In the Hallway - KnowMads

I remember when I was just a kid, skipping most of class

Smoking on a cig but hoping that I pass

Afterschool help, I don’t need it yet

Find out for myself that I’m a teacher’s pet

Come to class early I’ma be my best

Right at 7: 30 studied for the test

Started off rough when I did what I want

From the back of class, now I sit in the front

Pretending I was ‘sleep so she would notice me

Head on my desk scribble poetry

School was troubling she’d see what’s up with Cheef

Hard to get an A when she had double D’s

Saw me raise my hand I was wondering

The dance is next week and would you come with me

Still through all the laughter I thought that I had her

Said she can’t come with me but could meet up after

You told me to meet you after class

Held me back to make sure that I passed

Couldn’t help it always made you laugh

Said I read you like a paperback

Fantasising bout you all day

The bell would ring I guess that I’ll stay

Never mind what they would all say

When you’d take me out into that hallway

‘Member in September when we met each other

We had chemistry together girl

I thought I was clever tryna think of tricks

So that our teacher’d let us sit together

I wrote you a letter you gave me your number

There was something special bout you girl

There was nothing better than the day I looked up from my desk

You stepped into my world

I was into music, you was into soccer

I would meet you waiting by your locker

We would walk together we could talk forever

You the only one I ever thought of

I felt super awkward when I met your father

Asked where I was taking out his daughter

I ain’t have a car so we would take the bus

And at the park the stars looked over us

Girl you stole my heart I asked to hold your hand

You laughed then kissed my cheek, it made me blush

We would stay up late just telling stories

In the morning you would call and wake me up

Had me missing sleep but I was in too deep

I fell for you and opened up that door

My friends would always clown me

But I found a feeling with you that I never felt before

Needed more than friendship back then

I was on my way to class when

I stopped and kissed you in the hallway

And asked if you would be my girlfriend

Fantasising bout you all day

Couldn’t wait for you to call me

Young and crushing in the hallway

Cause you said I’ll love you always

Yeah but fuck what y’all say

Back in the day in the courtyard or the hallways

From drugs and swishers to hugs and kisses

Just tryna find my Valentine

After third period I would dip

Skip fourth, cop myself a fifth and be gone by sixth

Better drink that shit quick, no time to slow sip

We growing up wild and reckless in the 206

From the front of the class to the back of the bus

For those who passing that class or just passing that blunt

When I was tryna rendezvous with this blonde I knew

Parlaying in the cut

Remember freshman year like yo the kegs is here

When it’d run dry we’d hit SP for extra beer

Said the kids would never learn