[Intro: Joe Budden]
Y-y, uh
Y-y-y-y-y-yo-yo
Uh, yo-yo-yo

[Chorus: [?], Joe Budden, [?]]
Looking back on the things I've done
Everything happens for a reason (Yo)
Life is something you learn from (Yo, yo)
Everything happens for a reason (Yo, yo, yo)
I gotta make a confession, there's nothin' I'm regrettin'
Life's a valuable lesson to have to pull out a weapon
So don't make me, life is something you learn from
Everything happens for a reason (Look, look)

[Verse 1: Joe Budden]
It's Joey B, you know me, B
It's the n***a that would try and get the blow on GP
It's the n***a in the hood on the low G3 (Yeah)
It's the n***a some n***as want so does he please
Is it 'cause he make the flow look so easy (Or)
Or do they sit and count up all the dough that he see (Or)
Or do they wanna prove they OG and use me
To get the guns out, sending him to ODB
But what I ever did to a n***a? Aside give to a n***a
Try to show the big pic' to a n***a (Listen here now)
But I can't conclude how some n***as conclude
That the world is too small for them to live with a n***a
I don't regret dude tryin' me (Nah), dude keepin' that eye on me (Nah)
Then they gotta live with this thing called irony
And if I gotta live with the idea remindin' me
Then they can't live when the iron's on me, yeah! (Come on)
[Chorus: [?], Joe Budden, [?]]
Looking back on the things I've done
Everything happens for a reason
Life is something you learn from
Everything happens for a reason
I gotta make a confession, there's nothin' I'm regrettin'
Life's a valuable lesson to have to pull out a weapon
So don't make me, life is something you learn from (Woah)
Everything happens for a reason (Woah, woah, woah)

[Verse 2: Joe Budden]
[?] things just ain't the same for gangstas
And so I bear my soul, my pain, my anger
I beg to the Lord, keep me far from mo' danger
Look I know 'em but can't see 'em, he's a popular stranger
If I never got stabbed, wouldn't remember Veronica's wrath
Standing in the shower looking at the scab
I wouldn't know the hints of a stick-up kid
If I ain't have that short stint as a stick-up kid
If dude never tried to kill me, I might'a went numb
To all the bullshit that goes on where I'm from
And if I never went to jail, wouldn't needed a bail
Would'a probly went on to graduate from Yale
Would'a been a prosecutor standing in the court of law
But then that goes against everything he stands for
And if I never met Glo, how would I really know
All the shit that comes with, when you dealing with a ho
See it is what it is to be
Or it is what it is, at least that's what it is to me
And so if I could ever go back in history
I wouldn't change shit, I'd leave it all just to be
And if my first album would'a did five when it dropped
I'd be chillin', instead of tryna' rise to the top
If I could reverse the roles, would I reverse the roles?
Would it be worth it to try to reverse the tolls?
[Chorus: [?], Joe Budden, [?]]
Looking back on the things I've done
Everything happens for a reason
Life is something you learn from
Everything happens for a reason
I gotta make a confession, there's nothin' I'm regrettin'
Life's a valuable lesson to have to pull out a weapon
So don't make me, life is something you learn from (Woah)
Everything happens for a reason (Woah, woah, woah)

[Verse 3: Joe Budden]
I got a brother always keeps it real, his name's Guilt
Let's me know I can't stand however it is I feel
I got a cousin named Pride, n***a acts like a lawyer
Gotta a sister named Karma, I be tryna' avoid 'er
Gotta ex that's bitter, wants me to be her n***a
Hates my girl, Self-Pity, 'cause I'm always with her
But Bitter's beef is valid, she don't like shorty 'cause she use me
One time she seen 'er verbally abuse me
Got a friend that's passive, friends call him Passive
He just says whatever hoping that shit passes
My Uncle Hindsight wears real thick glasses
Reminds me of where I been and how shit gets drastic
Got a Aunt named Humility, she speaks low mumbles
Don't care that I'm a rapper she keeps me so humble
In my head I'll debate it, out loud I'll never say it
I'm pretty sure it's a good reason we all related
[Chorus (Extended): [?], Joe Budden, [?]]
Everything happens for a reason
I gotta make a confession there's nothin' I'm regretting
Life's a valuable lesson to have to pull out a weapon
So don't make me
Life is something you learn from
Everything happens for a reason
Looking back on the things I've done
Everything happens for a reason
Life is something you learn from
Everything happens for a reason
Life is something you learn from
Everything happens for a reason