there some things inside of me, that I needed to show

So I just deaded you, left you in all black

But dear old Nicki, please call back

You told me, you'd come when I needed you

And you said it so sweetly, I believed you

But I'm standing here calling, I can't see you

But I am holdin' you, holdin' you, holdin' you

To that

Yo, did I chase the glitz and glamour, money, fame, and power?

Cause if so, that will forever go down my lamest hour

I should've kept you with me, gettin' at them nameless cowards

They was no match for you, couldn't defeat your prowess

I had to make them changes, I hoped you understood

You see for every bad, I did a ton of good

But you was underground, and I was mainstream

I live the life now, that we would daydream

My only wish, is you come enjoy it with me

Get on them conference calls, go meet the lawyers with me

The money came yeah, tripled and quadrupled it

But I still miss us, when we was just on some stupid shit

And it's still fuck the media they ridiculed you, never believed in ya

They just deaded you, left you in all black

But dear old Nicki, please call back

You told me, you'd come when I needed you

And you said it so sweetly, I believed you

But I'm standing here calling, I can't see you

But I am holdin' you, holdin' you, holdin' you

To that

And yes I'm holdin' you, holdin' you, holdin' you

And yes I'm holdin' you, holdin' you, holdin' you

And yes I'm holdin' you, holdin' you, holdin' you

To that

And yes I'm holdin' you, holdin' you, holdin' you

And yes I'm holdin' you, holdin' you, holdin' you

And yes I'm holdin' you, holdin' you, holdin' you

To that