Looking Back

Verse 1 (Donte)
I quit looking back to look forward toward a future
My friends ain’t got to be the enemy to shoot ya
My nuckas ain’t got to push packs to get racks
From hopeless to focused we making hit tracks
Used to rob women now they dress them up in linen
Swimming in exotic waters none of y’all been in
Carnally sinning from beginning to the ending
Forgive me Lord I’m down on one knee bending
The other one stuck in the game and keep spending
When my time come hope you in the mood for mending
‘Cause my pain feel so real while they pretending
The world getting smaller, my family extended
Fatherless, childless, look like my only image is antique and vintage
My whole soul blemished
Looking back
Looking forward to what I’m looking at
I write my life like a chapter in the Book of Rap

Hook (Mellow Drum Addict)
Looking back, looking back, looking back now I can see
It wasn’t how it’s supposed to be
It wasn’t how it’s supposed to be
Looking back, looking back, looking back now I can see
It wasn’t how it’s supposed to be
Just look closely

Verse 2 (Cas Metah)
My life is like a slide show
Moving forward I can see where ever I go
From where I been
Hind sight gives an eye full
I’d be a fool not to remove the blind fold but the pipes are ice cold
Need the pilot light ignited in my soul
So I can try to fight the rival in my dome
I know I should know all of them sly holds
Still I get convicted and end up in trials
Denials my best friend
Told him I don’t want to kick it no more, he just don’t ever get the message
Been to the school of hard knocks but didn’t ever get the lessons
It’s like I only went on test days
Damn man, I should’ve wrote them essays
I could’ve would’ve if I wasn’t always stressing
Going under with my evanescence
Second guessing the Heavens

Hook (Mellow Drum Addict)
Looking back, looking back, looking back now I can see
It wasn’t how it’s supposed to be
It wasn’t how it’s supposed to be
Looking back, looking back, looking back now I can see
It wasn’t how it’s supposed to be
Just look closely

Verse 3 (Thee Tom Hardy)
Look close, I’m glancing back at the past
With the perfect hind sight vision through the looking glass
Sleeping during classing thinking this is not for me
And this is not the path so I veered off it
Barely made it with my peers walking
Across stage at the graduation
Wasn’t trying to go to school I was salivating
Over the prospect of performing on different stages
I was so outrageous, and not the least bit patient
A go getter when I started
Started from the bottom of the totem then I climbed up microphone controlling
Took it to a level
And what I did next I won’t do again ever
Got content and settled
Playing it too safe, not giving a hundred
And now the people that I did reach are all wondering “what happened?”
Not aggressive too passive I’ll restore order
No looking back I’m looking forward

Hook (Mellow Drum Addict)
Looking back, looking back, looking back now I can see
It wasn’t how it’s supposed to be
It wasn’t how it’s supposed to be
Looking back, looking back, looking back now I can see
It wasn’t how it’s supposed to be
Just look closely