From Scratch Lyrics - Mase

Yo, just think if you could rewind time 

And start your life all over again 

What would you give and what would you keep? 

You heard me, what would you keep? 

Yo, yo, if I could go back, I wouldn'ta sold no crack 

Wouldn'ta never put my hands around no gat 

But you know Loon, bein' all hard-headed 

And don't listen, even if God said it 

I didn't have to stick with folks that sniff no coke 

I didn't have to fix the block when shit was broke 

Same cats I helped was twistin' smoke 

Now imagine if I went to school, went to class 

'Stead of bein' a young cat sent to blast 

Sent to slash criminal's necks in half 

For playin' dumb when I come to collect my cash 

And 'cuz of that cats will respect my past, I ain't playin' 

If I start from scratch I'd sign with Def Jam 

Nah, fuck am I saying? Puff's the best man 

Plus I'mma Bad Boy, I'm more like a bad man 

Put mo' nigga's in pits than Brad, man 

Can't dodge bullets? Too bad, man 

Shit, I'd a copped the five instead of the six 

That way wouldn't of crashed and killed my cousin 

Keep quiet instead of having the industry buzzin' 

Do a devil's advocate style, don't let 'em see you comin' 

Use the revolver when bustin' and sluggin', that way no evidence 

But fuck it, got money to be tried, worse come to worse 

Who God bless, no man curse, hatin' niggas, lay in the dirt 

Yo, if you could start your life from scratch 

Rewind time and still go back 

What would you change in the way that you live today 

And what would you leave right where it's at? 

If you could start your life from scratch 

Rewind time and still go back 

What would you change in the way that you live today 

And what would you leave right where it's at? 

Come on, come on 

Yo, if I could start life from scratch, I wouldn't change shit 

Same gun, same clip, same dumb bitch 

All Out, Harlem World, same old clique 

Same old studio, same old shit 

Shit don't change just because a cop took six to the brain 

Meeno got a lawyer, man, I'm hip to the game 

You could find a gun, but if my prints ain't on that thing 

What is you sayin'? 

And on the same block that I get my glocks from 

You see the same cop that get popped with the shot gun 

And at the same bodega I got my tops from 

I give the same old money to the same cop's bum 

If I could start from scratch, I'd bring daddy back 

And put five in the first cat that show mami crack 

I sit back and listen to them drunks on the block 

Tryin' to school me with jewels, tellin' me who to watch 

I killed five people, I'd let survive 

And the five I took away, I'd a left alive 

If I could do all it again I'd bring Virg' back 

Or I switch places with him, I hope you heard that 

I would have preferred that, I ain't have to starve 

Pitch crack, have to rob and catch a charge 

And I'd do it all again if I had to 

Pitch no-win to win, and I'd be glad to 

And I'd hit every target I took aim at 

But I'd still be a problem, you can't change that 

I'm a problem 

Yo, if you could start your life from scratch 

Rewind time and still go back 

What would you change in the way that you live today 

And what would you leave right where it's at? 

If you could start your life from scratch 

Rewind time and still go back 

What would you change in the way that you live today 

And what would you leave right where it's at? 

Come on, come on 

Yo, 'cuz half the cats that flip, we all was cool 

And half the chicks I hit, they teased me in school 

I got a baby by a lady I don't even love a lot 

Wish I wore three rubbers 'case the first rubber popped 

But you can't cry now, milk already spilt 

I had eleven friends and ten already killed 

Went down south and I ain't feel the guilt 

And I ain't ready to war but that ain't the way built 

And for all the nights and all the fights 

That I had for all this money over all these dice 

All my cars and homes and all my ice 

If I could do it all again, I'd do it all for Christ 

Whoever thought the limelight or the super-stardom 

Whoever thought there'd be a problem comin' through Harlem 

Can't even chill, cats wanna make me a villain 

Cats that I grew up with I gotta contemplate killin' 

Nobody love me, I'm my own mister and on my own, mister 

Mama did what she could but now I'm grown, mister 

Though she told me once, wish she'd told me then 

Though I'm the youngest, I'mma grow to be the oldest man 

And cats thinkin' they gon' win 'cuz they veterans 

Ain't about age at this stage, man with the most cheddar win 

How you live right? Every day get in bigger sin 

How you say no at the door screamin', "Let me in? 

From the outside it's lookin' gooder than it ever been 

But tell the truth, when I was broke it was better then 

All Out, 33rd street 

Yo, if you could start your life from scratch 

Rewind time and still go back 

What would you change in the way that you live today 

And what would you leave right where it's at? 

If you could start your life from scratch 

Rewind time and still go back 

What would you change in the way that you live today 

And what would you leave right where it's at? 

Come on, come on