Yesterday

If I only knew then what I know now*
 [bad word] would be so wild
 Mind of a man, soul of a child
 No clouds could rain on me
 No cuts or scrapes could leave blood stains on me
 Just imagine
 How to side step the critics, understand my own limits
 Embrace the fire when I'm thrown in it
 Move with supreme confidence, through every team in the conference
 Reconcile dreams of common sense, dominant
 No fears or insecurities, appreciate the impurities
 Build on that, never second guess it, never neglect the lesson
 On every endeavor I bless the session, man
 Y'all dont know the half of it, trying to make my renditions accurate
 Hoping I can capture it for y'all, but now it's like today is my four walls
 yesterday...
 yesterday is gone...
 {*cuts from Nas "One Mic"*}
 no time for lookin back...
 no time for lookin back...
 no time for lookin back... it's done
 yo, put my best foot forward, took two steps, toward the opposite
 back and forth with things, saw a lotta [bad word]  and I was under pressure, now I'm on top of it
 so now I'm taking all I can get
 my getaway hit the fork in the road and took the scenic route
 'tween me and you, it brought the phoenix out of me
 so partner you can hate me or love me, cause I might have been wrong
 but my heart was pure, still, I cant say I dont have regrets
 made mistakes I that wont soon forget, expectations I haven't met
 and yet, I wouldn't trade this moment, pray for atonement
 take me for what I am, a romantic but I'm not hopeless
 writing my magnum opus, either you're high pysch, or lose focus
 if you let it, some of y'all will never get it, holding on to...
 yesterday...
 yesterday is gone...
 {*cuts from Nas "One Mic"*}
 no time for lookin back...
 no time for lookin back...
 no time for lookin back... it's done
 I guess that you could say we got a history together
 so I can never forget her, not bitter
 matter of fact sometimes I still hit it
 seduced by the way that she call to come hither
 but I found out the first time I did her
 I'll never fall in love with her, she gone break your heart
 make a mark, leave, and never come back
 and its hard to say goodbye to her, nobody knows her like I knew her
 see she one of a kind, just a free spirit, embodied by these lyrics
 to some, she's not pretty, to me she's beautiful
 cause she made me what I am and taught me to be strong
 so even when she's gone, her memory lives on
 and over time eventually we lost contact, despite that
 I gotta admit, I'm still attached, but I can't take her back
 cause who I'm talking about is...
 yesterday...
 yesterday is gone...
 {*cuts from Nas "One Mic"*}
 no time for lookin back...
 no time for lookin back...
 no time for lookin back... it's done