(Yes I did... I a mistake... yes I did)
Huh..ya know living this type a life makes you grow up faster than you'd to sometimes... fuck and be in your late twenties... like a old man and shit... yeah for son... let em know
It's hard to and hard to run when your lung's blackened Coughing up blood like what the fuck Raising my risk of cancer's the answer But after drinking 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 I should 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 and never copped a plea But this ain't a nation motherfucka please America never me to turn the other cheek Cause I'm from Harlem, the north of We niggas out and make em bounce like Ricky Hattan But wildin on the court, had got me turned back from the border
(I a mistake)
I she was a virgin, when I first met her Rockin stockings and poppin out of the school sweater Mom told her she could do than a criminal Seventeen year-old psychotic, to be lyrical I never meant to break her heart or up her life But I was careless, instead of her right I seen her workin it, club strippin and wondered If I could made her life different
(I a mistake... yes I did... )
talking over the beat: Damn shortie, you got me on singin the blues shit... but you gotta stop looking backwards and to look ahead... is for all my dudes on patrol in the desert right now... for real]
(I a mistake)
Yeah..yeah... I joined the army looking for money to go to But they ain't pay me a quarter of what they promised my tour, treating me like a sucker That's the reason officers get motherfucker Don't 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 reenlist for 30 grand
(I a mistake)
I was young I got signed to a record label The looked so good when 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 stop screwing me for publishing the How the are you my dawg, when there's no loyalty? Word to the I should've gone independent like Immortal
(I a mistake)
Some people learn from mistakes and don't them Others try to block the and just delete them But I keep em as a reminder they not me And I thank God for teaching me Son, remember when you fight to be To see things how 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 wrong doesn't imply that you And its another, when you to apply it in life But I'm no And I'm never gonna make the same mistake twice