Looking Back

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Kas Solo] I remember when the days used to seem longer Seemed like nothing would change, we would always grow stronger Is how I used to feel, but now that I got chance to look back I [?] to realise I mistook that Endless days of fun, enjoying numerous relations All my boys were dumb, but we grew out of those phases Plus we were young, too proud to admit mistakes, and All the shit that comes with being an angry teenager I wish that I could go back to those days, kid I wish that I could go back to then (back to when?) When it all first started and my life felt whole Where the future was my target and my sight wasn't cold Waking up to the alarm, putting on my shell toes And catchin' a ride from mum, because the bus didn't go Around my way and my school was a long way to go Pick up all my friends along the way, then we would walk home And stop at the [?] store on the corner of Porter Spend a quarter, get a sugar buzz, go to Connie's and order Chilli cheese fries and a water, 'cause I was too broke for a soda But that was back then, nowadays I feel grown up Now everything has changed, nothing stayed the same Everything seems smaller and there's always shorter days Our future's look washed up [?] A lot of houses boarded up and the store's turned to a place to stay All my friends lost love and went away But I can't blame them, I got my own family to raise School turned to work, work turned to pain I was a fool that never learned [?] changed [Chorus: Jodes] It used to be easy, now it's not I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop Or slow down ("Slow down") Or slow down It used to be easy, now it's not I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop "Seasons change, mad things rearrange But it all stays the same" No, it doesn't [Verse 2: [?]] Now I'm a take it back like letters that be return to sender When the facts and days were better innocent with no agenda I don't endeavour to remember December in seventy-seven But I clearly remember October end of eighty-seven Suite cases full with my family while we stand in rundle mall Strangers staring and scaring me while parents search for all Possible places for our first night to sleep in a different city Now as an adult I look back at mum and dad and feeling pity Kind of shitty from the inside only now I appreciate Back then I couldn't calculate or estimate the path of fate Ten years of age tentative to engage and communicate You must assimilate with this culture maturing my mental state No speaking English family friends culture left back in Brazil Opposites of what I learned but combining them is a skill Year six, late eighty-nine, heard coppers get dissed in rhyme Motivated me so much in the clutch of researched to find Information as a student so prudent with observation No Internet for education but rappers in compilations Back then hip-hop did compete with dance music in central station And the source mag arrived six months from its publication Destination of the movement was unknown but not scared Only cared when someone dared to ask the size of your Nike air's This graffiti folklore making heroes of city kids Like the front page after the final in Melbourne for jail bids This fusion of type of bashing society now mush accept The culture that they didn't let it now comes back with intellect I've got a family like many with mortgages job and bills I'm going bald and getting old but improving my mental skills [Chorus: Jodes] It used to be easy, now it's not I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop Or slow down ("Slow down") Or slow down It used to be easy, now it's not I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop "Seasons change, mad things rearrange But it all stays the same" No, it doesn't [Verse 3: [?]] I remember when, all I had to remember then Two most important things, family and friends Those who stuck by my side and will to the end The ones we lost along the way, I'll always remember them Sometimes I spend, reminiscing how it used to be Leaves me wishing I could start reliving Back to the younger me Worry free thinking life's just a ride No matter what it be, I'd always give it a try I can't lie, while growing up I always took the hard way Still made it to a man but it feels like only yesterday Me and hewitt, name it we'd do it just to get a laugh Only so much a boy can learn sitting out the class Time passed, no sign of my behaviour getting better Seems all I got out of school was just another letter To a mother, still wonder how she made it on her own Giving me a home as well as Adidas Romes Reebok pumps, converse to Nike's Every step I took merely imprints behind me At times treading lightly, still wasn't hard to find me Now Morgans baby steps the imprints that guide me Into the next day, let's say the best ways The way that Ive chosen, well at least that's what I'm hoping Not for me but for those following my footsteps My daughter, my cousins point them right at where I took left Like the hook says it used to be easy now it's not Alot of sweating to be getting things this little kid once got Wanted the lot but really all I need was the basics Essentials for a life after all it's what you make it [Chorus: Jodes] It used to be easy, now it's not I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop Or slow down "Slow down" Or slow down It used to be easy, now it's not I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop "Seasons change, mad things rearrange But it all stays the same" "Slow down" It used to be easy, now it's not I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop Or slow down "Slow down" Or slow down "Slow down" It used to be easy, now it's not I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop "Slow down" It used to be easy, now it's not I'm feeling that this world has gotta stop Or slow down (slow down) Or slow down "Nowadays shit is different"