remember when

, when it was 1992, two little kids stealing records, skipping school, we must have been like only ten, taking life for granted till we learn it had an end, and time is something they say, you never appreciate till you age, and to this day you never knew, i wanted to be just like you, if i only knew, then what i know now, then what i know now, if i only knew, then what i know now, then what i know now, when it was 2002, you started slinging coke and got the dopest pair of shoes, but yo this house just ain't a home, since our father hit the bottle and our mother hit the road, and time is something they say, you never understand until it slips away, and looking back i think you knew, i wanted to be just like you, if i only knew, then what i know now, then what i know now, if i only knew, then what i know now, then what i know now, and now i'm tired of the violence, i'm so tired of the sirens, and it's better me, better me than you, now i'm tired of the violence, i'm so tired of the sirens, and it's better me, better me than you, slipping and we're falling, slipping and we're falling through our lives, slipping and we're falling, don't know where we're going with our lives, if i only knew, then what i know now, then what i know now, if i only knew, then what i know now, then what i know now, now i'm tired of the violence, i'm so tired of the sirens, and it's better me, better me than you, now i'm tired of the violence, i'm so tired of the sirens, and it's better me, better me than you, slipping and we're falling, slipping and we're falling through our lives, slipping and we're falling, don't know where we're going with our lives, slipping and we're falling, slipping and we're falling through our lives