Take Me Back - Intellectual

Jerome, Jerome, put on that Bobby Womack

Nah girl I wanna go way back, ah yeah check this out

Yeah, I might be wrong but sometimes I feel like you can't get to the future, until you address your past. Ya dig? Just listen

Hook:

If I could go, if I could go

Back in the day to say the things I didn't know before...Mmmm

I could be so much better

Life would be so much better, Yeah

That would be nice right now

Thinking of opportunities that I missed out on, yeah

Take me back (me back)

Jones:

Man it gets hard not to reminisce

When I sit and think about the lips on you I haven't kissed-

From the, days of you dating the dude that had my initials

To that, one night that I saw you strut and we took that good picture-

It's just a, different scenario 'cause life has kept moving

And now I watch your Snapchat just so I know how you're doing-

I'm mean I'm, I'm proud of you, you've accomplished alot

But when your husband comes on, yeah that's right when I stop

Not all the time, cause honeslty I've been trying

To get you off of my mind

So I can keep moving forward

Finally I realized I'll probably end up dying

With you, still on my heart when i get to go meet the Lord-

At least you'll get to see heaven, twice

'Cause you're an angel in your own way

But yet and still you're so much badder than my worst day

The "what-if" is what really kills me in the first place-

You're the only reason I have mixed feelings about my birthday, damn

Happy Anniversary by the way..

Hook:

If I could go, if I could go

Back in the day to say the things I didn't know before...Mmmm

I could be so much better

Life would be so much better, Yeah

That would be nice right now

Thinking of opportunities that I missed out on, yeah

Take me back (me back)

VII's Verse:

June 6 2006.....My family was homeless

That’s 666......The devil was on it my greatest opponent

Mama was a beautician.....and she heavily gifted

Medusa/Poetic Justice braids.....these snakes be having me twisted

Father figure what I was missing

Figure the fathers

Only go farther

To figure what’s missing just from a distance

Well, at least he consistent

Got 4 brothers, never had a victor so sweet

Vegetarian personalities.....they don’t wanna meet

My la familia

Made up a heaven

Even through hell, oh well

Bottomless pits or

Milk and honey

You Couldn’t even tell, oh well

Hung with Vice Lords, 'Disciples and them Crips (and them Crips)

Forgive my vice lord

What I Decide to pull

Is Gone leave me crip

From my future because of my past

Project housing moving so fast

Euphoria never ever came first

But best believe we making it last

Even though we been through hell and back

And even thick and thin (Even thick and thin)

I still wish i was that kid again

Hook:

If I could go, if I could go

Back in the day to say the things I didn't know before...Mmmm

I could be so much better

Life would be so much better, Yeah

That would be nice right now

Thinking of opportunities that I missed out on, yeah

Take me back (me back)

Dolla Black Verse:

On granny front porch with kinfolk whip ride by hollin bingo

Young kings living day by day our own vibes and lingo

Staying up long nights on the 64-

Turned to early mornings in the driveway

Then early mornings in Sunday School

Trying hard just to stay awake

No heartbreak really had it simple-

Moms really gave us the best she could unh

Trip about anything

Boy I wish you would

Only time I seen people killed-

Was on sidelines or a hard drive

Posterized on a hard drive

Whole hood out here going live

And them summer vibes was the greatest trips-

I had just to see my Pops (see my Pops)

My Chi’ family loved to have me back

All love up on the block unh (Love up on the block)

My old hood off Old Canton

Where Leeland dubbed me Dolla unh (Leeland dubbed me Dolla)

Freestyling on the the bus battling bars-

Just tryna make a dollar unh (Tryna make a dollar)

Now I’m out here making dollars unh (Out here making dollars)

Plenty dollars just to pay the bills

Past due and pay me later bills

Now I know just how my people feel

Never noticed how the time flies-

Til you’re looking back over everything

Talking bout all the things I would’ve changed

Knowing I can’t change a thing, mane...

Hook:

If I could go, if I could go

Back in the day to say the things I didn't know before...Mmmm

I could be so much better

Life would be so much better, Yeah

That would be nice right now

Thinking of opportunities that I missed out on, yeah

Take me back (me back)