Thinking back to a simpler time / when the beats were Boom Bap with the simple rhymes / Just a kid with a simple mind / trying to stay away from crime / Only making time to write my verses / Mama mad at me cause of the curses / Yo, I was 15 / adolescence / my best years growing up / thinking that I was grown / wasn't slowing up / Tried to fit in with my peers / but wasn't quite chosen / as much as I was hoping / honeys weren't scoping / I was far from popular / far from a jock / and before I had a car / daydreaming at the back of the bus / some of those days I had to stand my ass up / my mouth almost got me messed up / smarting off, talking s**t / It's a surprise that I didn't get hit / Ha! In 1995 / Sunday nights on the Riverwalk used to be live / til' Columbus flipped the script / got the police stoppin' our s**t / spoiling our good time / everybody havin' a fit / Nobody causing trouble / whoops, I spoke too soon / watch the people run like hell / when that gun goes boom / damn / one idiot had to mess it up for everybody / what was great is now closed off for Columbus State / but before we had the drama / we used to have Mickey D's packed / or post up at the Skate-A-Rama / next 'cross the Dillingham / the year that OutKast had that one jam / me and you / your mama and your cousin too / yeah man, that one / Every now and then I think back / like, damn we had fun / looking at our throwbacks where our party's just begun / when I close my eyes I see everyone. ©2016 Joby D. Phillips