1990's

By Drapht

Released on December 19, 2012

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[Refrain: Drapht]

They want me to take it back

To the 1990's

Back to the grunge and the grimy

Where shiny gold chains were inviting

And jean size fit both sides of the siamese

Twins in we're back in the nineties

Back to a time that's divided

By Batman, Mad Max and Macgyver


[Verse 1: Drapht]

But remind us, why would I wanna go

Back to a time that was violent?

A time the hood rats be snatching your hat if they like it

Virus of pirates, ain't related to Napster

Vanilla Ice's and "Ice Ice Baby" was the rap song?

2Pac and Biggie were busy with beefin'

Little Kim had her g-sting, Cheech and Chong weed thing

Street were covered in Cross Colours scheme

Coloured jeans brighter than the Beatles and their submarine (Yellow, yellow)

No, Coldplay were a little later

Axl Rose had hair, blood redder than the saber

Of Darth Vader's character, rave dance, parachute

Pants, was Furn gully way before Avatar

Batter up? 'Cause White Sox with the fitted caps

Janet Jackson's "Got 'til It's Gone" was a 'Dilla track

Back Street Boyz, you feeling that?

Men in Black track, really? You feeling the way that Willy rapped?

"Boom Boom Boom Shake the room"

Was that then, or when went and spent a tenner on the mushrooms?

Experimenting mentally, friends chasing the dragon

But like Diana with a flash... accidents would happen

Back when Jennifer Anniston

Was glamorous, even fuckin' having her own hairstyle

(Jennifer cut please!) See, if I can turn back time

I wouldn't, and I ain't talkin' 'bout the Cher song


[Refrain: Drapht]

See, I don't want to go back

To the 1990's

Back to the grunge and the grimy

Where shiny gold chains were inviting

And jean size fit both sides of the siamese

Twins in we're back in the nineties

Back to a time that's divided

By Batman, Mad Max and Macgyver

[Chorus: Drapht & Joyride]

They want me to take it back, back, back

But I don't want to go

I don't want to go back

I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go

They want me to take it back, back, back

But I don't want to go

No, I don't want to go back


[Interlude: N'fa]

Yo Draphto, I'm feelin you, man, though I gotta say... most of my favourite friends, bands, times, concerts where in the nineties, bro

Jeans cut with the 90's flare, remember that shit? First love, I mean it'd be cool for a week, but that was then and it always should be. So I'm like, umm


[Verse 2: N'fa]

Why would I wanna go back a second

Whenever I'm looking back I end up just second guessing

Questioning my weapons of choice, that be my voice

My mind, my soul, the time I spent in the void

And breaking out of it, look, don't doubt it kid

Rockin' a stage back in the days with 1200 Techniques, yeah, I'm proud of it

Lessons are blessings we learnt through

So let the past be the past even if it burns you

In the present there's no time to resent

Or wish that my parents never split back when I was a kid

Shit, we all need kinship

To be the king it's a heavy heavy crown to lose, plus

In the nineties I came up in Swan View

No matter which way you looked it was the wrong view

Kids sniffing glue sticks, swinging their two fists

Not giving two shits about who's hit

Sad but true, it's the way that it was

But all of that taught me about life's effect and the cause

So now in gripping my black balls on the attack for

Any given moment moving forward, never backwards

'Cause life is but a moment, and I'm living in the moment

And at the moment I'm on track like "Where the flow went?"

N'fa Jones and Drapht & Ta-ku beside me

Beyond the nineties but they want me to take it back

[Chorus: Drapht & Joyride]

Back, back, but I don't wanna go

I don't wanna go back

I don't want to go, I don't want to go

They want me to take it back, back, back

But I don't wanna go

No, I don't wanna go back

I don't want to, want to go back