Butterfly Effect

If I had a time machine that was built with a flux capacitor

I would go back to the rappers the media massacred

Back to the first time Pac was blasted in Manhattan

I would prove it wasn't Biggie so that beef would never happen

Hop to the present, get the president in my presence

Shake his hand, then send him back to the Great Depression

To hit a bar with FDR for a second

And together they could assess an effective way to address the recession

I stay stressin,' lookin' for work here

Havin' flashbacks of a frat bash from my first year

I wanna talk to little Jeremy the college kid

Take his resume to polish it, and get a scholarship

Have a couple of shots with him after he promises

That he acknowledges the clock on the wall and he knows what time it is

Cause the problem is the single lesson I neglected

Is that minutes turn to seconds faster than you would expect it

But if I could go back, I don't think I'd go back

I wouldn't wanna change things, I would do the same thing

I would just embrace things, I would just embrace things

I would embrace them the way they are

I said, but if I could go back, I don't think I'd go back

I wouldn't wanna change things, I would do the same thing

I would just embrace things, I would just embrace things

I would embrace them the way they are

If I had a time machine that was built with a flux capacitor

I would travel to Africa with a pack of ambassadors

Way before this crazy war erupted in Sudan

So my man Aleer would never have to flee his homeland

Then I'd stop in Germany, hop on Operation Valkyrie

Watchin' Hitler talk to a crowd atop of a balcony

But at the first announcement, I'm sneakin' around the bouncer

With a pouch of cyanide to pour inside his Alka Seltzer

Yo if I could time travel, I'd be goin' right back

To that battle in that parkin' lot where I got sliced at

Convince homeboy to put his knife back

So my left cheek wouldn't permanently have a white slash

And I know that I'm getting older

When the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting colder

I get reminded of that fateful evening in October

When my girl called me up on the phone and said it was over

If I did it all again, I woulda been a little bolder

There are things I shoulda said and I regret I never told her

So I drink away the pain but I'm afraid of being sober

Cause I know that I'mma wake up all alone and wanna hold her

If I had a time machine that was built with a flux capacitor

I would actually sell it back to its manufacturer

Matter fact, go to the factory where it's packaged

And I'd smash every last flux capacitor to fragments

Cause way before the butterfly effect happened to Ashton

Ray Bradbury practically labeled it black magic

The mathematical path to the aftermath

Rollin' snowballs yesterday and today you trapped in an avalanche

Why does everybody wanna change they stars?

Why don't they embrace them just the way they are?

And just play they cards? Laugh in the face of the demons

Haven't you ever been told that everything happens for a reason?

If his woman didn't leave him, and give him all of that pain

Yo would he have ever written the chorus to "Airplanes"?

He was stranded in the rain, at the verge of going frantic

When that Airplane crash-landed him in the Atlantic...

The butterfly effect…