Helley Hansen

(album: Arabella Street - 2018)

You lived with your mum, I live with my dad
It was that little pad with a pool, house full of jazz
We had Coltrane playing on the record player
I had a pair of Jordans holey as the ozone layer
Sending out prayers nightly to the Holy Ghost
I found the ones that let me down, yo I needed most
It's cool him not being round though
It became my greatest strength and his greatest downfall
Fremantle line party we first met
Kareem Campbell skate board up in the tape deck was Nas
And I marked every surface
No paycheck, still halved a bottle of bourbon with
Carlsani, mixed tapes with Adam
DJ Vadams the terrorist, it was our anthem
And we balanced the train tracks
Man, we will never get those days back
Yo we wore Helley Hansen, walked under streetlight dancing
Biggie was the anthem, my little peanut butter lets jam

My little peanut butter lets jam
Yo yo yo that it
Ima' meet you at the Hyde Park Hotel
Those days you were my whole world
Yo we wore Helley Hansen
My little peanut butter

Back then your energy was electric
Your eyes that shined bright as your gold necklace
Obsessed with the scent of your Cool Water perfume
Not even Tuxon's smell could ever better it
We walked through the cemetery to get to the party
Classy best dressed, some of them ghastly
From shooting the nasty stuff, we were the classy ones
Cut from the cloth of Ye' Saint Laurent
Master of, never worrying mumma
My sis did that enough on the come up
Too stealth to get done I was a ninja
Mumma was my center
Hunter and Daz were the integrators for me to enter
The next phase of my journey being an MC
With C grades I wouldn't even expect me
To be where I am, from Yokine to Greenwood
To Shenton Park and back, the fact was

Life is only good as your mindset is
Only ever good as your mindset
Got to be thankful for the gift of time we had
Can you imagine if we knew we were timeless
We wore Helley Hansen, walked under street dancing
My little peanut butter lets jam

My little peanut butter lets jam
Yo yo yo that's it
Ima' meet you at the Hyde Park Hotel
Those days you were my whole world
Yo we wore Helley Hansen
Yo we wore Helley Hansen
We walked under street dancing
Yo yo yo that's it
Ima' meet you at the Hyde Park Hotel
Those days you were my whole world
Yo we wore Helley Hansen

But I can not breathe
Please grant me serenity
Cause I can not breathe
I know I can be a better me, I know that
I can not breathe
Grant second chance
Cause l can not breathe
I can not breathe

Life is only good as your mindset is
Only ever good as your mindset
Got to be thankful for the gift of time we had
Hey

Breathe
Breathe

We had skateboards
Solid markers
Double Dragon