Imagine - Lupe Fiasco, Simon Sayz, Crystal Torres

If I coulda, brought it back

I wouldn’t change a fucking thing

If I coulda, brought it back (yeah, yea yea yea yeah)

If I coulda, brought it back

I wouldn’t change a fucking thing

If I coulda, brought it back

(I'ma do the same thing, I’ma do the same thing)

Man, fuck college!

We finna do this rap shit

My mind’s like 5 mics, rhyme tight, fuck it

Limelight, shine bright, life short, love it

Let’s fill it with experiences

Balls in my hand like the grand prize game, aiming for pocket sixes

Throw back so that, you know when I say

Back in the day, you know exactly where I go at

Expanding my vocabulary

Rapping every word off the magazine covers down at Walgreens

That’s a .357 Magnum like Tackleberry

Academics took a backseat like Hightower

I flowered my power, yeah yeah yeah yeah

If I coulda, brought it back

I wouldn’t change a fucking thing

If I coulda, brought it back (yeah, yea yea yea yeah)

If I coulda, brought it back

I wouldn’t change a fucking thing

If I coulda, brought it back

(I'ma do the same thing, I’ma do the same thing)

Yo, we got a contract on the table from Atlantic Records

What do you think?

Well every rose has its thorn, and if I could be reborn

I mean to be the king, even Jesus puts 'em on

So, Atlantic ocean motion might make you sell funny

Betcha didn’t know the advance went straight to bail money

That’s right, to free Chilly Chill

And to do it all again, I would sign another deal

Still kinda paranoid from when they leaked my tape

Jeopardize being friendly just to keep mine safe

When keeping it real goes right, I couldn’t keep my faith

By third album I was done, you shoulda seen my face

Fuck Craig, fuck rap, fuck this, fuck that

Fuck your 360 deal, nigga, that shit’s wack

I was Truth.com with no backup plan

Got blackballed, couldn’t find a job, tryna backup dance

That shit was crazy, thanks to my back-up fans

I guess what lawyers can’t do, (we are Anonymous) the hackers can

If I coulda, brought it back

I wouldn’t change a fucking thing

If I coulda, brought it back (yeah, yea yea yea yeah)

If I coulda, brought it back

I wouldn’t change a fucking thing

If I coulda, brought it back

(I'ma do the same thing, I’ma do the same thing)

You wouldn’t change nothin'?

Like nothin'!?

Well, that’s not totally true

Young Lupe, I wish I could be totally you

But that’s the way it works, came to bring the pain, that’s the way it hurts

Picking in the scabs from the past just gon' make it worse

Can’t be 21 every time I sit and make a verse

When I did that song with NumbaNine, I was tryna break the curse

The good don’t make it out of the hood unless the hood make it out you first

All you needs just to believe that you can leave

Crown B and Es made me believe that I could lead

Righteous deeds, planting seeds for good society

So you see that I can’t be totally new

Cause there’s a future Lupe out there that wanna be both of me too

And nobody really knows what the future holds

All the future sins for our future souls

And what I am doing now I couldn’t do before

What would you do, man, if you could go?

If I coulda, brought it back

I wouldn’t change a fucking thing

If I coulda, brought it back (yeah, yea yea yea yeah)

If I coulda, brought it back

I wouldn’t change a fucking thing

If I coulda, brought it back

(I'ma do the same thing, I’ma do the same thing)