Hey, bring that brass in... BRING IT IN!

Music out the speakers, Velcro on the sneakers

Having fun isn’t hard, got a library card

Clean off the blacktop - too many needles

Play street hockey with my peoples

Ice tea or lemonade - we chillin in the shade

Goin home smell ya later - can’t catch speed racer

Pop in contra - or maybe Zelda

Ring pops, sugar high, ain’t shit you can tell us

Mom, I swear I’m sick, I gotta skip school

Oh the bus went by? Heh, let’s go to the pool

Do a cannonball - off the diving board

Grab the noodles, now they pirate swords

Next day in school, straight act like a fool

Get thrown outta class, teacher can eat my ass

Doing target practice, with paper wasps

Get home, play drums, and work on my chops

It’s just the simple things you do growing up, these are your roots

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Go down to the train tracks - nah we ain’t coming back

Putting nickels on the rails - better make them shits flat

As the train went by, heard the halo soundtrack

SLO-Mo shrapnel, get the fuck back

Got church in the evening - take the sandy trail

Better start leaving, don’t wanna go to hell

Get there 10 minutes late, hear the Bible tale

Leave 10 minutes early, call that a Christian Bail

Skate down to the creek, make a fort in the bamboo trees

Pass around rolling rocks, get chased by the cops

Bend around the corner - quick, throw the weed out

Hit the tree line, you on our turf now

Shortcut to the crib, few rounds Madlibs

Got blood on my knee - oh well, drink chamomile tea

Boot up the camera - makin home movies

It’s your turn for stuntman duty

It’s just the simple things you do growing up, these are your roots

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In the yard in the dark, lil bro creeps up like a shark

Midnight on the dot, he had a revenge plot

Ima find him alone - punch dude in the face

That’ll put him in his fucking place

Popped me in the skull, left standing in awe

I was feeling the most, lil bro went ghost

Never really knew - why the fuck he did that

But I sure as hell knew that I deserved it