Mistakes-Tindersticks

[00:00.02]Immortal Technique - Mistakes [00:05.02] [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 ******* 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 [00:42.55] [00:44.37]I ******* 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, mother****** 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 *******s out, and make 'em bounce like Ricky Hatton, [01:00.67]But wildin' on the corner got me turned back from the Canadian border [01:04.56] [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 ******* 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 [01:26.64] [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 ******* promised [01:55.43]Extended my tour, treated me like a sucker [01:57.90]That's the reason offices get fragged, mother****** [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? [02:10.55] [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 publi************ng the royalties [02:25.52]How the ******* are you my dog when there's no loyalty [02:28.13]Word to the street, I shoulda gone independent like Immortal Technique [02:32.45] [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, ************ [03:05.32] [03:05.88]End [03:06.45] [03:07.02]Immortal Technique - Mistakes [03:15.02]