Please remember
Don't turn your back on me
Don't turn your back

Don't turn your back

I remember all my fallen friends

The ones I knew when we hung
together way back then
The crew with whom

I first took up pad and pen
When we were true
But we all were feeling bad again

From living lives of sin

With nothing happening

So we tried to
Make our lives more exciting
We were lied to

My friends they turned to violence
What a ride, too
Drugs, criminality

And rumbling and fighting

I remember dull and dreary day

When my old bro got cold
Carried away
He took the drugs too far

And when he had to pay
He'd turn to stealing
When the urgent cravings had their sway

Without a feeling
He would take it from his family
Though they were grieving

Living a desperate lives of poverty
Oh he was finding
Smashing people's cars

Man he was cray
Reeling from dealing
Once bright eyes now looked on darkened days,

Watching his life wasting away

Please remember

Don't turn your back on me
Don't turn your back
Don't turn your back


I remember all the friends I lost
When the pills took over

And they paid the cost,
Speeding like land rovers
Thought they was the boss,

Let their grades slip lower
Then their school was lost.
Turned to gambling

And lost themselves
With dice they tossed
Turned to hustling

And then they took the deepest loss
Got kicked out by their families
Then ran across

Montreal looking for a fix
At any cost,
Pulling switches

Like they tomahawks.

Please remember

Don't turn your back on me
Don't turn your back
Don't turn your back


I remember all their funerals
All their gravestones

Engraved with Roman numerals
Saw my fondest friends
Dropped down

Six feet under
Tears and rain blurred
Amid the booming of the thunder

Some fell to suicide

And died inside a fatal blunder
Others overdosed
And left their loved ones torn asunder,
And now I'm still here with
Nothing left to do but wonder

Why Death chose
To take my young friends as his plunder.

All the memories with you
All the things that we'd do

All the days with the crew
All the ways that we grew

All the lies that we flew
All the anger we'd stew

All the dreams that we drew
I'll never forget you

Please remember
Don't turn your back on me
Don't turn your back

Don't turn your back