The Roots - I Remember lyrics

I drew a two of hearts from a deck of cards
A stock trick from my empty repertoire
Another hopeless story, never read at all
I’m better off looking for the end
Where the credit's are
It’s a pain living life against the grain
I’m looking back, and y’all look the same
Troy, Mark, and Lil' What’s-His Name
Memory is rerunning it all
It’s the flight of my fall
And it’s right on the wall

I remember can you remember
How it was? I do remember, do you?
I remember can you remember
How it was? I do remember, do you?

I used to ride the train
To the same two stops
And look at the graffiti on the rooftops
Like the same song playing on the jukebox
Joint called "Faded Polaroids in a Shoebox"
Regardless to what the cadence is
It can’t be forgotten
Like auld acquaintances
I realize how depressing of a place it is
And, when I notice my reflection
Whose face it is

I remember can you remember
How it was? I do remember, do you?
I remember can you remember
How it was? I do remember, do you?

I remember can you remember
How it was? I do remember, do you?
I remember can you remember
How it was? I do remember, do you?

It’s only human to express the
Way you really feel
But that same humanity is my Achilles’ heel
A leopard can’t change it's spots
And never will
So I’m forever ill, now, I can never chill
What’s keeping me from breaking out
Like Benadryl
When my baptism of fire resulted in a kill
Sometimes, it’s as cut-and-dry as
A business deal you gotta cause the blood of
A close friend to spill
But, you remember still