| Oh man I wish I knew, I wish I knew it then
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| But I don’t let it stop me you know I’ll be back again
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| All the mistakes I’ve made, trouble that I’ve been in
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| It shaped me into the person you see standin' here
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| I wish you knew me back when I was young
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| You could see me, and just how far I’ve come
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| So don’t judge me, you don’t know me
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| Please, oh yeah believe me
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| Yeah
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| Up to third grade it was all As, fourth and fifth grade was the hard days
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| Detention and suspension was an always, by the time high school it was the
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| hallways
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| Them was the wish I had a car days, 'cause all the stewards that was trapping
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| they was all payed
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| And we was all broke, that’s when the law broke
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| Cops catch us wouldn’t say a word like our jaw broke
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| Picture me back then, look at me right now
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| Preforming in front of twenty thousand on the mic now
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| I caught a couple cases, I had to pipe down
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| Was living in the dark I’m in the light now
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| You grind hard, then you shine harder
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| I’m going hard like my last name Carter, Dwayne, Sean, and Vin
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| Who’ll play my life if I be born again
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| Oh man I wish I knew, I wish I knew it then
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| But I don’t let it stop me you know I’ll be back again
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| All the mistakes I’ve made, trouble that I’ve been in
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| It shaped me into the person you see standin' here
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| I wish you knew me back when I was young
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| You could see me, and just how far I’ve come
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| So don’t judge me, you don’t know me
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| Please, oh yeah believe me
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| Yeah, don’t have to listen to me, you don’t have to believe a single word I say
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| No, that’s what my mother told me, still I went out and learned everything the
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| hard way
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| And I’ve been crying, no no, I’ve been crying, no no
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| Oh yeah, she told me to grow up, I grew up and stood up now each day I move up
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| again
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| I got a minute to say what I want, trying to make for everything that I’ve done
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| wrong
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| But that made me who I am, and if I broke your heart, well I’m sorry again
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| Oh man I wish I knew, I wish I knew it then
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| But I don’t let it stop me you know I’ll be back again
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| All the mistakes I’ve made, trouble that I’ve been in
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| It shaped me into the person you see standin' here
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| I wish you knew me back when I was young
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| You could see me, and just how far I’ve come
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| So don’t judge me, you don’t know me
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| Please, oh yeah believe me
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| Thinking back when I was in the trap
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| Without a dollar to my name, I wasn’t thinking rap
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| Niggas say I change, ask what I think of that
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| I say change for the better, I’m never thinking back
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| I should be a power forward
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| Shitting so much I think my toilet outta order
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| Take 'em out the box they like a fish up out the water
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| But me, I’ma survive, put that on my Ma swear to God
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| How you gonna win when you never try
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| I can see my future like I’m living in a mirage
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| Everyday I’m living life like I could never die
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| Old clothes in my closet, new whips in my garage
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| New chick in my bedroom, old chick by my side
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| New watch on my wrist saying this is my time
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| So don’t judge me, just love me
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| Their is nothing above me
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| My future so pretty, say God don’t like ugly
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| Oh man I wish I knew, I wish I knew it then
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| But I don’t let it stop me you know I’ll be back again
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| All the mistakes I’ve made, trouble that I’ve been in
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| It shaped me into the person you see standin' here
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| I wish you knew me back when I was young
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| You could see me, and just how far I’ve come
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| So don’t judge me, you don’t know me
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| Please, oh yeah believe me |