Childhood Memories

[Verse 1]

Smiles, laughter, good times

Family, friends, no ties

Wild, young

And I'm about to take you back deeper than I can remember

Let me start with the smiles, the laughter, the good times

With the family, the friends and the no ties

She was wild, young but that was all about to change

Because she had responsibility now

She had a life in her tummy, I'm talkin' 'bout my mummy

Daddy seen us as a meal ticket din' he

Well she replaced him like a real women should've done

And everything for her child like a real women could

And I was born on the twentieth of the twelfth 1990

She told me that shed never seen anything like me

I bet she didn't know I'd hold her back tight

Given birth to a soldier that will always fight for her

Now let me take you to my childhood

And I remember it being real good

I didn't know that the nineties were full of gangsters

And the ghetto was established and were talking

'Bout the real hood

I just remember sitting in that living room

And for as long as I could hold a pen I was drawing

For as long as I could see I dream I had visions of a city that was sparkling

[Chorus]

We were falling from the start

Bleeding from the heart

And I believed in you from day, oh

Now I'm reaching for the stars

Holding on to Mars

Because of you today, oh

We were falling from the start

Bleeding from the heart

And I believed in you from day, oh

Now I'm reaching for the stars

Holding on to Mars

Because of you today

[Verse 2]

Yeah drama, stress, no dough

Tears, pain, so broke; lost, child

And I'm about to take you back to the place that I'm just tryna forget

With the drama, the stress and the no dough

And the tears, the pain, so broke; lost, child

But that was all about to change cos I was growing up

Defended for myself look

I had a step daddy right

But yin and yang hasn't always been black and white

'Cause I could remember occasions where we would have a fight

And I would run away, sit down and look up at the sky

Questioning my worth, am I a mistake?

'Cause I'm black and my sisters white

Does it mean it's fate? That I end up on the street

Bottle at my feet questioning, where I'm gonna sleep

And how I'm gonna eat?

Hell no

Lemme tell you how it's gonna be

I'm the priest of my own religion

I can only preach what I know

And what I've seen I can tell the streets

Every story from my journal I'm just still tryna compete

With the lows, the peak when your tryna find your feet

And your future looks so bleak you turn to the streets and the roads

My mummy tried her best and Ignored the side effects

'Cause the struggle taught me all that I know

[Chorus]

We were falling from the start

Bleeding from the heart

And I believed in you from day, oh

Now I'm reaching for the stars

Holding on to Mars

Because of you today, oh

We were falling from the start

Bleeding from the heart

And I believed in you from day, oh

Now I'm reaching for the stars

Holding on to Mars

Because of you today

[Outro]

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