Guys Like Us

I reminise and take a trip back to '79

When your partner might have been like 5, dont sweat the date and the time

'cause in my mind every day was the weekend

And everybody knew each other every day they was speaking

And you could even go to sleep without locking the door

Wasn't no maybe's about your babies coming back from the store

But when we go, you better know its candy time

I used to walk up in the store they just hand me mines

Give me some jawbreakers, lemonheads, 2 bags of chips

And a soda, and there's something else i'm supposed to get

Give me some boston baked beans and a 10 cent cake

And some salem 100's for my uncle ray

Now everybody wants my candy but it ain't no sweat

Until my uncle hollers out "boy bring me my cigaretts"

And you can bet in 3 hours she'll be screaming the same

But things change and guys like us we had it made

Verse 2

It wasn't strange for somebody in your hood to spank you

And your momma won't say nothin but "what he do?" and "thank you"

And make you sorry for whatever you did

'cause you gonna get some more lashes when you get to the crib

But we was kids and thats all you knew

If my momma gave me a dollar you my partner then you got one too

And we knew if you tried to talk back

Roll your eyes, suck your teeth or get smart you got smacked

Pow that was that no discussions

When grown folks were talking you wasn't

No fussing no arguing, no going back and forth

Just pull down the back of your shorts and put your hands on the floor

And when you done get outside and play

And you'll be having flashbacks for the rest of the day

But hey that was how we was raised

And they still was the good old days, man we had it made

Verse 3

We used to play baseball, basketball, hide and seek

7 on 7 touch football in the street

And we'd be 14 deep up and down the block

And everytime a car came past you had to stop

That was when kids could play outside, wake up at 8'0clock stay all day outside

Eat a ham sandwich stay all day outside, playing until it's pitch black outside next day back outside

And if you had a fight with one of your friends

I guarantee in 3 hours you'd be buddies again

Even if you didn't win, nobody was mad

We didn't know anybody else we was all we had

It wasn't bad, it wasn't good

It wasn't beverly hills, it was the hood

And that's the place we spent most of our days

On 3rd and martin luther king them was the good old days we had it made