(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 around and be in late twenties... feelin a old man and shit... yeah for real son... let em
It's hard to breath and to run when your lung's blackened Coughing up blood like the fuck happened Raising my of cancer's the answer homie But after something there's nothing like puffing a bogie Now I can blame the same product in movies, Or the commercials, or in a jacuzzi 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 nation motherfucka please America taught me to turn the other cheek Cause I'm Harlem, the north of Manhattan 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 knew she was a virgin, when I met her Rockin stockings and poppin out of the catholic school Mom her she could do better than a criminal Seventeen year-old psychotic, trying to be I never meant to her heart or fuck up her life But I was careless, instead of her right I seen her workin it, some club 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 singin the shit... but you gotta stop backwards and remember to look 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 of what they fucking promised my tour, treating me like a sucker That's the reason officers get fragged Don't give me speeches on how you 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 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 stop screwing me for publishing the royalties How the are you my dawg, when there's no loyalty? Word to the I should've gone like Immortal Technique
(I a mistake)
Some people learn mistakes and don't repeat them Others try to block the and just delete them But I keep em as a reminder not killing me And I thank God for teaching me Son, remember you fight to be free To see things how they are and not how you em to be Cause even when the 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 suffer to it in life But I'm no And I'm never gonna make the same twice pussy