What If - K Rino

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