What If

[Intro]
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

[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
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?

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
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?

[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus]
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?

[Outro]
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