I won't be falling for those same mistakes.
Always running back
But you're running another way to pass the breaks
I remember as a kid with my nose running
Girls used to run from me
That was the problem, my pockets had no money
My skin was like chocolate
My hair felt like carpet
Family of four livin' in the one room apartment
Why they all shot the target
Salvation not be my shopping spree
The only time with my family
It felt like we won the lottery
My friends commitin' these felonies
Sellin' drugs, robberies
Livin' the government property
But I there was no point like autery
Even though we was stressin' still counted our blessings
Left the life of oppression
To a life of deppression
I went from the tension
Then to gettin' arrested
Mother pray for repentance to learn it from every lesson now we ooon
I won't be fallin' for those same mistakes
Always running backwards and running another way
To pad the breaks
Now my time has come
To follow the sparks until we shine
Close my eyes
And picture the dark we left behind
I'm never looking back oooohh ooohhh
I'm never looking back oooohh ooohhh
Now parden me for my bitterness
Now parden me i'm not dealin' whits
Now stuff I seen i'm not speakin' of
Just to stop i'm not pitchen rest
But still I kept the brush in my fingers
Stop don't crush what i'm dreamin' of
At night I was speakin' of