SIMPLE THINGS - Intellectual

[Verse 1: ale]

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

[Chorus: orngz]

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

[Verse 2: CONTRADIXON]

The simpler things, simpler times

Back then I had a simpler mind

But was it really?

Kids supposed to be all acting silly

Running ‘round

I was running from these monsters tryna' kill me

Damn

Fought em all in silence

Shadowboxing demons

That would team up for the violence

Gold up in my chest, they’d try to steal it like a pirate

But I kept my guard up

I Engarde with the writing

My sword

Was the pen

Like im son of Poseidon

Speaking of him

Throwback to Percy Jackson films

And all the days when I used to ask for happy meals

Hackysacks poke packs Snorlax appealed

How ironic music woke my soul and my path revealed

Now imma bridge the gap

Right between all my dreams

And them being in my grasp

Made a promise Imma keep

To the me in my past

That when you get older

You’ll be everything and past it

That you imagined

The rapping fanatic

Who’ll go from just blasting the classics

Like Wayne, Em, and Drake

And the Ye from the days

Way way before the batshit

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 fucking 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 out that her doing that will save your fucking life

Now you finally free

Like the same way you felt younger climbing the trees

Imma make it to the top pop out of the leaves

And Think about the simple things as I’m lighting the weed