| (Uh
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| Sometimes I like to go back
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| Hey
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| You can call me sentimental if you want but
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| That’s just how I’m built)
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| On the corner summer hotter than a mixed plate
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| Me and Lu was making mix tapes at his place
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| Game boys with the big face
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| North Dade on the border
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| Madie Ives on a Kids case
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| I was only like 9 back then
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| I ain’t really wanna get the shit grades but
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| Math was not my thing
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| I liked the music though that a boy
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| Show interest in the things you like fight through what you can’t avoid
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| And so I did that choc milk with the Kit Kats
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| Pop dipped in a tilt cap after him and mom had a split crack but
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| We kept in touch we visit him for like a couple months
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| Up out the year we fly to NY just a couple runts
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| Flying all alone the chaperone would watch us from the front
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| I know it sounds complicated but it was all that we knew
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| We used to play used to play (used to play)
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| Back when I was just a little heathen (heathen)
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| Mama used to say used to say (used to say)
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| Don’t you be out there where I can’t see ya (see ya)
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| Uh it was simple back then
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| We was packed in to a little half den
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| Back before this life had even tried to crack in
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| Put the pressure on just to make our backs bend
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| It was simple back then yay
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| It was simple back then yay
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| Simple back then yay
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| It was simple back then yay
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| It was simple back then
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| In the 5th grade I was ducking under lift gates
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| Bumping Snoop in my disc man
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| Talking to the girl with thick braids
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| Fam moved us to Hollywood
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| New kids new schooling now
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| Didn’t know not a single soul I was nervous they would never cool it down but
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| I skated in I made some friends hey momma look at me
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| Nobody’s dissing on my thrift gear or my crooked teeth
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| I thought I fell in love a couple times well I was young and dumb
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| We broke into the old abandoned cinema for summer fun
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| I was still drug free learning to love me
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| Learning to stand up as man and grow to run see
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| Them days were some scene we stayed above sea
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| Learning to navigate the waves cuz it was all that we knew
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| We used to play used to play (used to play)
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| Back when I was just a little heathen (heathen)
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| Mama used to say used to say (used to say)
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| Don’t you be out there where I can’t see ya (see ya)
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| Uh it was simple back then
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| We was packed in to a little half den
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| Back before this life had even tried to crack in
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| Put the pressure on just to make our backs bend
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| It was simple back then yay
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| It was simple back then yay
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| Simple back then yay
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| It was simple back then yay
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| It was simple back then
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| (Mmmm, whoa)
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| It was simple back then
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| (Mmmm, whoa)
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| It was simple back then |