Take A Look Back - The Alchemist

Take a look back, Yeah!

Take a look, just slip back

Too late, you never know

Yeah!

Never go back but I think back

Hear a song on the radio from the past and get a flashback

Cinematic when it plays back

Write a story of my life and be the soundtrack

11 — 46 Central on a school night I used to sneak out the window

I was little, my brother Neil was in the middle

On the bottom bunk, roof where I wrote my riddles

Get a chill every time I get a visual

Used to think I was invincible

Everyday shoplifting competition at the mall was the ritual

Never won, I never made a good criminal

Got a problem at the school with the principal

And back then all the music was original

I was young and dumb, the future was invisible

Take a look back, take a look back

Never go back, when I reminisce about those passed

Thinking it’s a trip how fast we live

Flashing back to the sandbox with my clothes dirty

And my jeans was ripped

Swinging on the monkey bars trying to keep my grip

Jump on the trampoline till my knees give in

Always physical, I was a little crazy kid

Then I got into the music and I found my niche

Found a gift, could’ve found a ditch

Even when bullets came in my direction, somehow they missed

Tried to grab me and stab me, somehow they slipped

Like a force-field, stayed the course at the Lord’s will

Even when it’s over, I’mma go to war still

Even when I’m gone I’ll be making noise still

I could never live forever but the voice will

Always knew I’d be somebody that the world feeled

Take a look back at your life now

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I admit sometimes I speed for no reason

Sometimes I roll up the weed for no reason

Take a breath of fresh air for no reason

Cause you never know when you’re gonna be leaving

So I get it with the old clique

And reminisce while we’re thumbing through a box full of old flicks

Laughing at the funny clothes and the outfits

Take a look back, take a look back

Yeah they say time keep on slipping

But I’m sunk in the coupe, I just keep on dipping

Switching up the gears, I keep on shifting

Daydreams, my mind it keeps on drifting

Like J Dilla I’mma keep living

Never feel like a beat’s finished, I’m a perfectionist

Never really happy with it so I’ll mess with it

It’s a God-given talent, I was blessed with it

Thinking back from the past occurrences

It’s endless, I can only scratch the surface

But it’s a new day so I let the sun shine

Through the window when I crack the curtains

Only death is certain, only tax is certain

Take a break for a minute then it’s back to work

Take a look back at your life now

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Take a look back at your life now

Take a look back at your life now

Take a look back at your life now