Then Ya Gone

”Then Ya Gone” (Featuring Chink Santana) (Intro: Ashanti)

Well, well, well, well… hello baby…

For one day you’re here, and then yah gone… (Rap: Verse 1: Chink)

I’m wakin’ up to anotha day, it’s amazin’, its getting’ crazy. ’

Cause why

I wonder how

I stuck this out,

I got this touch this pain and may be this might just be my prayers be.

As in these strange ways stuck in these dreams, ’

Cause if yah hood like my hood then you would --- up. ’

Cause the world is the ghetto, we gon’ go get locked upped.

Y’all go get yah hustle on and yah struggles on. (Bridge: Chink)

See, one minute yah here,

And then the next day yah gone… (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here baby,

And then yah gone (Chink: the next day yah gone). (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here baby,

And then yah gon-ooh-oh-on (Chink: and then the next day yah gone). (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here baby,

And then yah gone (Chink: the next day yah gone). (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here baby,

And then yah gon-ooh-oh-on (Chink: and then the next day yah gone). (Verse 2: Ashanti)

Listen, see everyday we complain about little ups’ and downs’.

We need to be thankin’ the

Lord that we are still around.

You’ll never ever know when it is your time to go,

And I know it’s hurtin’ so bad to people that we love,

Gotta use that example and try and straighten up.

Yah gotta live everyday as if your last one. (Bridge: Ashanti)

See, one minute yah here,

And then the next day yah gone… (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here baby (aah-ohh),

And then yah gone (Chink: the next day yah gone). (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here baby (oh, no),

And then yah gon-ooh-oh-on (Chink: and then the next day yah gone). (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here baby (Mmmmmmm),

And then yah gone (mm-mmmm) (Chink: the next day yah gone). (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here baby,

And then yah gon-ooh-oh-on (Chink: and then the next day yah gone). (Verse 3: Ashanti)

See, lately

I wake up in the mornin’ wantin’ to cry,

I been my knees and raise my head up into the sky.

And sometimes

I just can’t fight my feelings

I have inside,

I. See, I always wish that you could be here right by my side.

I’m glad I told you “

I love you so much” before yah died.

I knew you couldn’t and wouldn’t be here for very long, (Bridge: Ashanti)

See, one minute yah here,

And then the next day yah gone… (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here baby (aah-ohh),

And then yah gone (Chink: the next day yah gone), (aah-ooh-ooh-aah-oh-ohh). (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here baby,

And then yah gon-ooh-oh-on (aah-aah), (Chink: and then the next day yah gone). (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here baby (oh-no, no-no),

And then yah gone (Chink: the next day yah gone), (aaaaaah-haaaaaahhh). (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here baby (ah!),

And then yah gon-ooh-oh-on (Chink: and then the next day yah gone). (Spoken: Ashanti)

See, what

I need (what I need…)…

Is for y’all to know (y’all to know…)…

That livin’ life (livin’ life…)…

Can come and go (come and go…)…

Yah gotta face (gotta face…) reality (reality…)…

I want the world (want the world…)…

To sing wit’ me… (Verse 4: Ashanti)

Sometimes the world that we live in,

Don’t seem so fair or forgivin’.

See, these streets are hard to survive in, ‘

Cause all day yah see people dyin’ (no, no, no, no, no, nooo…).

And I pray that one day we all see

That life ain’t promised to you and life ain’t promised to me.

Never forget this and be clear,

We don’t know how long we gon’ be here. (Harmony: Ashanti)

Ooooooooooh-ooooh-oooh (ooooooh…)…

They gone (so gone…)…

I know, you know, yeah…

I know, la-la-la-ah… (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here (yeah) baby (yeah, yeah),

And then yah gone (yeah, yeah), (Chink: the next day yah gone). (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:) (Aah-ooh-ooh-aah-oh-oh)

One day yah here (gone…) baby,

And (well, well…) then (well, well…) yah gon-ooh-oh-on (Chink: and then the next day yah gone), (Well, well, well…). (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:)

One day yah here (aah-aah-aah!) baby, (Hooooooooooooh)

And then yah gone (Chink: the next day yah gone). (Chorus: Ashanti [and Chink]) (Ashanti:) (Hoo-ooh-no)

One day yah here baby (they gone),

And then yah gon-ooh-oh-on (they gone), (Chink: and then the next day yah gone). (Outro: Ashanti) (Ah-hah-hah-no-hah-ah)

Don’t leave me baby, yeah…

I know, you know, no, no, no, no, no, noo…

Yeah, yeah… la-la-la… la-la-la-ah…

Gon-ooh-ooh-gon-ooh-on…

Oh, no, yeah…