Best Mistake Ever Made

Let me bring it back
Yo, let me bring it back

Uh, let me bring it back to when my papa was a drummer
Mama was his lover, fell in love in London, England
As they squatted in the gutter
Mother died of hair bonde, red and all the other colors
85 punk scene, yeah, my father was a stunner
Mommy was a queen, it was a problem in the rubber
Just a couple teens partyin' by the water in the summer
Yeah, later, Italy, my baby bottle in the cupboard
Nono holdin' me, tellin' me, "Baby, I am gonna love you"
(I am gonna love you)

Nono was a no, no, no, no
Valin and disgustin', beatin' on us so hard, he killed a child up in the stomach
After daddy left for good, abandonin' his kids
No more papa for anti-cott, you and daddy, they were twins
Family went to shit, just like the planet where we live
So, father made a band and went platinum with his disc, but
Mom couldn't handle all his anger when he flipped

So, one night, she grabbed me in my panda, and we split
In a gray opal course of the Germany
It was dad's simple dad search for me
I was wavin' through the back window
Too young to really comprehend the reason
Too complicated, too explainin' songs, so, I'ma leave it
And Papa was a genius, Mama was the sweetest
But Mama was herself, she never followed any leaders
Followed any orders, all she wanted was her freedom

So, now, when Berlin was the city of a choice
A single mother workin', livin' with a little boy
Yet a run-down apartment with a building in Detroit
There, I went to kindergaten with ambitions to destroy
All I ever knew was I was different from the start

In a dirty city, diggin' through syringes in the park
Seein' feengs, flipped needles, just to stick it in they arms
At the bottom of a step's dime
Mama said it's not a problem that I step by you
And if you're watchin', never copy, never end like 'em

Meanwhile, my poppie's tryna calm me, 'cause the man's caring
But my mind didn't want to stalk him and my dad near me
She left the continent, she left me with my grandparents
She went to Canada and searched for something there and all
And dad was still livin' with mama when the hair salon
"They were gone," that's all my father ever said
She came back to get me, then she got me on a jet

Told me new life, new country, in a province in the west
To be more specific, on a mountain by a lake
Went from city to the forest, from the towers and the trains
To living in a trailer power

At a ghetto place, cougars in a three outside
I was about to go insane, and I never seen snow
Now this powder to my waist, went to school, couldn't speak
Kids clownin' me with hate, just another outsider
I was bound to be enraged, hung with the older crowd
Yeah, findin' me a way to accept this pain in my chest
From no father in the home to raise me, correct
Blamin' mama, like I hate you to death

Married another man, I was ring bearer for the wedding
Wama pop, then portin' on was just a parent for forgettin'
Never was religious, started staring to the heavens
So, one night, it came to me, preparin' for a lesson

If I can't be with my father, then I'll follow in his tracks
I'll make music, write songs, pen my thoughts down on a pad
That filled all the hollow in my heart that I have had
True, I used to blame you, mama
But now, mama, I ain't mad, I'm a man
I see thing different, I'm in a better place
Now, I made you feel like you was just an enemy
Took me from my father, but gave me another anyway
Anyway, that was the best mistake you ever made (ever made)