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I (named i /ˈaɪ/, plural ies) is the ninth letter and a vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
In Semitic, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative (/ʕ/) in Egyptian, but was reassigned to /j/ (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent /i/, the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words.
The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician yodh as their letter iota (⟨Ι, ι⟩) to represent /i/, the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent /j/. The modern letter ⟨j⟩ was firstly a variation of ⟨i⟩, and both were used interchangeably for both the vowel and the consonant, coming to be differentiated only in the 16th century. The dot over the lowercase 'i' is sometimes called a tittle. In the Turkish alphabet, dotted and dotless I are considered separate letters, representing a front and back vowel, respectively, and both have upper-case (⟨I⟩, ⟨İ⟩) and lowercase (⟨ı⟩, ⟨i⟩) forms.
It shoulda been 2 against the world
It shoulda been you and me removing disease
And once I'm dead you'll be leading the lost to a
better land
And I'm so glad the world is coming to an end
Maybe now we'll grasp each others unloving hands
I wonder were we meant for more, was I meant to have
you at all?
Time is running out, the shit is everywhere, the spread
won't stop
Maybe they're the fortunate ones
The walking dead still walking towards the sun
It shoulda been the 2 of us
You and me removing disease
And once I'm dead you'll be leading the lost to a
better land
We're all sick and dying
(Please don't go, I need you now more than ever)
Gypsies told me, we were soul mates
In a past life but not in this life
(I am cursed and so are you)
Always reaching
never there