(Yes I did... I a mistake... yes I did)
Huh..ya know living type a life makes you grow up faster than you'd expect to sometimes... around and be in your late twenties... feelin a old man and shit... for real son... let em know
It's hard to and hard to run when your lung's blackened Coughing up blood like what the happened Raising my risk of cancer's the homie But after drinking something there's like puffing 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 girl was riding on top of me I of took her to trial and never copped a plea But this ain't a Christian motherfucka please America never taught me to the other cheek Cause I'm from Harlem, the of Manhattan We knock niggas out and make em like 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 stockings and poppin out of the school sweater Mom told her she could do better than a Seventeen year-old psychotic, trying to be I never to break her heart or fuck up her life But I was careless, of treating her right I her workin it, some club strippin and wondered If I have made her life different
(I a mistake... yes I did... )
[Tech talking the beat: Damn shortie, you got me on some 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 for money to go to college But they ain't pay me a quarter of what they promised Extended my tour, treating me like a That's the reason get fragged motherfucker give me speeches on how you respect and you love me But no body armor in a lightly 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 record The deal looked so good it was on the table It paid for my cable, cribs, 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 gone independent like Immortal Technique
(I a mistake)
Some learn from mistakes and don't repeat them Others try to block the memories and just delete But I keep em as a reminder not killing me And I God for teaching me humility Son, remember when you to be free To see things how they are and not how you em to be Cause when the world is falling on top of me is an emotion, not a philosophy Knowing what's doesn't imply that you right And its another, when you to apply it in life But I'm no And I'm never gonna make the same mistake twice