Learn from my mistakes before you end up here
Life behind these gates doin' years and years and years
Mama lost her son to a gambler
Thugged out got me feelin' like the man though
It is what it is, what I am though
Never asked a soul for a hand out
Sold crack to the task force
Survivin' on my own didn't ask for it
Just do it like Air Force 1
Like cancer no cure for it
Vandalized gotta a year for it
Wrong choice now I'm here for it
Sixteen got years on it
Made it out the hood cuz I'm here homie
By the iron, by the iron you get killed
I lost a scholarship for a drill
Forgot to spread the fakes and the real
Should've took six for the deal
Learn from my mistakes before you end up here
Life behind these gates doin' years and years and years
Learn from my mistakes before you end up here
Life behind these gates doin' years and years and years
Married to the money it was mando
Itching for some healing need it pronto
Vision gettin' blurry, eyes wide though
Wont' get me far but in the pen or the ground though
Couldn't slow down cuz life short
Wish I could have paid my mind more
Instead I was hurtin' my mom's
Committin' these crimes, committin' these crimes more
Wish I could have done right for I lost my granny though
Now I feelin' pain coz I did her wrong
I should have changed then not later on
Got goons tellin' stories about me over phones
Baby, he was shootin' this 'aint what he asked for
Learn from my mistakes
Live your life, expand your mind more
Learn from my mistakes before you end up here
Life behind these gates doin' years and years and years
Learn from my mistakes before you end up here
Life behind these gates doin' years and years and years learn
