VERSE 1:

And I remember back in the day/
playin on my block/
Buster Brown haircuts and Chuck T's with no socks/
Ridin bikes throwin rocks/
playin GI Joe/ then back to the house/
capped off with some Tecmo Bowl/
or Castlevania/
then we'd turn the games off when it was time for Wrestlemania/
Macho Man and Hulkamania/
Life in California hot days Super Soakers/
Commando and Rambo had us all like little soldiers/
runnin around with toy guns/
shootin at all the kids/
tyin bandanas round our heads/
sayin we're Karate Kids/
wax on wax off/
slip n slides on hot days/
thigh high shorts with our shirts off and our roller blades/
man those days/
were the best times of our life/
do it all over again after we turn out the lights/
say goodnight/
wake up to the Smurfs and some Cheerios/
lace my shoes up again/
ready set here we go

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And I remember back when/
wish I could go back then/
we were tryin to be Bad/
like Michael Jackson/
skatin' round the whole block/
tryin to be Tony Hawk/
didn't have rides/
we were happy to just walk/
things were different then/
it was a kinder Lompoc/
Garbage Pail Kids makin noise in our bike spokes/
no one walkin around/
mean muggin tryin to fight folks/
my dad worked his ass off/
just so we weren't broke/
no joke/
havin fun checkin in every hour/
playin with He-Man yellin "We Have the Power!"/
touch football/
takin turns at quarterback/
action figures Ghostbusters Batman and Thundercats/
Tryin to act cool/
just like the bigger boys/
Lacoste Alligator Polo's and Corduroys/
I wish I could go back to a simpler time/
when mama always had a hot meal ready at dinnertime/

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And I remember tryin to buy beer with the homies/
it always had to be me cuz I looked the oldest/
it only took one OE I was slidin across the floor/
never once hung over from the night before/
buyin dime bags of mec/
even sometimes a nickel bag/
mackin to the hoodrats our caps over our doo-rags/
jeans so baggy they'd get caught up in my bike/
concealin little baggies/
some zags/ a sneak-a-toke pipe/
Adidas three-stripes/
long hair cornrows/
Timbalands and fatigues/
Nautica and steel toes/
Boy bands were makin millions we were freestylin for free/
bonfires and flat tires rollin buckets smokin weed/
workin for minimum wage/
part time day and night/
back when it wasn't okay to rap and be white/
It seems so long ago we can never go back/
but I miss those days that's why I still rock a throwback/

Bridge:

I remember back when back in the days/
cool nights hot days/
Cali-for-ni-a/
runnin round the whole town not a worry at all/
back when this big cruel world seemed so small/

Repeat Bridge

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