Simple Back Then - Wrekonize

(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