(Yes I did... I a mistake... yes I did)
Huh..ya know living this type a life you grow up faster than you'd expect to sometimes... fuck around and be in your twenties... like a old man and shit... yeah for son... let em know
It's to breath and hard to run when your lung's blackened Coughing up blood like the fuck happened Raising my of cancer's the answer homie But drinking something there's nothing like puffing a bogie Now I can the same product placement in movies, Or the commercials, or in a jacuzzi But now I'm it Damn I should a took that first cigarette
(I a mistake)
I up, like your girl was riding on top of me I should of took her to trial and copped a plea But this a Christian nation motherfucka please America never taught me to the other cheek I'm from Harlem, the north of Manhattan We knock niggas out and make em bounce Ricky Hattan But wildin on the court, had got me turned back from the Canadian
(I a mistake)
I knew she was a virgin, when I met her Rockin and poppin out of the catholic school sweater Mom told her she could do better 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 treating her I seen her it, some club strippin and wondered If I have 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 backwards and remember to look ahead... this is for all my dudes on patrol in the desert right now... for
(I a mistake)
Yeah..yeah... I joined the army looking for to go to college But they pay me a quarter of what they fucking promised my tour, treating me like a sucker That's the reason get fragged motherfucker Don't me speeches on how you respect and you love me But no body armor in a armored humvee?! My family's and you want me to reenlist for 30 grand homie?
(I a mistake)
When I was young I got signed to a record The deal looked so when it was on the table It for my cable, cribs, cars and jewelry The studios, the women there's nothing wouldn't do for me Except stop screwing me for publishing the How the fuck are you my dawg, there's no loyalty? Word to the I should've gone independent like Technique
(I a mistake)
Some people learn from mistakes and repeat them try to block the memories and just delete them But I keep em as a reminder not killing me And I thank God for me humility Son, remember you fight to be free To see how they are and not how you like em to be even when the world is falling on top of me Pessimism is an emotion, not a Knowing what's doesn't imply that you right And its another, when you suffer to apply it in But I'm no And I'm gonna make the same mistake twice pussy