Back In the Day (Remix)

Jerome, Jerome, put on that Bobby Womack

Nah, girl, I wanna go way back

Ah, yeah, check this out

Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore

But some days, I sit and wish I was a kid again

Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore

But some days, I sit and wish I was a kid again

Back in the days, when I was just a little ****

I looked up to my bigger bro, begged if I could kick it

So when he went out with girls, I could go tagging along

Nagging, if she had a sis, maybe could mack a baby hood rat

Y'all remember way back then, when it was 1985

All the way live, I think I was about ten

One of those happy little **** singing the blues

That be always tryna bag with the shag and karate shoes

Saying your mama Black, his mama this, his mama that

Then he get mad and wanna scrap

We stay mad about ten minutes then it's like, back on the bike

To play hide and go get it with the younger hoes by the bungalows

Then switch to playing "Ding, dong, ditch"

When that gets old and too cold to hack it, threw on a bomber jacket

You could tell the ballers 'cause they bail wearing Gazelles

If they really had money, Rays be sporting BK's

And all the girls had they Turkish link

If it broke, then they'd made earrings, too, like they meant to do it

But sometimes, I still sit and reminisce

Then think about the years I was raised, back in the day

Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore

But some days, I sit and wish I was a kid again

Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore

But some days, I sit and wish I was a kid again

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

What? Back in the days, when? Back in the days

I'm still back in the days, but now the year is '87-'88

That's when my crew and I were in junior high

In seventh grade, I hated school, wish it had blown up

No doubt I couldn't wait to get out and be a grown up

But let me finish this reminiscing and telling

'Bout when girls was bellin' tight corduroys like for the boys

Basket weaves, Nike Cortez and footsie socks

And eating pickles with Tootsie Pops, and it don't stop

I'm glad 'cause when JJ Fad did "Supersonic"

It was kinda like a sport to wear biking shorts

Or to wear jeans, and it seemed like the masses of hoochies

Had "Poison" airbrushed on they asses

Dudes had on Nike suits and the Pumas with the fat laces

'Cause it was either that or K-Swiss

I miss those days and so, I pout like a grown jerk

Wishing all I had to do now was finish homework

It's true, you don't realize really what you got till it's gone

And I'm not gonna sing another sad song

But sometimes, I do sit and reminisce

Then think about the years I was raised, back in the day

Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore

But some days, I sit and wish I was a kid again

Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore

But some days, I sit and wish I was a kid again

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

What? Back in the days, when? Back in the days

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

What? Back in the days, when? Back in the days

Well, it's the ****, I figured that now I'm all grown up

Because I'm eighteen years old and guess you could say I'm holding down

A steady job, and crew steady mobbin', you steady bobbin' your head

And I'm paid, so I got it made

But didn't always have clout, used to live in South Central LA

That's where I stayed and figured a way out

I gave it all I had, so for what it's worth

I went from rags to riches, which is a drag but now I'm first

So, mod in the Novas is on our way up

Yup, we said that we was gon' make it since a kid, and we finally did

But sometimes, I still sit and reminisce

Then think about the years I was raised, back in the day

Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore

But some days, I sit and wish I was a kid again

Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore

But some days, I sit and wish I was a kid again

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

What? Back in the days, when? Back in the days

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

What? Back in the days, when? Back in the days

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

And everybody say, "I remember way back when"

What? Back in the days, when? Back in the days