AdultTing

This AdultTing
You mean the one you didn't sign up for - yeh
It's a long ting – I know
Tired of chasing shadows
Younger me wants to be me now
Meanwhile
I wanna be stress free like a child
Without the Senile detail
When all seems well, well...
This AdultTing
You mean the one you didn't sign up for - yeh
It's a long ting – I know
Tired of chasing shadows
Younger me wants to be me now
Meanwhile
I wanna be stress free like a child
Without the Senile detail
When all seems well...

I remember young days when days simple
GCSE times
I be looking for the rewind - flashback
Cash was a lot less back then
So was stress
My distress - was whether or not, the rock
Could survive a stunner at mania seventeen
It was Pythagoras or three sixteens
It was Plaistow Greengate, gang be the team
With Evisu jeans – boot cuts with a new cut
Cut above the rest in East Ham – a level one trim
Kids on the wall – with a pattern on a back
If I came back with that, then I'm patterning a slap
Nigerian dad – he aint having none of that
First born, two youngers – so I set the example
But you see me - I just wanted to rave
I just wanted to play – take me back to those days
Neighbours, Home and Away
Canning Town, real EastEnder
Skinny and slender – back before I did weights
Back then when I thought that God was good
These days now I know that God is great
Bill after bill after bill after bill to pay
That's all I hear nowadays
Kill after kill after kill in Uma ways
Leaving the block with pain
I can't afford it
Vision distorted - Look at this poor kid
Looking back like we all did –
Wondering what we ordered
Not what we ordered
I didn't sign up for this – no
Back when I was a kid – go
I wanted to be the age that I am now
Didn't think it'd be like – this – oh
Well – we're here now... Make the most of it
I'm here now – so I made the most of it
Broken time and time
Steady you can wait and see
Second you will never get back
When I know that time won't wait for me

This AdultTing
You mean the one you didn't sign up for - yeh
It's a long ting – I know
Tired of chasing shadows
Younger me wants to be me now
Meanwhile
I wanna be stress free like a child
Without the Senile detail
When all seems well, well...
This AdultTing
You mean the one you didn't sign up for - yeh
It's a long ting – I know
Tired of chasing shadows
Younger me wants to be me now
Meanwhile
I wanna be stress free like a child
Without the Senile detail
When all seems well...

Things I didn't know then but I do know now
I can see it come back round
Twenty friends can't stay together for twenty years
Daddy said to me when I was in year six
Smile upside down
I wanted to go to Bons, but he said no
Still went – but the man dem –
Where are they now? – where are they now?
You love women now way too much
Young me control that lust
Kevin's heart now Kevin little
Everyday so tempted to touch
Insecure to seek love
Them man struggle with the trust
That night when you slipped up and the news came
Deep down you wanted to run - you were so scared...

Now I'm okay
Learnt from every one of my mistakes
No regrets
No looking back to the past
That God came and forgave
Did it with Grace
Back to the future
What can I say?
Other than this God – you are so great
Brush my past with the bloodiest paint
Brush my past with the bloodiest...
Now I'm okay
Learnt from every one of my mistakes
No regrets
No looking back to the past
That God came and forgave
Did it with Grace
Back to the future
What can I say?
Other than this God – you are so great
Brush my past with the bloodiest paint
Brush my past with the bloodiest...