(Yes I did... I a mistake... yes I did)
Huh..ya know living this type a life makes you up faster than you'd expect to sometimes... fuck around and be in your twenties... feelin a old man and shit... yeah for son... let em know
It's hard to breath and hard to run when your lung's Coughing up like what the fuck happened Raising my risk of the answer homie But after drinking something there's nothing like a bogie Now I can blame the product placement in movies, Or the commercials, or in a jacuzzi But now I'm it Damn I a never took that first cigarette
(I a mistake)
I fucked up, like your girl was on top of me I should of took her to trial and never copped a But ain't a Christian nation motherfucka please America never me to turn the other cheek Cause I'm from Harlem, the of Manhattan We niggas 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, I first met her Rockin stockings and poppin out of the school sweater Mom her she could do better than a criminal Seventeen year-old psychotic, to be lyrical I never meant to break her or fuck up her life But I was careless, of treating her right I seen her workin it, club strippin and wondered If I could made her life different
(I a mistake... yes I did... )
[Tech over the beat: shortie, you got me on some singin the blues shit... but you gotta stop looking backwards and remember to ahead... this is for all my dudes on in the desert right now... for real]
(I a mistake)
Yeah..yeah... I joined the army looking for to go to college But ain't pay me a quarter of what they fucking promised Extended my tour, treating me like a That's the reason officers get motherfucker Don't give me on how you respect and you love me But no body in a lightly armored humvee?! My family's lonely and you want me to for 30 grand homie?
(I a mistake)
When I was young I got signed to a label The deal looked so good when it was on the It paid for my cable, cribs, cars and The studios, the women nothing they wouldn't do for me stop screwing me for publishing the royalties How the fuck are you my dawg, when no loyalty? to the street I should've independent like Immortal Technique
(I a mistake)
Some learn from mistakes and don't repeat them Others try to block the memories and delete them But I keep em as a they not killing me And I God for teaching me humility Son, remember when you fight to be To see things how are and not how you like em to be Cause even when the is falling on top of me Pessimism is an emotion, not a Knowing what's wrong doesn't imply that you And its another, when you suffer to it in life But I'm no And I'm never gonna make the same mistake twice