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Intro: |
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Jerome! jerome! put on that bobby womack! |
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Nah girl I wanna go way back, ahh yeah check this out |
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*needle is put to the groove on a dusty record* |
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Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore |
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But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again |
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Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore |
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But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again |
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Back in the days |
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Verse one: |
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When I just a little niggerole |
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I looked up to my bigger bro |
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Begged if I could kick it so |
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When he went out with girls I could go taggin along |
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Naggin if she had a sis maybe could mack a baby hoodrat |
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Y'all remember way back then, when it was 1985 |
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All the way live, I think I was about ten |
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One of those happy little niggaz singin the blues |
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That be always tryin to bag with the shag (and karate shoes) |
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Sayin \"yo momma black, his momma this, his momma that\" |
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Then he get mad and wanna scrap |
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We stay mad about, ten minutes then it's like back on the bike |
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To play hide and go get it with the younger hoes by the bungaloes |
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Then switch to playin ding dong ditch, when that gets |
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Old and too cold to hack it, threw on a bomber jacket |
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You could tell the ballers 'cause they bell wearin gazelles |
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If they really had money raised be sportin bk's |
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And, all the girls had they turkish link |
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If it broke then they made earrings to it, like they meant to do it |
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But, sometimes, I still sit and reminesce |
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Then, think about the years I was raised, back in the days |
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Chorus: |
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Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore |
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But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again |
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Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore |
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But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again |
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(and everybody say) (I remember way back when) |
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(and everybody say) (I remember way back when) |
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(and everybody say) (I remember way back when) |
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(what? ) (back in the day) (when? ) (back in the day) |
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Verse two: |
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I'm still back in the days, but now the year is '87 |
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'88 that's when my crew and I were in junior high |
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In 7th grade, I hated school (wish it'd blow up) |
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No doubt I couldn't wait to get out (and be a grownup) |
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But let me finish this reminescin and tellin |
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Bout when girls was bellin tight courderoys like for the boys |
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Basket weaves, nike court airs, and footsie socks |
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And eatin pickles, with tootsie pops |
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And it don't stop, I'm glad 'cause when j.j. fad hit |
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Supersonic it was kinda like a sport to wear biker shorts |
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Or, to wear jeans and it seemed like the masses |
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Of hoochies, had poison airbrushes on they asses |
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Dudes, had on nike suits, and the pumas with |
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The fat laces, 'cause it was either that or k-swiss |
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I miss those days, and so I pout like a grown jerk |
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Wishin all I had to do now, was finish homework |
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It's true, you don't realize really what you got til it's gone |
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And I'm not, gonna sing another sad song, but |
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Sometimes I do sit and reminesce then |
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Think about the years I was raised, back in the days |
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Chorus |
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(and everybody say) (I remember way back when) |
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(and everybody say) (I remember way back when) |
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(and everybody say) (I remember way back when) |
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(what? ) (back in the day) (when? ) (back in the day) |
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Verse three: |
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Well, it's the niggerole, I figure that now I'm all grown up |
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Because I'm eighteen years old, and guess you could say I'm holdin |
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Down a steady job and crew steady mobbin |
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You steady bobbin your head and I'm paid, so I got it made |
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But, didn't always have clout, used to live in south central l.a. |
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That's where I stayed and figured a way out |
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I gave it all I had so for what it's worth |
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I went, from rags to riches which is a drag but now I'm first |
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So (ahmad and the jones' is on our way up) |
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Yup, we said that we was gonna make it since a kid |
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And we finally did, but |
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Sometimes I still sit and reminesce, then |
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Think about the years I was raised, back in the days |
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Chorus |
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(and everybody say) (I remember way back when) |
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(and everybody say) (I remember way back when) |
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(and everybody say) (I remember way back when) |
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(what? ) (back in the day) (when? ) (back in the day) |
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(and everybody say) (I remember way back when) |
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(and everybody say) (I remember way back when) |
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(and everybody say) (I remember way back when) |
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(what? ) (back in the day) (when? ) (back in the day) |
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*fades* |
