[Verse 1]

If only I done things how I could have

If only things weren't how it should have

Without jail, being rich I would have

If only a certain lifestyle I stood off

If only I never fell in love with funds

If only I never fell in love with guns

If only this rap scene never let in punks

If only my people was all rich in slums

If only I weren't fifteen once

If only at sixteen, I didn't split his lungs

I don't trap no more, it's got me twitching up

If only I find a way without whipping drugs

If only I never caught case after case

If only I never slung base after base

Switching jails, now I'm meeting face after face

If only I buss my next case cause I've changed

If only real money gets stocked up

If only my right hand never got locked up

If only some homies never got shot up

If only some homies never got dropped blud

If only we all stayed tight from kids

If only we never had to hide from pigs

And 'If Only' is what this title is

If only I weren't sad when I was typing this

[Chorus]

If only I never went down that road

A wiser head up on my shoulders

Man if only, still I troop on like a soldier

Whichever way it goes now

Cause I've seen how this plays out before

Life's no game, rise up, change the score

It feels like the walls are closing in

The walls are closing in

[Verse 2]

If only niggas looked after each other

If only niggas didn't blast at each other

Cah we're so far gone, we'd probably blast at our brother

If only I didn't have to roll strapped for the summer

If only the feds didn't pin us on obbo

If only a different life, we did follow

And also if only all them teeth was hollow

If only we never made him see tomorrow

If only so much people weren't inside

If only so much people were alive

If only I didn't sell certain things to survive

If only I didn't sell crack in Year Nine

If only while my year was getting GCSE's

My crime weren't on the news, I shoulda went overseas

If only I never spent loads of P's

If only my teacher made me get those degrees

If only I never sold crack to my teacher

If only I never need a MAC or a nina

If only I never had to trap for the metre

If only police never found my stacks by the speaker

If only we knew who our real rivals is

But if we go against them, it's suicidal shit

And 'If Only' is what this title is

If only I weren't sad when I was typing this

[Chorus]

If only I never went down that road

A wiser head up on my shoulders

Man if only, still I troop on like a soldier

Whichever way it goes now

Cause I've seen how this plays out before

Life's no game, rise up, change the score

It feels like the walls are closing in

The walls are closing in