As I sit in my silver stack thinking about way back   Even before I started blazing the chronic sack   I was a go wild unfocused troublesome kid   Looking up to all the gangsters and the shit they did   I was at an impressionable age through a faze   An unmentionable stage deranged full of rage   Walking through life in a haze with dark clouds   Hanging over my head being wicked and loud   And sometimes those demons haunt me and taunt me   Follow me pursue me confuse me they want me   They come at me from all angles and dangles   Memories in front of me, but I wont run away   I put the gun away but sometimes my hand itches   But I don't want to get locked away cause of what, bitches?   I left those ways back in the old days   So go away I don't got no time to throw away      [Chorus]      Memories they haunt me (they haunt me) they follow me   To the day I die (we fight and we struggle out here so we can stay alive)   Memories they haunt me (they haunt me) they follow me   To the day I die (got to do what I got to do out her so I can survive)      I got my education on the streets   And I learned how to spit rhymes over rhythm   with dope beats   To say whatever I went through or going through   Tripping off people who acting like they been knowin you   Learn how some of these record companies be holdin you   Attaching an image in the end controllin you   But we set out to set ourselves apart   And let these people know just what they had from the start   It's like Ghostface said we studied our art form   We turned the mike on and spit a fucking dark storm   People slept on me and doubted my skill level   But I'm tenacious and I got a strong will level   You been introduced to some of the real rebels   Injected with venom from god to kill devils      [Chorus]      Memories they haunt me (they haunt me) they follow me   To the day I die (we fight and we struggle out here so we can stay alive)   Memories they haunt me (they haunt me) they follow me   To the day I die (got to do what I got to do out her so I can survive)   Memories they haunt me (they haunt me) they follow me   To the day I die (we fight and we struggle out here so we can stay alive)   Memories they haunt me (they haunt me) they follow me   To the day I die (got to do what I got to do out her so I can survive)      I remember my days as youth   Teenage gangsters with somethin to prove   See man amuse and we creep and we strew   Catch your ass slipping and dump on their crew   Just -- having fun but you crazy kids   Never thought about no prison beds   Got gangsters serve twenty-five and alive   Never see the kids or fuck they wife   But that's the game and shit don't change   Get respect for smoking brains   You get a name and you build your rep   You courting fools coming in your set   Before you know we're having fun   Slangin' doping and packing gun   Leaving mad traces and blasting their faces   Got a hundred years for all my fucking cases      [Chorus]      Memories they haunt me (they haunt me) they follow me   To the day I die (we fight and we struggle out here so we can stay alive)   Memories they haunt me (they haunt me) they follow me   To the day I die (got to do what I got to do out here so I can survive)   Memories they haunt me (they haunt me) they follow me   To the day I die (we fight and we struggle out here so we can stay alive)   Memories they haunt me (they haunt me) they follow me   To the day I die (got to do what I got to do out here so we can survive)