[00:00.02]Immortal Technique - Mistakes
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[00:21.80]It's hard to breath and hard to run when your lungs black and
[00:25.03]Coughing up blood like, what the fuck happened?
[00:27.64]Raising my wrist to cancer's the answer homie,
[00:30.07]But after drinking something it's nothing like puffin a bogie
[00:32.98]Now I could blame the same product placements in movies,
[00:35.59]All the commercials, or scarface in a jacuzzi
[00:38.62]But now I'm living it, damn I shoulda never took that first cigarette
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[00:44.37]I fucked up, like your girl was riding on top of me,
[00:46.76]I shoulda took her to trial, and never copped a plea,
[00:49.47]But this ain't a Christian nation, motherfucker please
[00:52.24]America never taught me to turn the other cheek
[00:55.01]Cause I'm from Harlem, the north of Manhattan,
[00:57.74]We knock niggas out, and make 'em bounce like Ricky Hatton,
[01:00.67]But wildin' on the corner got me turned back from the Canadian border
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[01:05.58]I knew she was a virgin when I first met her,
[01:09.22]Rockin stocking, popping out of the catholic school sweater,
[01:11.73]Mom told me she could do better than a criminal
[01:14.32]Seventeen year old psychotic trying to be lyrical
[01:17.03]I never meant to break her heart or fuck up her life,
[01:19.85]But I was careless instead of treating her right
[01:22.32]I seen her again at some club, stripping,
[01:24.28]And wondered if I could have made her life different
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[01:50.33]I joined the army looking for money to go to college
[01:52.64]But they didn't pay me a quarter of what they fucking promised
[01:55.43]Extended my tour, treated me like a sucker
[01:57.90]That's the reason offices get fragged, motherfucker
[02:00.80]Don't give me speeches on how you respect and you love me,
[02:03.40]But no body armor in a lightly armored Humvee?
[02:06.10]My family's lonely, and you want me to re-enlist for thirty grand homie?
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[02:12.31]When I was young I got signed to a record label,
[02:14.52]The deal looked so good when it was on the table
[02:17.28]It paid for my cable, cribs, cars and jewelry, the studios, the women,
[02:21.22]There's nothing they wouldn't do for me,
[02:22.78]Except stop screwing me for publishing the royalties
[02:25.52]How the fuck are you my dog when there's no loyalty
[02:28.13]Word to the street, I shoulda gone independent like Immortal Technique
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[02:34.10]Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them,
[02:36.83]Others try to block the memories and just delete them
[02:39.33]But I keep them as a reminder they not killing me,
[02:41.95]And I thank God for teaching me humility
[02:44.71]Son remember when you fight to be free,
[02:47.21]To see things how they are, and not how you like 'em to be
[02:50.13]Cause even when the world is falling on top of me,
[02:52.98]Pessimism is an emotion, not a philosophy
[02:55.88]Knowing what's wrong, doesn't imply that you right,
[02:58.67]And it's another when you suffer to apply it in life,
[03:01.21]But I'm no rookie, and I'm never gonna make the same mistake twice, pussy
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