Song Description

This is a very strong world-based reality song. It talks a little about the Artists wishing they kne then what they know now. The 3rd verse has been voted most powerful reality based verse in a number of local contests.. Song was selected to be on the Tupac Shakur tribute album, "In the Shadow of an Icon" distributed by TLA / Universal / Fontana / BMG Records. "This song will move you unlike any other...The Lyrics are cutting"

Lyrics

(Hook)

I wish I knew what I know
Some things would be different now, I can say that for sho (sure)
I don't know how my life would've changed
Now that I know the real truth of the game
If I knew then what I know now
I'd make a better day, someway, somehow
I'm askin a lot, I know this is true
But still I'm askin ya'll... I wish I knew

(1st Verse)

I hate to live in the past but if I could rewind the times
I'd go back into the places where my life was defined
like the time we had sex, girl I knew we were lovers
But then it came back to bite me, should've wore me a rubber
and to my mother, I thank you, for all that you did
I never understood the pressure to raise five kids
But see you did what you did and you handled your business
The values that you taught me compounded like interest
and with that came money, and money brings power
but money brings vultures that must feed by the hour
and time is so precious, just look how we live
that's why we gotta give back to the youth and the kids
dont get rid of that innocence, ladies and gents
just because it seems common doesnt mean it makes sense
now I done spent my whole life and I'm chasing the truth
But deep down in my soul.... I wish I knew

(Hook)
(2nd Verse)

Damn Will...

I was runnin operations for situations that often require patience
when, oh god, the devastation, itcame with no hesitation
My mind went to meditation, A third state incarceration
My best friend became the patient, his ashes disenegrated
If I knew he wouldn've made it, his momma would never hurt
I'da proudly took his place and told my wife to just make it work
Cause this type of hurt dont get no bigger than this
I thought I knew, but now I know
That sometime stuff don't get no realer than this
so feel the rhythm in this
Take a long walk in my shoes and you'll be feeling this here
As an adolescent I had grown up ways
but where I'm from I had to grow up quick
So every now and then I'd show my age
My mental stage is so much stronger, ther's so much hunger
If I'da known the power of reading when I was so much younger
I'd tell the world just to keep it true
and then i'd educate my whole crew... I wish I knew

(Hook)
(3rd Verse)

Now I know I probably shouldn't feel like this
but a part of me is hurting while a part of me is pissed
I'm pissed cause the world can't see the problems
that could take us to the grave
There's a million people out there dying every year from aids
and the way we behave when it comes to politics
All that greed and corruption, man you cowards make me sick
How you call yourself a leader when your soul is so corroded
If I knew your true intentions I'd have definitely voted
Not to mention all the casualties of war
Salute to you real Soldiers dawg cause we know just who you are
See by far being broke is the quickest way to jail
Being rich in this world is the quickest way to hell
So we live and we learn, we cry and we weep
and if we ever learn our lesson we might get a chance to teach
the children of the world what they should and should not do
So they don't have to grow up saying, "I wish I knew"

(Hook)