Remember the Times

[Verse 1: Raphael Saadiq, Raphael Saadiq & Dawn Robinson]

I was walking down the street

Looking at my feet

I didn't have no shoes

On the way to school

Looking like a fool

And everybody knew

But it was all right

'Cause my friends of mine

Knew I had a guitar

They knew I would play

Become a big star

And I would go so far

[Chorus: Raphael Saadiq & Dawn Robinson, Dawn]

Remember the times

When I didn't have a dime

We remember the times

When I didn't have a dime

Those were the best days

[Verse 2: Raphael Saadiq, Raphael Saadiq & Dawn Robinson]

Going down the street, playing at the mall

On them cheap bikes

Looking for somebody to steal

Somebody to rob and somebody to fight

I didn't know my name as well

As I knew my friends

But I knew we were so cool

But everybody wanted to play by their own rules

We didn't go to school

[Chorus: Raphael Saadiq & Dawn Robinson, Dawn]

I remember the times

(Remember the time)

When I didn't have a dime

(Not even a dime)

I remember the times

(Remember the times)

When I didn't have a dime

(Not even a dime)

Those were the best days

[Verse 3: Raphael Saadiq, Raphael Saadiq & Dawn Robinson, Dawn]

By the time I was fourteen or fifteen

Trying to pass my driver's test

The thing to do was to drive to school

'Cause I could never win for best dressed

(I could never win for best dressed)

I drove a raggedy car

To sneak in the bars

Young boy life has no stress

(Young boy life has no stress)

Watching cartoon

And popping balloons

That was the best

[Chorus: Raphael Saadiq & Dawn Robinson, Dawn]

Remember the times

(Remember the times)

When I didn't have a dime

(Not even a dime)

I remember the times

(Remember the times)

When I didn't have a dime

(Not even a dime)

Those were the best days

[Outro]

Yeah, I was in junior high school 35

And um, I think it was '82 or '83

And everyone was wearing these Nikes

You know the ones with the little suede lip on the front and the canvas

It wasn't canvas like nylon, the Swoosh or whatever

I told my mom I wanted those, so we went down to Modell's

Heh, she saw the price, she was like

"Well, we could get two of them other little cheap things for the same price as those"

Man, I remember that