Looking Back

Now I remember watching ET, The Gremlins and Alf
Momma yelling sayin' get in the house
Oh I remember we used to play Mario Cart
And skip school and ditch class to play ball in the park
Now I remember silly rabbit ticks are for kids
Oops you sunk my battleship and pick up sticks
Oh I remember everything was cool back then
But with time brings change and it's true, I been
I been looking back on yesterday
Rememberin' when we used to say
That we were gonna run away someday
Looking back on yesterday
When everything was still okay
Tomorrow seems so far away
Now that I'm looking back on yesterday

Now I remember back when I was singing e-i-o
When all I needed was my mama and my GI Joe
And everything I ever did I did it with my bro
My life was easy back then when it went by slow
Yeah I remember when I was in to Pac-Man and Top-Gun
Hot Wheels and Legos putting Play-Doh in the pop gun
Back before I shot one way before I got one
Me and my brother were fighting over who got shotgun
I'm looking back on yesterday
Before my momma's hair turned grey
Rememberin' when she used to say
That everything would be okay
I'm looking back on yesterday
Before my people passed away
I thought that they were here to stay
But now I think about 'em everyday I keep on

Looking back on yesterday
Rememberin' when we used to say
That we were gonna run away someday
Looking back on yesterday
When everything was still okay
Tomorrow seems so far away
Now that I'm looking back on yesterday

Now that I'm looking back on yesterday everything was still okay
Mama in the kitchen cooking chicken while the children played
Kick ball and double dutch, hopscotch and hide and seek
Count to tenbehind a tree like ain't nobody finding me
It's times like these that make me wanna be a kid again
For biggie died and puff he made wishing he would hit a ten
Way before we ever had a mp3
Itt was vhs and tape cassettes we runnin' DMC
And I remember starter jackets and j's
Orlando Magic Shaq and Jordan coming back to the game
Back 'fore plasma was imagined had a flat in the screen
Title fight when Iron Mike would lay you flat in the ring
Way before the bars and whammers mixed with arm and hammer
I remember back when everything was bombs and slanders
I was just another kid in the streets
Playing waiting for the street lights
And getting no sleep cause I be thinkin' 'bout it each night

I been looking back on yesterday
Rememberin' when we used to say
That we were gonna run away someday
Looking back on yesterday
When everything was still okay
Tomorrow seems so far away
Now that I'm looking back on yesterday

I remember being young and playing duck duck goose
Me and my buddy it was just us dudes just us two
Oh I remember school days so much anticipation
Stayin' up the night before and hoping for a cancellation
I remember nightmares when momma come in the room
Sayin' baby ain't nobody coming for you cause they be coming for two
I remember holidays and spending time with the fam
Now it's like ain't nobody give a damn so I'ma keep on
Looking back on yesterday