K-Rino - What If lyrics

You ever wonder what if you
Could go back in time
And change the situation? Would
It make things better
Or would it make things worse? Listen

The other night I had a vision of
My whole life, joy, pain
Hate and giving love
Pictured the bad side and I wish
That I could change things soon as I did
I went comatose and drifted into a dream
Soon as I came to, I looked up and seen
A dope fiend that I grew up with
He was clean and
Why was I seeing this? What could it mean?
I was living the flashback
Reenacting the past scene
Right back to the day crack
Took over his mind
Had the chance to stop my boy before
He hit it for the first time
I called out to him and got his attention
Viewed my presence as a
Method of divine intervention
Told him his wife was looking for
Him and she needed him quick
Made up a lie, told him to get home
Said his baby was sick
He went home and never ever put
The pipe to his face
But his little sister came through later
And ended up taking his place we wonder

What if you could go back in time
And relive moments you left behind?
Would life be better somehow
Knowing then what you know now?

What if you could go back again
And keep so many things from happening?
What if you could go back in time?

Now, next thing you know I
Quantum leap through the dark
I was mobbing with my OGs
We was back in The Park
I’m at the club with my homeboy, 1993
It was the night he first met
His baby mama to be four children later
Homie went from balling to broke
‘cause she was stangin’ him for child
Support on all of ‘em, loc
He be saying if he could go back
He never would meet her
Knew I was flashing back and seen a
Chance for me to delete her
Soon as he got ready to step to her
I made up a tale
Told him her boyfriend was a killer
That just raised out of jail
And he don’t bar busting a cap
And going right back in
That’s when he changed his mind and
Never thought about her again
I was happy because I saved him
Proud of what I had did
He can’t miss what he never had
But, I could picture his kids in the end
I still lost something I tried to protect
Instead of riding with her
He left drunk and died in a wreck we wonder

What if you could go back in time
And relive moments you left behind?
Would life be better somehow
Knowing then what you know now?

What if you could go back again
And keep so many things from happening?
What if you could go back in time?

I started wondering about the deepness of man
Do we control our destiny or
Are the secrets as planned?
Is it right to try to
Tap into the mystery source
And with no remorse attempt
To alter history’s course?
Would it be cool if we could
Travel back and relive events
Now we resenting change
A pattern that was possibly meant
If you could take a negative part
Of your life and remove it
Is it guaranteed what you replace
It with would improve it?
How many lives mighta been saved
How many mighta been?
How many great men and women might
Not have ever been born?
If you get rid of all your
Struggles and all of your strife
You couldn’t fully appreciate what
You accomplish in life
If you could redo your existence
Would it properly suit ya?
Realize you can’t change the past
But, you control the future
Truth is, once the time pass
Ain’t no going back
So be grateful for what you are, homie
And build on that we wonder

What if you could go back in time
And relive moments you left behind?
Would life be better somehow
Knowing then what you know now?

Yeah, ay, time is not reversible, man
You can only look forward
Live for today and the future
Don’t live in the past
Look to the past to learn from your mistakes
But build on that, mane, ay