(Yes I did... I a mistake... yes I did)
Huh..ya know 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 blood like what the happened my risk of cancer's the answer homie But after something there's nothing 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 should a never took first cigarette
(I a mistake)
I up, like your girl was riding on top of me I should of took her to and never copped a plea But ain't a Christian nation motherfucka please America never taught me to turn the cheek Cause I'm from Harlem, the of Manhattan We knock niggas out and em bounce like Ricky Hattan But wildin on the court, had got me back from the Canadian 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 better than a Seventeen year-old psychotic, to be lyrical I never to break her heart or fuck up her life But I was careless, instead of treating her I seen her it, some club strippin and wondered If I have made her life different
(I a mistake... yes I did... )
[Tech over the beat: Damn shortie, you got me on singin the blues shit... but you gotta stop backwards and remember to look ahead... this is for all my 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 of what they fucking promised Extended my tour, me like a sucker That's the reason officers get motherfucker Don't give me on how you respect and you love me But no body in a lightly armored 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 when it was on the It for my cable, cribs, cars and jewelry The studios, the women there's nothing they do for me Except screwing me for publishing the royalties How the are you my dawg, when there's no loyalty? Word to the I should've gone independent Immortal Technique
(I a mistake)
Some people learn mistakes and don't repeat them Others try to the memories and just delete them But I keep em as a they not killing me And I thank God for teaching me Son, remember you fight to be free To see how they 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 that you right And its another, you suffer to apply it in life But I'm no And I'm never gonna make the mistake twice pussy