1989 - Devlin.mp3

[00:07.44]I remember when
[00:07.83]I was twelve years old
[00:08.67]No worries in my brain with a pound in my pocket
[00:10.32]And a chest full of smoke
[00:11.19]I remember all the chordies we drove
[00:12.54]We used to play football all day
[00:13.59]And use jumpers for goalposts
[00:15.15]And throw egg yolks at windows
[00:16.20]To wind up the old folks
[00:17.28]Started learning about the birds and the bees
[00:18.57]So there's birds from my class
[00:19.47]On their knees behind trees
[00:20.55]My favorite
[00:20.97]MC was Sharkey
[00:21.66]MajorWay before
[00:22.59]I hit one double
[00:23.22]O threeTemptation,
[00:24.30]Kiss 100 or
[00:25.05]FlavaGet off from school and take
[00:27.24]Ninety two point three
[00:28.35]But let's skip forward in time
[00:29.43]Seven years down the line
[00:30.27]And it seems the spotlights on me
[00:31.71]Sometimes
[00:32.16]I still wish
[00:32.55]That I was still twelve or thirteen
[00:34.20]Life can pass you buy
[00:35.34]Just watch how fast it flies1989's when
[00:37.95]I started mine
[00:38.64]Now I'm like what happened to the time?
[00:40.86]Life can pass you buy
[00:42.00]Just watch how fast it flies1989's when
[00:44.61]I started mine
[00:45.30]Now I'm like what happened to the time?15, bag of ****, bag of beers in the park
[00:49.05]Duckin' out from
[00:49.62]Feds in the dark
[00:50.49]Then we appear with grass
[00:51.51]Stains up and down my legs and arms
[00:52.68]And with a fresh beer clenched in my palm
[00:54.42]My bars are different class
[00:55.65]I've been rolling with
[00:56.31]Dogz and Glamour
[00:57.00]And Shotz for a year
[00:57.78]I've been steppin' up fast
[00:59.07]I guess I got around in the bits
[01:00.27]I was selling bags of bud
[01:01.23]And Tales from the
[01:01.71]CryptI met
[01:02.49]Ghetts when
[01:02.82]I was 14, lost touch
[01:04.02]By 16, I'd linked up with
[01:05.04]Ghetts again
[01:05.46]Rolling with
[01:05.79]The Movement
[01:06.18]And started doing sets for them
[01:07.17]Mercston,
[01:07.56]Scorcher,
[01:07.98]Unique and
[01:08.40]Wretch and 'em2006,
[01:10.14]I was 17 when
[01:10.83]I finished my first solo
[01:11.91]CDBut this time there's an album in the midst
[01:14.25]Life can pass you buy
[01:15.33]Just watch how fast it flies1989's when
[01:17.94]I started mine
[01:18.63]Now I'm like what happened to the time?
[01:20.88]Life can pass you buy
[01:22.02]Just watch how fast it flies1989's when
[01:24.60]I started mine
[01:25.29]Now I'm like what happened to the time?
[01:26.61]By the time
[01:28.11]I hit 17I was the coldest younger on the scene
[01:30.27]With bars you never heard and flow you never seen
[01:32.07]Before I come around it was cock it and shoot
[01:34.20]MC's being cocky and rude
[01:35.31]Then I moved to some deep concepts in my tunes
[01:37.17]Monitor my brain waves
[01:38.34]Tell me if
[01:38.73]I'm crazed but
[01:39.30]I think the games changed
[01:40.47]And MC's are opening doors in the same ways
[01:42.60]As I did when
[01:43.11]I was a kid,
[01:43.56]I reach radio waves
[01:44.82]And now I'm paving the way for a fatal display
[01:46.56]Might blaze in a haze till
[01:47.49]I'm dazedThen wave a grenade in your face17 with bars that
[01:50.40]I regulate and generate pace
[01:52.05]I'm only scared of who my enemies face
[01:54.21]Life can pass you buy
[01:55.35]Just watch how fast it flies1989's when
[01:57.96]I started mine
[01:58.62]Now I'm like what happened to the time?
[02:00.90]Life can pass you buy
[02:02.01]Just watch how fast it flies1989's when
[02:04.62]I started mine
[02:05.28]Now I'm like what happened to the time?19
[02:07.74]Showing strength in the booth
[02:08.73]Now it's time to prove what
[02:09.63]Devlin can do
[02:10.26]From the very first time
[02:11.10]I ever crept on a tune
[02:11.94]I've immensely improved, the attendance is due
[02:13.83]Original spitter, not remnants of you
[02:15.39]Swear I can see success in my view
[02:17.07]Crazy what letters in a sentence can do'
[02:18.51]Cause my lyrics are the
[02:19.23]Only thing sending me through
[02:20.40]Kanye called me a gangster rapper
[02:21.96]I'm not a gangster rapper
[02:22.92]Devs, I just spit it real
[02:24.06]You're an
[02:24.30]MC like C difficile
[02:25.62]I look skinny 'cause
[02:26.25]I keep on missing meals
[02:27.27]I'll get cold like you know how frigid feels
[02:29.04]No children, sticking them rigid still
[02:30.93]I guess my life's ****ed up
[02:31.92]But I'm only nineteen
[02:32.76]And I've got a lot of living still
[02:34.20]Life can pass you buy
[02:35.34]Just watch how fast it flies1989's when
[02:37.95]I started mine
[02:38.64]Now I'm like what happened to the time?
[02:40.86]Life can pass you buy
[02:42.00]Just watch how fast it flies1989's when
[02:44.61]I started mine
[02:45.30]Now I'm like what happened to the time?