| I’m trying to get to memory lane
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| But wonder should I take the train of thought
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| Or hop on a mental plane
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| I don’t stay far, but this a place you can’t get to in your car
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| Travel, standing still, it’s bizarre; |
| but there you are
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| Like you never left, back in junior high with your report card
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| Trying to make a B out the letter F
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| Maybe that was me around the time that my brother was six
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| Before I got my first job and my mother was sick
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| It’s like she never needed chemo, her hair looks long, flowing
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| Sometimes it feels wrong going
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| But then every corner that you slung
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| Hung with all your dead homies slung
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| But now they got breath in their lungs
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| Looking forever young, before they were stressed
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| In here they only dress in nothin' less than Guess
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| Timberland, Tommy Hil, Rockports, and a Pelle
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| I reach down and grab a beeper while I’m searching for my celly
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| Damn did I hear Bump and Grind that was the jam at the reunion with the fam
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| In front of the cam, I’m trying to kick it with my first chick
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| I used mom’s Infinity
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| This will be the twelfth time I lose my virginity
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| Shit was the truth, I left and I stopped up at the Hip-Hop Shop Seen 'Tin,
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| Dilla, and Proof
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| Bugz, Bad Vibes, and Grym, T3 when he was slim
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| Watchin' La Peace battle Eminem
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| Soon they handed me the mic to spit a rhyme and a verse
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| I was shocked to see the clock show the time in reverse
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| But I ain’t wanna leave
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| Without hittin' my first blunt filled with chronic leaves
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| I choked up and couldn’t breathe
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| That’s the day I missed class, smellin' like twist grass
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| Mrs. Nash kicked me out because I’m not a kiss ass
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| So I visited places where spots got shot on a daily basis
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| Where kids pull triggers with babyfaces
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| Wait, I must be on the wrong side of the lane trail
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| Where they rob memory banks and end up in the brain cell
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| Where all my misery and pain dwell
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| I’m said to leave out my state of mind before the train bail
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| So now it’s time to go
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| I threw the deuces up to Dilla, dapped up 'Tin and then I hug my mama slow
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| Yo
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| It’s the place you wanna be, right
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| Next time I think I’ll take the mental plane
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| Instead of the train of thought
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| Hopefully touch down
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| In a state in my mind, but I’ll leave the mental baggage in the crib
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| Get back to that place
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| In Memory Lane |