(Yes I did... I a mistake... yes I did)
Huh..ya know living this type a life makes you grow up than you'd expect to sometimes... fuck and be in your late twenties... feelin a old man and shit... yeah for real son... let em
It's hard to breath and hard to run when lung's blackened Coughing up blood what the fuck happened Raising my risk of cancer's the homie But after drinking something there's nothing like 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 took that first cigarette
(I a mistake)
I fucked up, your girl was riding on top of me I of took her to trial and never copped a plea But this ain't a Christian nation please America never taught me to turn the cheek Cause I'm from Harlem, the of Manhattan We knock niggas out and make em bounce Ricky Hattan But on the court, had got me turned back from the Canadian border
(I a mistake)
I knew she was a virgin, I first met her Rockin stockings and poppin out of the catholic sweater Mom told her she do better than a criminal Seventeen psychotic, trying to be lyrical 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 strippin and If I could have made her life
(I a mistake... yes I did... )
[Tech talking over the 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 the army looking for money to go to college But they ain't pay me a of what they fucking promised Extended my tour, treating me like a That's the reason officers get fragged Don't give me on how you respect and you love me But no armor in a lightly armored humvee?! My lonely and you want me to reenlist for 30 grand homie?
(I a mistake)
I was young I got signed to a record label The deal so good when it was on the table It paid for my cable, cribs, cars and The studios, the women there's they wouldn't do for me stop screwing me for publishing the royalties How the fuck are you my dawg, when there's no Word to the I should've independent like Immortal Technique
(I a mistake)
Some people learn from mistakes and repeat them Others try to block the memories and just delete But I keep em as a reminder they not me And I thank God for teaching me Son, remember you fight to be free To see things how are and not how you like em to be Cause even when the world is on top of me is an emotion, not a philosophy Knowing what's wrong imply that you right And its another, when you suffer to apply it in But I'm no And I'm never gonna make the same mistake pussy