take a look back

take a look back, yeah!, take a look, just slip back, too late, you never know, yeah!, never go back but i think back, hear a song on the radio from the past and get a flashback, cinematic when it plays back, write a story of my life and be the soundtrack, 11 - 46 central on a school night i used to sneak out the window, i was little, my brother neil was in the middle, on the bottom bunk, roof where i wrote my riddles, get a chill every time i get a visual, used to think i was invincible, everyday shoplifting competition at the mall was the ritual, never won, i never made a good criminal, got a problem at the school with the principal, and back then all the music was original, i was young and dumb, the future was invisible, take a look back, take a look back, never go back, when i reminisce about those passed, thinking it's a trip how fast we live, flashing back to the sandbox with my clothes dirty, and my jeans was ripped, swinging on the monkey bars trying to keep my grip, jump on the trampoline till my knees give in, always physical, i was a little crazy kid, then i got into the music and i found my niche, found a gift, could've found a ditch, even when bullets came in my direction, somehow they missed, tried to grab me and stab me, somehow they slipped, like a force-field, stayed the course at the lord's will, even when it's over, i'mma go to war still, even when i'm gone i'll be making noise still, i could never live forever but the voice will, always knew i'd be somebody that the world feeled, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, i admit sometimes i speed for no reason, sometimes i roll up the weed for no reason, take a breath of fresh air for no reason, cause you never know when you're gonna be leaving, so i get it with the old clique, and reminisce while we're thumbing through a box full of old flicks, laughing at the funny clothes and the outfits, take a look back, take a look back, yeah they say time keep on slipping, but i'm sunk in the coupe, i just keep on dipping, switching up the gears, i keep on shifting, daydreams, my mind it keeps on drifting, like j dilla i'mma keep living, never feel like a beat's finished, i'm a perfectionist, never really happy with it so i'll mess with it, it's a god-given talent, i was blessed with it, thinking back from the past occurrences, it's endless, i can only scratch the surface, but it's a new day so i let the sun shine, through the window when i crack the curtains, only death is certain, only tax is certain, take a break for a minute then it's back to work, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now, take a look back at your life now