(ale: verse 1)
Take me back to 2018, before i was eighteen
Lupe in my busted headphones, it was a daydream
Lookin’ back it feels like a fiasco
Little moments of peace only breakin‘ my backbone
I miss the bus rides, slumpin’ into my room
I miss my homie drop circle out to the vroom
I miss the saturday‘s with early mornin’ cartoons
Take me back to november so this flower can bloom
Nostalgia my weakness
Falling for a sweetness
Found my xbox the other day and i was speechless
Fond memories and they all tethering
Oh they either bring joy or they drain energy
Like it‘s house settling, hear the creaks of my past
Feel it festering, oh it’s taking me back
Every way i was raised in the sounds that i played
That i laid in the tracks that i made to the days, uh
Back when i was twelve, i decided on music
Pulled up to the swim party bumpin‘ my new shit
And nobody bopped they heads
Ignorin’ my tracks, heard em sigh instead
Ignorin‘ my beats, locked me out of the shed
I heard em all gigglin’, my face turned red
Forgot about it later like i had amnesia
Cus somebody mama brought home a pizza
And now i got a beard and a side job
Cleanin‘ up my neighbors front lawn
Failin’ my permit test
And i think my girl‘s mama gettin’ sick of this pest
But fuck it we ball
I know i always pick up when nostalgia call
Spring to my fall but yearnin‘ ain’t all that it brings
Cus now i really appreciate the simpler things, for real

(orngz: chorus)
My vision blurred, I’m grazing the asphalt
Seeing shit through a rose-tinted lens
I can’t really hold memories for that long
Cuz the past is frail in my hands

My mind as full as a garden, I’ll pick a primrose
Yet I keep letting my body feed the ants
My foot caught in a vine, but I’ll stay to look back

(contradixon: verse 2)
The simpler things, simpler times
Back then i had a simpler mind, but was it really?
Kids suppose to be all actin’ silly
Runnin’ round, i was runnin’ from these monsters tryna kill me
Damn, fought em all in silence
Shadowboxin’ demons that would team up for the violence
Gold up in my chest, they try to steal it like a pirate
But i kept my guard up like on guard with the writing
My sauve was the pen like i’m son of Poseidon
Speakin of em... throw back to Percy Jackson films
And all the days when i used to ask for happy meals
Hackey sacks, poke packs, snorlax and pills
How ironic, music woke my soul and my path revealed
Uh, now ima bridge the gap
Right between all my dreams and them being in my grasp
Made a promise ima keep to the me in my past
That when you get older you’ll be everything and past it
That you imagine the rappin’ finatic
Who go from just blastin’ the classics like Wayne and the Drake and the Ye
From the days, way way before the bad shit
To having a tracklist platinum of status
It won’t be easy at all
You’re gonna work a bunch of jobs you don’t even fuckin’ want
To survive, you will second guess yourself if it’s worth to be alive
Then you’ll get backstabbed by someone you wanted as wife
To find that out that her doing that will save your fuckin’ life
Now you’re finally free
Like the same way you felt, younger climbin’ the trees
Ima make it to the top, pop out of the leaves
And think about the simple things as i’m lightin’ the weed
Uh