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