[Verse 1: Kas Solo]

I remember when the days used to seem longer

Seemed like nothing would change, we would always grow stronger

Is how I used to feel, but now that I got chance to look back

I [?] to realise I mistook that

Endless days of fun, enjoying numerous relations

All my boys were dumb, but we grew out of those phases

Plus we were young, too proud to admit mistakes, and

All the shit that comes with being an angry teenager

I wish that I could go back to those days, kid

I wish that I could go back to then (back to when?)

When it all first started and my life felt whole

Where the future was my target and my sight wasn't cold

Waking up to the alarm, putting on my shell toes

And catchin' a ride from mum, because the bus didn't go

Around my way and my school was a long way to go

Pick up all my friends along the way, then we would walk home

And stop at the [?] store on the corner of Porter

Spend a quarter, get a sugar buzz, go to Connie's and order

Chilli cheese fries and a water, 'cause I was too broke for a soda

But that was back then, nowadays I feel grown up

Now everything has changed, nothing stayed the same

Everything seems smaller and there's always shorter days

Our future's look washed up [?]

A lot of houses boarded up and the store's turned to a place to stay

All my friends lost love and went away

But I can't blame them, I got my own family to raise

School turned to work, work turned to pain

I was a fool that never learned [?] changed

[Chorus: Jodes]

It used to be easy, now it's not

I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop

Or slow down ("Slow down")

Or slow down

It used to be easy, now it's not

I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop

"Seasons change, mad things rearrange

But it all stays the same" No, it doesn't

[Verse 2: [?]]

Now I'm a take it back like letters that be return to sender

When the facts and days were better innocent with no agenda

I don't endeavour to remember December in seventy-seven

But I clearly remember October end of eighty-seven

Suite cases full with my family while we stand in rundle mall

Strangers staring and scaring me while parents search for all

Possible places for our first night to sleep in a different city

Now as an adult I look back at mum and dad and feeling pity

Kind of shitty from the inside only now I appreciate

Back then I couldn't calculate or estimate the path of fate

Ten years of age tentative to engage and communicate

You must assimilate with this culture maturing my mental state

No speaking English family friends culture left back in Brazil

Opposites of what I learned but combining them is a skill

Year six, late eighty-nine, heard coppers get dissed in rhyme

Motivated me so much in the clutch of researched to find

Information as a student so prudent with observation

No Internet for education but rappers in compilations

Back then hip-hop did compete with dance music in central station

And the source mag arrived six months from its publication

Destination of the movement was unknown but not scared

Only cared when someone dared to ask the size of your Nike air's

This graffiti folklore making heroes of city kids

Like the front page after the final in Melbourne for jail bids

This fusion of type of bashing society now mush accept

The culture that they didn't let it now comes back with intellect

I've got a family like many with mortgages job and bills

I'm going bald and getting old but improving my mental skills

[Chorus: Jodes]

It used to be easy, now it's not

I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop

Or slow down ("Slow down")

Or slow down

It used to be easy, now it's not

I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop

"Seasons change, mad things rearrange

But it all stays the same" No, it doesn't

[Verse 3: [?]]

I remember when, all I had to remember then

Two most important things, family and friends

Those who stuck by my side and will to the end

The ones we lost along the way, I'll always remember them

Sometimes I spend, reminiscing how it used to be

Leaves me wishing I could start reliving

Back to the younger me

Worry free thinking life's just a ride

No matter what it be, I'd always give it a try

I can't lie, while growing up I always took the hard way

Still made it to a man but it feels like only yesterday

Me and hewitt, name it we'd do it just to get a laugh

Only so much a boy can learn sitting out the class

Time passed, no sign of my behaviour getting better

Seems all I got out of school was just another letter

To a mother, still wonder how she made it on her own

Giving me a home as well as Adidas Romes

Reebok pumps, converse to Nike's

Every step I took merely imprints behind me

At times treading lightly, still wasn't hard to find me

Now Morgans baby steps the imprints that guide me

Into the next day, let's say the best ways

The way that Ive chosen, well at least that's what I'm hoping

Not for me but for those following my footsteps

My daughter, my cousins point them right at where I took left

Like the hook says it used to be easy now it's not

Alot of sweating to be getting things this little kid once got

Wanted the lot but really all I need was the basics

Essentials for a life after all it's what you make it

[Chorus: Jodes]

It used to be easy, now it's not

I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop

Or slow down "Slow down"

Or slow down

It used to be easy, now it's not

I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop

"Seasons change, mad things rearrange

But it all stays the same" "Slow down"

It used to be easy, now it's not

I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop

Or slow down "Slow down"

Or slow down "Slow down"

It used to be easy, now it's not

I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop

"Slow down"

It used to be easy, now it's not

I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop

Or slow down (slow down)

Or slow down

"Nowadays shit is different"