Where It Starts

[Intro]

Yeah, you what they say

Everything's gotta start somewhere, right

Well that's what this shit's about

In order to get to wherever we're going

We gotta go back, way back, like

Back in time

[Chorus]

We going back, back, forward

Always looking past where I brought it

The choice is yours, you can let it pass

Or take part, regardless, this is where it starts

We going back, back, forward (We're going back to get forward)

Always looking past where I brought it

This choice is yours, you can let it pass

(Always remembering and always being ahead)

Or take part, regardless, this is where it starts

(So shut up and listen, yeah)

[Verse 1]

Before it's performed, and before it's released

Before it's recorded, before it's written, before I scored the beat

Before the emails back and forth, hassling Trigga

For whatever heat, The Quickening ain't need

Before sold out tours, where the runs on the board

Got it looking like I never been bowled out before

And sure, it's before daughters and sisters and Mrs nationwide

Caught a glimpse and turned vicious, uh

Before listeners dissed 'cause the kids had a run

That'd leave Usain Bolt in the dust

Going three years young, what I've done with The Chase

The whole country embraced, they still rapping to their mates

So that love turned hate, when this unknown punk

Turned famed and it happened at an unheard rate

But before they lay blame, put 'em up on this

Before they gave a fuck what I did, I been doing it

[Chorus]

We going back, back, forward

Always looking past where I brought it

The choice is yours, you can let it pass

Or take part, regardless, this is where it starts

We going back, back, forward (yeah, yeah)

Always looking past where I brought it (right, right)

This choice is yours, you can let it pass (so [?])

Or take part, regardless, this is where it starts (yeah)

[Verse 2]

Before hitting my bed, after driving from Tullamarine

Before a flight spent trying to sleep

Before lying in the lounge, waiting on a plane

Still higher than the clouds looking out through the window pane

Before check in, packing, dressing

Before sitting in the shower for like half an hour

Before our tour manager is banging on my door (fuck off!)

Waking me up, before I pass out blind drunk

Before shot after shot after whatever the fuck

Punters got for me, cut for me, crushed or rolled up for me

Before I step off stage, before I kill it for an hour straight

Before Cam hits the first snare, and we away

For the set, before I pray, before I stretch

Before I chase straight vodka with the redbull that's left

It's just three motherfuckers sitting backstage

Hungover like "I swear I ain't drinking again", so

[Chorus]

We going back, back, forward

Always looking past where I brought it

The choice is yours, you can let it pass

Or take part, regardless, this is where it starts (where it starts, man)

We going back, back, forward (yeah)

Always looking past where I brought it (and this is where it's goin')

This choice is yours, you can let it pass (check it out)

Or take part, regardless, this is where it starts (yeah)

[Verse 3]

Before I'm gone, before I'm old

Before I'm big into classical and twilight strolls

Before I retire, fuck it, before I'm hired

Before milestones acquired, in my time in this rap shit

Before my business man's on, before they try and market this shit as a brand, stop

Before my whole damn camp’s on

Known as the Frankston Line Champ

And each fan thanked by hand, before

The whole future has come

I'll be chilling right here writing raps in tune with the drum

The truth hard to swallow when you don't chew once

Still hungry, dummies saying I already blew up

Nah, you don't believe me, watch

I got the next decade locked, by doing what I've done from the dot

So before I start talking like somebody I'm not

To please others, I'ma be in a box, like peace out (peace!)

[Chorus (Extended)]

We going back, back, forward

Always looking past where I brought it

Yeah man

The choice is yours, you can let it pass

Or take part, regardless, this is where it starts

(It's up to you, what you wanna do man?)

We going back, back, forward

Always looking past where I brought it (gotta start somewhere like)

This choice is yours, you can let it pass

Or take part, regardless, this is where it starts (so let me know, yeah)

We going back, back, forward (yeah, dude)

Always looking past where I brought it

This choice is yours, you can let it pass ([?] back to go forward)

Or take part, regardless, this is where it starts

(Trigga Trials on the beat)

We going back, back, forward (Illy Al on the mic)

Always looking past where I brought it (like that)

This choice is yours, you can let it pass

Or take part, regardless, this is where it starts