Jeru the Damaja - IF (IF WAS) lyrics

I don't know what you've been told
Things get rough and life can be cold
No excuses take control
If you don't for sure you're gone fold
I don't know what you've been told
Things get rough and life can be cold
No excuses take control
If you don't for sure you're gone fold

If I knew what I know now
I wouldn't move how I move now
Trial and error equal know-how
When you're young, you think you know how
Good advice seldom taken
So loud
And so proud
Making moves with the in-crowd
But watch them, friends
In the end
Them friends can be so foul
Yea, them friends can be so foul
Smiling in your face
But wanna see you in the ground
Steal ya crown
Lay ya women down
That's right
The same ones you hang around
Yea, it hurts
I ain't even gonna fuck around
We all fall
Just make sure you get up off that ground
And believe me, what comes around goes around
In the meantime
If you don't swim, you drown
Keep it moving when things get rough
If was a spliff
We'd all get fucked

I don't know what you've been told
Things get rough and life can be cold
No excuses take control
If you don't for sure you're gone fold
I don't know what you've been told
Things get rough and life can be cold
No excuses take control
If you don't for sure you're gone fold

If I knew what I know now
I wouldn't do how I do now
Wouldn't be the same Jeru now
Cause every day is a test
And everything you get out of life
You manifest
Some stress but so blessed
Still here
A lot of my peers met death
Learning's an everyday process
And if you know more than yesterday
Then that's progress
See, knowledge is wondrous
Understanding is luminescence
Some times it seems
It's more pain than blessings
But I ignore the pain
That's when it starts raining blessings
So, I'm grateful for my life lessons
Heartache and deceptions
There's god in we
And I'm a keep reppin'
You gotta, keep it moving when things get tough
And if, if was a fifth
The world would be drunk!

I don't know what you've been told
Things get rough and life can be cold
No excuses take control
If you don't for sure you're gone fold
I don't know what you've been told
Things get rough and life can be cold
No excuses take control
If you don't for sure you're gone fold