Mistakes Were Made Lyrics

I've been a man…I've been a myth

I've been on the top…been in the ditch

I've been a problem…been a defense

Been on the peak…been in the trench

Been on stage…been in the crowd

Lived in silence…lived out loud

Broke a promise…stayed devout

Been booed off and taken bows

Made some mistakes…covered a few

Wait for the future to come in to view

Procrastinate…that's like me too

Man it's a wonder I'm up in the booth

Taking away…the pain and excuses

I'm going crazy back in the noose

Tied to the mic…rap is the proof

That I'm a disaster with passion infused

Take away the…pain and let me make a way to

Break the chains of…anguish so my brain can taste the

Aimless things to…distract me from this great escape of

Strangulation…this is what mistakes are made of

I got a pad…I got a pen

Look at the gentleman at it again

I got a mic…I gotta write

Don't give a damn if it matters to them

I'm in a battle-the car gonna rattle-and I bet the cat'll-jump out if the bag I'll

Dismantle the prattle-I'm back in the saddle-and no other rapper can handle the whip

Damn right mistakes were made

Damn right I hate this game

Doubts come invade my brain

At night so I lay awake

Damn right mistakes were made

Damn right I've made a name

Doubts come invade my brain

At night I can taste the pain

Damn right mistakes were made

Damn right I hate this game

Doubts come invade my brain

At night so I lay awake

Damn right mistakes were made

Damn right I've made a name

Doubts come invade my brain

At night I can taste the pain

I bet a lot of it's obvious-I get involved

Give it all-with a cockiness

Even when everything-piles and falls

Down to the ground I annihilate all-not innocuous

Find where the pocket is-make a mistake or two

That makes it so much more raw and authentic

Find your binoculars-look what I've made it through

I want it all now-and I'm gonna get it

Failure only attacks if your stagnant

I climb and I fall and I climb back in silence

The biggest of hurdles exists where the mind is

And I know the world don't do nothin' in kindness

It pokes and it prods you and makes you insane

It's your job to make people favor the name

You can savor the fame you can take all the blame

But recovering's how-you unmake a mistake

Damn right mistakes were made

Damn right I hate this game

Doubts come invade my brain

At night so I lay awake

Damn right mistakes were made

Damn right I've made a name

Doubts come invade my brain

At night I can taste the pain

Damn right mistakes were made

Damn right I hate this game

Doubts come invade my brain

At night so I lay awake

Damn right mistakes were made

Damn right I've made a name

Doubts come invade my brain

At night I can taste the pain

Don't think a little tiny pill and bottles gonna fix me

I'm gonna fix me…I'm makin' history

Every damn mistake I've made has taught me to simply

Fight back with fists up cause life's gonna hit me

Damn right mistakes were made

Damn right I hate this game

Doubts come invade my brain

At night so I lay awake

Damn right mistakes were made

Damn right I've made a name

Doubts come invade my brain

At night I can taste the pain

Damn right mistakes were made

Damn right I hate this game

Doubts come invade my brain

At night so I lay awake

Damn right mistakes were made

Damn right I've made a name

Doubts come invade my brain

At night I can taste the pain