Memory Lane

[Intro]

[Verse 1: Elzhi]

I'm trying to get to memory lane

But wonder should I take the train of thought

Or hop on a mental plane

I don't stay far, but this a place you can't get to in your car

Travel, standing still, it's bizarre; but there you are

Like you never left, back in junior high with your report card

Trying to make a B out the letter F

Maybe that was me around the time that my brother was six

Before I got my first job and my mother was sick

It's like she never needed chemo, her hair looks long, flowing

Sometimes it feels wrong going

But then every corner that you slung

Hung with all your dead homies slung

But now they got breath in their lungs

Looking forever young, before they were stressed

In here they only dress in nothin' less than Guess

Timberland, Tommy Hil, Rockports, and a Pelle

I reach down and grab a beeper while I'm searching for my celly

Damn did I hear Bump and Grind that was the jam at the reunion with the fam

In front of the cam, I'm trying to kick it with my first chick

I used mom's Infinity

This will be the twelfth time I lose my virginity

Shit was the truth, I left and I stopped up at the Hip-Hop Shop Seen 'Tin, Dilla, and Proof

Bugz, Bad Vibes, and Grym, T3 when he was slim

Watchin' La Peace battle Eminem

Soon they handed me the mic to spit a rhyme and a verse

I was shocked to see the clock show the time in reverse

But I ain't wanna leave

Without hittin' my first blunt filled with chronic leaves

I choked up and couldn't breathe

That's the day I missed class, smellin' like twist grass

Mrs. Nash kicked me out because I'm not a kiss ass

So I visited places where spots got shot on a daily basis

Where kids pull triggers with babyfaces

Wait, I must be on the wrong side of the lane trail

Where they rob memory banks and end up in the brain cell

Where all my misery and pain dwell

I'm said to leave out my state of mind before the train bail

So now it's time to go

I threw the deuces up to Dilla, dapped up 'Tin and then I hug my mama slow

Yo

[Outro: Elzhi]

It's the place you wanna be, right

Next time I think I'll take the mental plane

Instead of the train of thought

Hopefully touch down

In a state in my mind, but I'll leave the mental baggage in the crib

Get back to that place

In Memory Lane