Mistakes-Immortal Technique

[ti:Mistakes] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:The 3rd World] [by:] [offset:0] [00:23.24]It's hard to breath and hard to run when your lungs black and [00:25.80]Coughing up blood like what the f**k happened [00:27.61]Raising my wrist to cancer's the answer homie [00:29.78] [00:47.11]But after drinking something it's nothing like puffin a bogie [00:50.11]Now I could blame the same product placements in movies [00:52.67]All the commercials or scarface in a jacuzzi [00:55.63]But now I'm living it damn I shoulda never took that first cigarette [00:59.57] [01:01.38]I f**ked up like your girl was riding on top of me [01:04.69]I shoulda took her to trial and never copped a plea [01:07.76]But this ain't a Christian nation motherf**ker please [01:09.44]America never taught me to turn the other cheek [01:12.07]Cause I'm from Harlem the north of Manhattan [01:14.13]We knock niggas out and make 'em bounce like Ricky Hatton [01:17.07]But wildin' on the corner got me turned back from the Canadian border [01:21.19] [01:22.82]I knew she was a virgin when I first met her [01:25.32]Rockin stocking popping out of the catholic school sweater [01:27.63]Mom told me she could do better than a criminal [01:31.07]Seventeen year old psychotic trying to be lyrical [01:34.01]I never meant to break her heart or f**k up her life [01:37.13]But I was careless instead of treating her right [01:39.88]I seen her again at some club stripping [01:41.94]And wondered if I could have made her life different [01:43.30] [02:06.91]I joined the army looking for money to go to college [02:09.79]But they didn't pay me a quarter of what they f**king promised [02:12.86]Extended my tour treated me like a sucker [02:14.93]That's the reason offices get fragged motherf**ker [02:17.12] [02:18.19]Don't give me speeches on how you respect and you love me [02:21.43]But no body armor in a lightly armored Humvee [02:23.99]My family's lonely and you want me to re-enlist for thirty grand homie [02:27.38]When I was young I got signed to a record label [02:31.81]The deal looked so good when it was on the table [02:34.56]It paid for my cable cribs cars and jewelry the studios the women [02:38.24]There's nothing they wouldn't do for me [02:40.88]Except stop screwing me for publishing the royalties [02:42.99]How the f**k are you my dog when there's no loyalty [02:48.68] [02:51.81]Word to the street I shoulda gone independent like Immortal Technique [02:54.43]Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them [02:56.56]Others try to block the memories and just delete them [02:58.99]But I keep them as a reminder they not killing me [03:00.93]And I thank God for teaching me humility [03:02.43]Son remember when you fight to be free [03:04.62]To see things how they are and not how you like 'em to be [03:07.74]Cause even when the world is falling on top of me [03:10.50]Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy [03:12.74]Knowing what's wrong doesn't imply that you right [03:15.06]And it's another when you suffer to apply it in life [03:17.81]But I'm no rookie and I'm never gonna make the same mistake twice p**sy