Childhood - Sammus

This is a song about being a kid…

Cuz being a grown-up sucks

My folks fresh off the plane

They both weathered the pain

With postcards and they prayed for some co-stars

Had a baby like Mozart

Guitar virtuoso

Like Tom Morello with Zack de la Rocha

While I did homework pronto

On the sofa reading Roald Dahl

Booted up the console

One controller for my road dog

Ride with Koji Kondo

Then with Toadstool in my go-kart

Broha throwin' combos

Goin' postal yelling, «Ultra!»

Hoping Papa don’t preach like he usually do

Make a big speech, he a choosy dude, yeah

And Mama cook eats like egusi soup

Right before sleep «I Love Lucy» too

Now we singing:

«Nick at Night the place for TV hits»

Now I’m trippin' like I’m Dick Van Dyke

Damn! I miss when we were kids

Steady trippin' like:

Let’s go away for a while

I’m a child

It’s a strange and distant land

Where we only speak the truth

Everyone understands how we play

Back in the day

Instead of bitches and hoes

We talked glitches and holes in plot twists

And the pros of the Mach 6

With steady giggles and lulz

We went through each of the shows on Fox Kids

Wanna slow the clock’s ticks

Passin' time

Talkin' Skywalker, Cyclops, or Saibamen

Arkham Asylum

Imbibed Where the Sidewalk Ends

Guile to MacGyver to Pride Rock to Frylock

And fights with Noob Saibot or Psylocke and Psyduck

And I spent a summer

Overdosin' on Pokémon

Chillin' with my brother

On the sofa while home alone

Any time it thundered

Then we’d wanna run close to mom

I remember postin' with my bros in Hiroshima

Yeah whether Christmas or it’s Halloween

Fuck a distance they will always be a part of me

If life an RPG I want 'em in my party

We an army thick as Heifer, Filbert, and the modern wallaby

We gotta be

Let’s go away for a while

I’m a child

It’s a strange and distant land

Where we only speak the truth

Everyone understands how we play

Back in the day