The Old Days-Phora

[00:03.33]Verse 1: Phora [00:10.54]Its that type of joint that you burn put in your system and roll to [00:14.20]I ain't got to spark a blunt I'm keeping it old school [00:16.89]Just me and my music and my 03 Camry [00:19.48]It ain't much but if it gets me to my girl **** I'll be happy [00:22.53]Rolling through my city passing streets I used to walk through [00:25.40]Memories of school and all the girls I used to talk to [00:28.19]Flashbacks to the time when I drank my first Mickey's [00:30.67]Paint stains on my ****ies, Freight trains on a quickie [00:33.42]Graf writers know what the **** I'm talking about [00:35.96]Member the very first time you got socked in the mouth? I do [00:39.61]Every week I used to get my ass beat [00:41.85]All the times I ran from the cops could've been an athlete [00:44.64]I ain't tryna have cuffs on my wrists in the backseat [00:47.33]So I'm running through your backyard like it's a track meet [00:50.33]See, I ain't a criminal, just a youngster with problems [00:53.02]And I don't show up to school cause the teachers say not to bother [00:55.71]Prolly cause they lost hope in our generation. [00:58.48]All I needed was some guidance and some elevation. [01:01.12]But they ain't have it so I tried to act cool and hung with the wrong crowd [01:04.47]Never follow the rules so I bump this song loud [01:07.62]So selfish I never thought I'd make mom proud, now she taking pictures from the crowd she need to calm down [01:13.41]Tagging me on Facebook every four minutes [01:16.16]Never made a song without putting my soul in it [01:18.96]And this is only getting started [01:21.24]This is for my dearly departed, we out here living homie [01:23.32]Hook [01:23.73]I miss the way it was, reminiscing bout the old days [01:26.78]Miss the good times, back when everything was okay [01:29.87]Cause we had no worries, no cares [01:32.20]But nothing is the same, life just ain't fair [01:35.05]I miss the way it was, reminiscing bout the old days [01:37.89]Miss the good times, back when everything was okay [01:40.68]Cause we had no worries, no cares [01:43.32]But nothing is the same, life just ain't fair [01:58.02]Cause we had no worries, no cares [02:00.10]But nothing is the same, life just ain't fair [02:02.29]Verse 2 [02:03.05]So rest in peace to the peeps I'll never see again [02:06.05]I been seeing grandpa in moods that I've never seen him in [02:08.69]85 years old, still keeping it moving with a smile on his face saying "There's still room for improvement" [02:13.97]He ain't got a big house, and he's still pushing a bucket. [02:16.71]But he taught me how to love life even when I had nothing [02:19.66]I rock my dirty Chuck's like they were Jordan's made of gold. [02:22.35]I keep my head to the sky and I never look below [02:25.10]Sip my fourty with a passion, this is for all my people [02:27.99]I promised to keep you living till the day I'm in a casket [02:30.89]Life ain't what it was, and its so hard to get used to [02:33.78]Blues Clues and Coco Puffs, before there was a YouTube [02:36.42]Used to, love to walk to school in the rain [02:39.01]Railroads, watching trains pass envision my name on every one of them [02:42.17]All my 90's kids know where I'm coming from [02:45.17]Rugrats on Saturday mornings right when the sun is up [02:47.71]Raised in Southern Cali, got that California mind state [02:50.91]So don't blame me if I cut you off in traffic [02:53.55]I used to tell girls I'm a rapper over MySpace [02:57.00]Even before I started rapping [02:59.75]Yeah homie, I miss them old days [03:01.88]Miss cruising through Anaheim with pops bumping the o'jays [03:04.57]So all my real *****s put your glass up [03:07.36]You never know if it's your last one [03:09.45]This is for the old days [03:10.71]I miss the way it was, reminiscing bout the old days [03:12.85]Miss the good times, back when everything was okay [03:15.74]Cause we had no worries, no cares [03:18.18]But nothing is the same, life just ain't fair..