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Immortal Technique - Mistakes |
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It's hard to breath and hard to run when your lungs black and |
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Coughing up blood like, what the fuck happened? |
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Raising my wrist to cancer's the answer homie, |
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But after drinking something it's nothing like puffin a bogie |
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Now I could blame the same product placements in movies, |
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All the commercials, or scarface in a jacuzzi |
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But now I'm living it, damn I shoulda never took that first cigarette |
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I fucked up, like your girl was riding on top of me, |
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I shoulda took her to trial, and never copped a plea, |
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But this ain't a Christian nation, motherfucker please |
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America never taught me to turn the other cheek |
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Cause I'm from Harlem, the north of Manhattan, |
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We knock niggas out, and make 'em bounce like Ricky Hatton, |
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But wildin' on the corner got me turned back from the Canadian border |
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I knew she was a virgin when I first met her, |
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Rockin stocking, popping out of the catholic school sweater, |
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Mom told me she could do better than a criminal |
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Seventeen year old psychotic trying to be lyrical |
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I never meant to break her heart or fuck up her life, |
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But I was careless instead of treating her right |
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I seen her again at some club, stripping, |
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And wondered if I could have made her life different |
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I joined the army looking for money to go to college |
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But they didn't pay me a quarter of what they fucking promised |
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Extended my tour, treated me like a sucker |
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That's the reason offices get fragged, motherfucker |
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Don't give me speeches on how you respect and you love me, |
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But no body armor in a lightly armored Humvee? |
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My family's lonely, and you want me to re-enlist for thirty grand homie? |
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When I was young I got signed to a record label, |
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The deal looked so good when it was on the table |
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It paid for my cable, cribs, cars and jewelry, the studios, the women, |
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There's nothing they wouldn't do for me, |
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Except stop screwing me for publishing the royalties |
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How the fuck are you my dog when there's no loyalty |
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Word to the street, I shoulda gone independent like Immortal Technique |
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Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them, |
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Others try to block the memories and just delete them |
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But I keep them as a reminder they not killing me, |
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And I thank God for teaching me humility |
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Son remember when you fight to be free, |
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To see things how they are, and not how you like 'em to be |
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Cause even when the world is falling on top of me, |
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Pessimism is an emotion, not a philosophy |
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Knowing what's wrong, doesn't imply that you right, |
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And it's another when you suffer to apply it in life, |
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But I'm no rookie, and I'm never gonna make the same mistake twice, pussy |
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Immortal Technique - Mistakes |
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