(Yes I did... I a mistake... yes I did)
Huh..ya living this type a life makes 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
hard to breath and hard to run when your lung's blackened Coughing up like what the fuck happened my risk of cancer's the answer homie But after drinking something there's 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 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 ain't a Christian nation motherfucka please America never me to turn the other cheek I'm from Harlem, the north of Manhattan We knock out and make em bounce like 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 stockings and poppin out of the catholic school sweater Mom told her she could do better a criminal Seventeen psychotic, trying to be lyrical I never meant to break her heart or up her life But I was careless, instead of her right I her workin it, some club strippin and wondered If I could have made her 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 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 to go to college But they ain't pay me a quarter of what they promised my tour, treating me like a sucker That's the officers get fragged motherfucker Don't me speeches on how you respect and you love me But no armor in a lightly armored humvee?! My family's lonely and you want me to reenlist for 30 grand
(I a mistake)
When I was young I got signed to a label The deal looked so good when it was on the 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 the royalties How the are you my dawg, when there's no loyalty? to the street I should've gone independent Immortal Technique
(I a mistake)
Some learn from mistakes and don't repeat them Others try to block the and just delete them But I keep em as a they not killing me And I thank God for me humility Son, remember you fight to be free To see things how they are and not how you em to be Cause even 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 it in life But I'm no And I'm never gonna the same mistake twice pussy