might of had about all I can take / player haters out there calling me fake / give me a break / cry me a lake or make an offer on my spot / bad as you can make it ain't as bad as it got / things I've seen come back in my dreams seems like tragedy took half of my team / little schemes that felt big when we were young and dumb and didn't understand the words we sung / far from young but can't say I'm much wiser / these days I'd rather be Pete than be Pete Miser / tried to lay low but the songs kept coming tried to move slow but my mouth kept running / a hundred miles another style spit up / and some dummy snorted all the dust that I kicked up / lifted my eyes, on nine double eye / when the sky got lit up like the 4th of July / don't know why that crosses my mind / maybe moments like that are how we mark time / hard to find much genius in the messes we make / so we're remembered by our biggest mistakes
past perfect, tense, no mistakes allowed / committed to an image so I fake it now / even if I tried I couldn't take it down / demolish, dismantle it, oh, it's so scandalous / a vandal with a heart barely made my mark / back when addicts had a strangle-hold on Paranoia Park / big missions after dark for a third-string assassin / lackin' in skills but loaded with blind passion / askin' for an ass kickin' found it twice / two hard lessons learned about the value of life / darkest days with no way to ever make it right / darkest possible outcome for futures so bright / picked fights with my prospects and usually lost / won a couple little battles at ridiculous cost / got tossed around, knocked down and beaten into shape / made whole by soul-crushing honest mistakes
credits
from Honest Mistakes,
track released January 1, 2011
written by P. Ho / Big Brother Lin Drum Music, BMI
bass: Goldxilla, piano: John Deley, choral vocals: Imani Coppola
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