Song lyrics downloaded from: https://www.albumsongandlyrics.com ------------------------------------------ Ma$e - From scratch ------------------------------------------ [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? [Loon] Yo, yo, if I could go back, I wouldnīta sold no crack Wouldnīta never put my hands around no gat But you know Loon, beinī all hard-headed And donīt listen, even if God said it I didnīt have to stick with folks that sniff no coke I didnīt have to fix the block when shit was broke Same cats I helped was twistinī smoke Now imagine if I went to school, went to class īStead of beinī a young cat sent to blast Sent to slash criminalīs necks in half For playinī dumb when I come to collect my cash And cuz of that cats will respect my past, I ainīt playinī [Shyne] If I start from scratch Iīd sign with Def Jam Nah, fuck am I saying? Puffīs the best man Plus Iīmma Bad Boy, Iīm more like a bad man Put moī niggaīs in pits than Brad, man Canīt dodge bullets? Too bad, man Shit, Iīd a copped the five instead of the six That way wouldnīt of crashed and killed my cousin Keep quiet instead of having the industry buzzinī Do a devilīs advocate style, donīt let īem see you cominī Use the revolver when bustinī and slugginī That way no evidence But fuck it, got money to be tried, worse come to worse Who God bless, no man curse, hatinī niggas, lay in the dirt [Mase & Meeno] Yo, if you could start your life from scratch (What? What?) Rewind time and still go back (Itīs time to eat) What would you change in the way that you live today And what would you leave right where itīs at? If you could start your life from scratch (What? What?) Rewind time and still go back (About to kill it) What would you change in the way that you live today And what would you leave right where itīs at? Come on, come on [Meeno] Yo, if I could start life from scratch, I wouldnīt change shit Same gun, same clip, same dumb bitch All Out, Harlem World, same old clique Same old studio, same old shit Shit donīt change just because a cop took six to the brain Meeno got a lawyer, man Iīm hip to the game You could find a gun, but if my prints ainīt on that thing What is you sayinī? And on the same block that I get my glocks from You see the same cop that get popped with the shot gun ([Mysonne:] Mysonne) And at the same bodega I got my tops from ([Mysonne:] Mysonne) I give the same old money to the same copīs bum [Mysonne] If I could start from scratch, Iīd 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 Tryinī to school me with jewels, tellinī me who to watch I killed five people, Iīd let survive And the five I took away, Iīd a left alive If I could do all it again Iīd bring Virgī back Or I switch places with him, I hope you heard that I would have prefered that, I ainīt have to starve Pitch crack, have to rob and catch a charge And Iīd do it all again if I had to Pitch no-win to win, and Iīd be glad to And Iīd hit every target I took aim at But Iīd still be a problem, you canīt change that Iīm a problem [Mase] Yo, if you could start your life from scratch (Uh) Rewind time and still go back (All Out) What would you change in the way that you live today And what would you leave right where itīs at? (And Double Up) If you could start your life from scratch (Bad Boy, Bad Boy) Rewind time and still go back (Yo, I really donīt know whatīs goinī on) What would you change in the way that you live today (Iīm tellinī ya, I really donīt know whatīs goinī on) And what would you leave right where itīs at? Come on, come on [Mase] 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 donīt even love alot Wish I wore three rubbers īcase the first rubber popped But you canīt cry now, milk already spilt I had eleven friends and ten already killed Went down south and I ainīt feel the guilt And I ainīt ready to war but that ainīt 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, Iīd do it all for Christ Whoever thought the limelight or the super-stardom Whoever thought thereīd be a problem cominī through Harlem Canīt even chill, cats wanna make me a villian Cats that I grew up with I gotta contemplate killinī Nobody love me, Iīm my own mister, and on my own, mister Mama did what she could but now Iīm grown, mister Though she told me once, wish sheīd told me then Though Iīm the youngest, Iīmma grow to be the oldest man And cats thinkinī they gonī win cuz they veterans Ainīt 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 screaminī "Let me in"? From the outside itīs lookinī gooder than it ever been But tell the truth, when I was broke it was better then All Out, 33rd street [Mase] 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 itīs 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 itīs at? Come on, come on