Young As I Was

Here I go I here I go I here I go again
Here I go I here I go again
Here I go I here I go I here I go again
Here I go I here I go again

I grew up before broadband and WiFi
We used to play outside, just a bicycle ride
Was an adventure, always into something
Out In the woods playing war games
With my plastic AK that made a sound like
Grrrr when i pulled the trigger
But now I'm bigger, and older and much wiser
I rarely get surprises, I've seen a lot
I was lost back then but innocent
Did some things that I can't forget
So, I repented and turned to the most high
And according to his laws I live my life
Everybody nowadays hypnotized
With their smart phones in their hand like 24 seven
I try to tell them
Now I got youngers of my own
Sitting at home with tablets and phones
Woke up and pulled the plug on the router
Said come on everybody let's get out of here

When I was a kid, I used to play in the forest
Whenever I went to town, I felt like I was a tourist
Always had problems with that urban flow
I had to head into the wild and leave the city streets alone
I was Mowgli of the north, barefooted and so forth
A young explorer like my name was Harry Swarth
Just me on my own, played games, being creative
Universe inside my head, I was a space age native
Diving, climbing trees, behind my shadows never hiding
Minding about my own, the sun was always rising
So, a review to my roots
I'ma Super Truth U with my mud loving boots
Footprints from the cradle all the way into the woods
And the lake side
I get goosebumps from that paradise
Let's bloom!
Life finds a way to make it happen
As I'm reminisce rapping about the days
I was a young lad and
Without any second thoughts or fears
No tears, no stress, no restlessness
But time knows no remorse
The child became a teen
I wild and tense such who always swam upstream

A child was born in the south one day
Snow in the north, finely found his way
Navigated with the tools that he found on his way
Amused and confused, like a dog astray

Yo - I seek along our line, like I'm seeking for our future
Finding it hard to believe we need to live in this torture
Can you establish, we're savage, and this is all that we get
That this is all that you got from all your blood and your sweat

Mm, see what you mean, yeah, like we're in a machine yeah
Destinated to create this evil scene, yea
Maybe man will be man, and I don't hold it against him
But I'll be damned if I pretend there aint a thing that would change him
And I refuse to pay deuce and loose the chance that we got

I love the youth man - give 'em what you got,
Show 'em what's hot
And not this tragical scenery
A magical peace
It's all that happiness means to me