• (Yes I did... I made a mistake... yes I did)

    Huh..ya know living this type a life makes you grow up faster than you'd expect to sometimes...
    ******** around and be in your late twenties...
    feelin like a old man and s**t...
    yeah for real son... let em know

    It's hard to breath and hard to run when your lung's blackened
    Coughing up blood like what the ******** happened
    Raising my risk of cancer's the answer homie
    But after drinking something there's nothing like puffing a bogie
    Now I can blame the same product placement in movies,
    Or the commercials, or Scarface in a jacuzzi
    But now I'm living it
    Damn I should a never took that first cigarette

    (I made a mistake)

    I ******** up, like your girl was riding on top of me
    I should 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 other cheek
    Cause I'm from Harlem, the north of Manhattan
    We knock niggas out and make em bounce like Ricky Hattan
    But wildin on the court, had got me turned back from the Canadian border

    (I made a mistake)

    I knew she was a virgin, when I first met her
    Rockin stockings and poppin out of the catholic school sweater
    Mom told her she could do better than a criminal
    Seventeen year-old psychotic, trying to be lyrical
    I never meant to break her heart or ******** up her life
    But I was careless, instead of treating her right
    I seen her workin it, some club strippin and wondered
    If I could have made her life different

    (I made a mistake... yes I did... )

    [Takin' over the beat;
    Damn shortie, you got me on some singin the blues s**t...
    but you gotta stop looking backwards and remember to look ahead...
    this is for all my dudes on patrol in the desert right now... for real]

    (I made a mistake)

    Yeah..yeah... I joined the army looking for money to go to college
    But they ain't pay me a quarter of what they ******** promised
    Extended my tour, treating me like a sucker
    That's the reason officers get fragged ********
    Don't give me speeches on how you respect and you love me
    But no body armor in a lightly armored humvee?!
    My family's lonely and you want me to reenlist for 30 grand homie?

    (I made a mistake)

    When I was young I got signed to a record label
    The deal looked so good when it was on the table
    It paid for my cable, cribs, cars and jewelry
    The studios, the women there's nothing they wouldn't do for me
    Except stop screwing me for publishing the royalties
    How the ******** are you my dawg, when there's no loyalty?
    Word to the street
    I should've gone independent like Immortal Technique

    (I made a mistake)

    Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them
    Others try to block the memories and just delete them
    But I keep em as a reminder they not killing me
    And I thank God for teaching me humility
    Son, remember when you fight to be free
    To see things how they are and not how you like em to be
    Cause even when the world is falling on top of me
    Pessimism is an emotion, not a philosophy
    Knowing what's wrong doesn't imply that you right
    And its another, when you suffer to apply it in life
    But I'm no rookie
    And I'm never gonna make the same mistake twice, Phussee.