[Verse 1]

I remember when I was twelve years old

No worries in my brain with a pound in my pocket

And a chest full of smoke, I remember all the chordies we drove

We used to play football all day

And use jumpers for goalposts

And throw egg yolks at windows to wind up the old folks

Started learning about the birds and the bees

There was birds from my class on their knees behind trees

My favourite MC was Sharky Major

Way before I hit 1-double-0-3

Temptation, Kiss 100, or Flava

Get home from school and tape N.A.S.T.Y. on Déjà

92.3

But let's skip forward in time, seven years down the line

And it seems the spotlights on me

Sometimes I wish that I was still twelve or thirteen

[Chorus]

Life can pass you by

Just watch how fast it flies

1989's when I started mine

Now I'm like 'what happened to the time?'

Life can pass you buy

Just watch how fast it flies

1989's when I started mine

Now I'm like 'what happened to the time?'

[Verse 2]

Fifteen, bag of weed, bag of beers in the park

Duckin' out from feds in the dark

Then reappearing with grass stains up and down my legs and arms

And with a fresh beer clenched in my palm

Sixteen, my bars are different class

I've been rolling with Dogz and Glamma

And Shotz for a year but we're steppin' up fast

I guess I got around in the bits

I was selling bags of bud and Tales from the Crypt

I met Ghetts when I was fourteen, lost touch

By sixteen, I'd linked up with Ghetts again

Rolling with The Movement and started doing sets for them

Mercston, Scorcher, Unique and Wretch and them

2006

I was 17 when I finished my first solo CD

But this time there's an album in the midst

[Chorus]

Life can pass you by

Just watch how fast it flies

1989's when I started mine

Now I'm like 'what happened to the time?'

Life can pass you buy

Just watch how fast it flies

1989's when I started mine

Now I'm like 'what happened to the time?'

[Verse 3]

By the time I hit seventeen

I was the coldest younger on the scene

With bars you never heard and flows you never seen

Before I come around it was 'cock it and shoot'

MC's being cocky and rude

Then I moved to some deep concepts in my tunes

Monitor my brain waves

Tell me if I'm crazed but I think the games changed

And MCs are opening doors in the same ways

As I did when I was a kid

On Rinse radio waves

And now I'm paving the way for a fatal display

Might blaze in a haze till I'm dazed

And wave a grenade in your face

Seventeen with bars that I regulate and generate pace

I'm only scared of who my enemies face

[Chorus]

Life can pass you by

Just watch how fast it flies

1989's when I started mine

Now I'm like 'what happened to the time?'

Life can pass you buy

Just watch how fast it flies

1989's when I started mine

Now I'm like 'what happened to the time?'

[Verse 4]

Nineteen, showing strength in the booth

Now it's time to prove what Devlin can do

From the very first time I ever crept on a tune

I've immensely improved, the ascendance is due

Original spitter, no remnants of you

Swear I can see success in my view

Crazy what letters in a sentence can do

'Cause my lyrics are the only thing sending me through

Kanye called me a gangster rapper

I'm not a gangster rapper, Devs, I just spit it real

You're an MC like c'est difficile

I look skinny cause I keep on missing meals

I'll get cold, let you know how frigid feels

No children, sticking them rigid still

I guess my life's fucked up

But I'm only nineteen and I've got a lot of living still

[Chorus]

Life can pass you by

Just watch how fast it flies

1989's when I started mine

Now I'm like 'what happened to the time?'

Life can pass you buy

Just watch how fast it flies

1989's when I started mine

Now I'm like 'what happened to the time?'