WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE HOMIES?
Where have all my Boys gone?
Don’t see them around no more.
Used to be a Gang of us all. .
At the alley or the pool hall;
at the schoolyard or the courtyard;
on the hillside;
at the hangout or on the Boulevard. .
You met up with them at the beach
or Cinco de Mayo at the park. .
You gathered up at the parties,
at them weddings or quinceñeras,
at them baptisms or at the hall. .
All around the Varrio,
and in all them roads. .
You’d run into them at the corner
or at the liquor store . .
You’d look over the fence and look who's there . .
The Homeboys where always there. .
Nite & Day,
Day in--Nite out. .
Seemed like the Boys would be there 4Ever . .
Never ever going nowhere . .
But One by One surely
~> I’ve lost most . .
They’ve moved on . .
Some for better, some for worse . .
And B4 no time
~> I stand here most alone . .
The memories of their laffs
are all mostly gone . .
Shadows and Phantoms
their faces have become . .
Most Locos I remember,
some barely at all . .
I look back in time and realize
~> I miss them all . .
And I wonder much ‘bout them
now that I’m gettin’ old . .
Why we all broke? . .
Then I think 'bout the things that happened,
and the situations that caught most . .
Life or Death took hold of us all!!!
Away from the Varrio . .
Away from our homes . .
How did it all happen?
Sometimes it hurts to know!!!
Time did not wait up on none . .
It came upon us so quickly
and B4 you know
~> Away we go . .
Homeboy by Homeboy,
Day by Day,
Year by Year . .
And today they’re all gone . .
Taken from me for this or that,
by these or those . .
By a mad bullit or by a cruel system . .
By a bad fix or an evil woman . .
By a dream come true, or a promise made . .
By a reckoning, or a Saviors’ Love. .
In any case,
I don’t see them much no more . . .
Sum even 4Ever no more . . .
I shed a tear for those . .
And for the rest
[b]“A prayer & a wish from my Corazon.â€


