[Mase]
Yo, just think if you could rewind time
And start your life all over again
What would you give and what would you keep?
You heard me, what would you keep?
[Loon]
Yo, yo, if I could go back, I wouldnīta sold no crack
Wouldnīta never put my hands around no gat
But you know Loon, beinī all hard-headed
And donīt listen, even if God said it
I didnīt have to stick with folks that sniff no coke
I didnīt have to fix the block when shit was broke
Same cats I helped was twistinī smoke
Now imagine if I went to school, went to class
īStead of beinī a young cat sent to blast
Sent to slash criminalīs necks in half
For playinī dumb when I come to collect my cash
And cuz of that cats will respect my past, I ainīt playinī
[Shyne]
If I start from scratch Iīd sign with Def Jam
Nah, fuck am I saying? Puffīs the best man
Plus Iīmma Bad Boy, Iīm more like a bad man
Put moī niggaīs in pits than Brad, man
Canīt dodge bullets? Too bad, man
Shit, Iīd a copped the five instead of the six
That way wouldnīt of crashed and killed my cousin
Keep quiet instead of having the industry buzzinī
Do a devilīs advocate style, donīt let īem see you cominī
Use the revolver when bustinī and slugginī
That way no evidence
But fuck it, got money to be tried, worse come to worse
Who God bless, no man curse, hatinī niggas, lay in the dirt
[Mase & Meeno]
Yo, if you could start your life from scratch (What? What?)
Rewind time and still go back (Itīs time to eat)
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where itīs at?
If you could start your life from scratch (What? What?)
Rewind time and still go back (About to kill it)
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where itīs at?
Come on, come on
[Meeno]
Yo, if I could start life from scratch, I wouldnīt change shit
Same gun, same clip, same dumb bitch
All Out, Harlem World, same old clique
Same old studio, same old shit
Shit donīt change just because a cop took six to the brain
Meeno got a lawyer, man Iīm hip to the game
You could find a gun, but if my prints ainīt on that thing
What is you sayinī?
And on the same block that I get my glocks from
You see the same cop that get popped with the shot gun
([Mysonne:] Mysonne)
And at the same bodega I got my tops from
([Mysonne:] Mysonne)
I give the same old money to the same copīs bum
[Mysonne]
If I could start from scratch, Iīd bring daddy back
And put five in the first cat that show mami crack
I sit back and listen to them drunks on the block
Tryinī to school me with jewels, tellinī me who to watch
I killed five people, Iīd let survive
And the five I took away, Iīd a left alive
If I could do all it again Iīd bring Virgī back
Or I switch places with him, I hope you heard that
I would have prefered that, I ainīt have to starve
Pitch crack, have to rob and catch a charge
And Iīd do it all again if I had to
Pitch no-win to win, and Iīd be glad to
And Iīd hit every target I took aim at
But Iīd still be a problem, you canīt change that
Iīm a problem
[Mase]
Yo, if you could start your life from scratch (Uh)
Rewind time and still go back (All Out)
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where itīs at? (And Double Up)
If you could start your life from scratch (Bad Boy, Bad Boy)
Rewind time and still go back
(Yo, I really donīt know whatīs goinī on)
What would you change in the way that you live today
(Iīm tellinī ya, I really donīt know whatīs goinī on)
And what would you leave right where itīs at?
Come on, come on
[Mase]
Yo, cuz half the cats that flip, we all was cool
And half the chicks I hit, they teased me in school
I got a baby by a lady I donīt even love alot
Wish I wore three rubbers īcase the first rubber popped
But you canīt cry now, milk already spilt
I had eleven friends and ten already killed
Went down south and I ainīt feel the guilt
And I ainīt ready to war but that ainīt the way built
And for all the nights and all the fights
That I had for all this money over all these dice
All my cars and homes and all my ice
If I could do it all again, Iīd do it all for Christ
Whoever thought the limelight or the super-stardom
Whoever thought thereīd be a problem cominī through Harlem
Canīt even chill, cats wanna make me a villian
Cats that I grew up with I gotta contemplate killinī
Nobody love me, Iīm my own mister, and on my own, mister
Mama did what she could but now Iīm grown, mister
Though she told me once, wish sheīd told me then
Though Iīm the youngest, Iīmma grow to be the oldest man
And cats thinkinī they gonī win cuz they veterans
Ainīt about age at this stage, man with the most cheddar win
How you live right? Every day get in bigger sin
How you say no at the door screaminī "Let me in"?
From the outside itīs lookinī gooder than it ever been
But tell the truth, when I was broke it was better then
All Out, 33rd street
[Mase]
Yo, if you could start your life from scratch
Rewind time and still go back
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where itīs at?
If you could start your life from scratch
Rewind time and still go back
What would you change in the way that you live today
And what would you leave right where itīs at?
Come on, come on