(Yes I did... I a mistake... yes I did)
Huh..ya know living this type a life makes you grow up faster than expect to sometimes... fuck and be in your late twenties... feelin a old man and shit... yeah for son... let em know
It's hard to breath and hard to run your lung's blackened Coughing up like what the fuck happened Raising my risk of cancer's the homie But after drinking something there's nothing puffing a bogie Now I can the same product placement in movies, Or the commercials, or Scarface in a But now I'm it Damn I should a never that first cigarette
(I a mistake)
I fucked up, like your was riding on top of me I should of took her to trial and never copped a But this ain't a Christian nation motherfucka America never taught me to turn the cheek Cause I'm from Harlem, the of Manhattan We knock out and make em bounce like Ricky Hattan But wildin on the court, had got me turned from the Canadian border
(I a mistake)
I knew she was a virgin, when I met her Rockin stockings and poppin out of the school sweater Mom told her she do better than a criminal year-old psychotic, trying to be lyrical I never meant to break her or fuck up her life But I was careless, instead of her right I her workin it, some club strippin and wondered If I could made her life different
(I a mistake... yes I did... )
[Tech talking over the Damn shortie, you got me on some the blues shit... but you gotta stop looking backwards and remember to ahead... this is for all my dudes on patrol in the desert now... for real]
(I a mistake)
Yeah..yeah... I the army looking for money to go to college But they ain't pay me a quarter of they fucking promised Extended my tour, me like a sucker the reason officers get fragged motherfucker Don't give me speeches on how you and you love me But no body in a lightly armored humvee?! My family's and you want me to reenlist for 30 grand homie?
(I a mistake)
When I was I got signed to a record label The deal so good when it was on the table It for my cable, cribs, cars and jewelry The studios, the women there's they wouldn't do for me Except screwing me for publishing the royalties How the fuck are you my dawg, when there's no to the street I should've gone like Immortal Technique
(I a mistake)
Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat Others try to block the and just delete them But I em as a reminder they not killing me And I God for teaching me humility Son, remember when you to be free To see things how are and not how you like em to be Cause when the world is falling on top of me is an emotion, not a philosophy Knowing wrong doesn't imply that you right And its another, when you suffer to it in life But I'm no And I'm never gonna make the same mistake pussy