Simple Back Then

(albüm: Pressure Point - 2020)

(Uh
Sometimes I like to go back
Hey
You can call me sentimental if you want but
That's just how I'm built)

On the corner summer hotter than a mixed plate
Me and Lu was making mix tapes at his place
Game boys with the big face
North Dade on the border
Madie Ives on a Kids case
I was only like 9 back then
I ain't really wanna get the shit grades but
Math was not my thing
I liked the music though that a boy
Show interest in the things you like fight through what you can't avoid
And so I did that choc milk with the Kit Kats
Pop dipped in a tilt cap after him and mom had a split crack but
We kept in touch we visit him for like a couple months
Up out the year we fly to NY just a couple runts
Flying all alone the chaperone would watch us from the front
I know it sounds complicated but it was all that we knew

We used to play used to play (used to play)
Back when I was just a little heathen (heathen)
Mama used to say used to say (used to say)
Don't you be out there where I can't see ya (see ya)
Uh it was simple back then
We was packed in to a little half den
Back before this life had even tried to crack in
Put the pressure on just to make our backs bend
It was simple back then yay
It was simple back then yay
Simple back then yay
It was simple back then yay
It was simple back then

In the 5th grade I was ducking under lift gates
Bumping Snoop in my disc man
Talking to the girl with thick braids
Fam moved us to Hollywood
New kids new schooling now
Didn't know not a single soul I was nervous they would never cool it down but
I skated in I made some friends hey momma look at me
Nobody's dissing on my thrift gear or my crooked teeth
I thought I fell in love a couple times well I was young and dumb
We broke into the old abandoned cinema for summer fun
I was still drug free learning to love me
Learning to stand up as man and grow to run see
Them days were some scene we stayed above sea
Learning to navigate the waves cuz it was all that we knew

We used to play used to play (used to play)
Back when I was just a little heathen (heathen)
Mama used to say used to say (used to say)
Don't you be out there where I can't see ya (see ya)
Uh it was simple back then
We was packed in to a little half den
Back before this life had even tried to crack in
Put the pressure on just to make our backs bend
It was simple back then yay
It was simple back then yay
Simple back then yay
It was simple back then yay
It was simple back then
(Mmmm, whoa)
It was simple back then
(Mmmm, whoa)
It was simple back then