Goddamn, man, can you believe I got two parking tickets today? Man, that's some bullshit I just got a ticket for using the phone while driving And I was just trying to pay off my parking tickets through the phone, man Aw, that sucks, remember back in the day when we didn't have to worry about shit like that? Yeah man, the only tickets I was worrying about was lunch tickets, you know what I'm sayin'? Yo, ha, yo Ice cream trucks and Saturday morning cartoons Staring at the calendar, hoping summer would start soon Lunch tickets, forty ounces Missing class, chasing chicks Going to the nurse's office just so I could take a shit Petty theft, dine and ditching Runnin' from that Denny's check Yo mama's so fat, just fill in the blank, Jenny Craig Flamin' hot Cheetos, wilin' out on that LA shit Damn, I was worse than the motherfucking Bebe's kids Treated this world like my personal sand lot Then sooner or later started workin' a damn job Can't stop, won't stop, turned into last stop I couldn't pay bills with the earning of mad props Back in the day when I was young, I ain't a kid anymore Practically used up all my energy source Why the hell do kids wanna grow up so fast? (Why?) Nobody told me being grown up's so ass Before the jobs Before the bills Before the stress Before my life turned into a complicated mess, I used to Sit back, live day to day The future just seemed so far away We was chasing girls and smoking weed Ain't that the way it's supposed to be? Hey The world was a playground Damn, I miss those days now Yo, I used to roll around town in a fucked up van Me and my crew smoking weed out a crushed up can We'd have a bunch of forty ounces that my boy's older brother bought Usually Mickey's but maybe some type of other malt We never had no place to be We would drive around all night aimlessly Maybe stop in a random parking lot for a second Holler at some hoes just to get rejected But when we did it We would tell 'em all, "Get in My mom's van's big enough for all y'all to fit in" Now we nine deep, rollin' down the side street, cruisin' Lookin' for a spot to park and keep boozin' Sit and chatter 'bout shit that didn't matter Drink more beer, girls didn't care about your career In the minivan, parked on the shoulder We used to say we couldn't wait to get older Before the jobs Before the bills Before the stress Before my life turned into a complicated mess, I used to Sit back, live day to day The future just seemed so far away We was chasing girls and smoking weed Ain't that the way it's supposed to be? Hey The world was a playground Damn, I miss those days now I could never get shit with my fake ID 'Cause I'm not 35 and I ain't Chinese Shoplifting at the mini mart Tricky part's to rip apart the sticker off the liquor jar I'll just take a Snicker bar I used to kick it in the woods eatin' mushroom caps Remember beatin' on the table, spittin' lunchroom raps Sneakin' out, late night, tryna go get some ass At the homie's garage instead of going to class Waitin' in line at the club No guest list love Just five on the dub And the rest on Funyuns As a youngin, I was so alive and energetic Now I'm pathetic You said it I don't do nothing athletic Bad credit Gettin' overdraft fees Back then I wouldn't know what that means But the older cats seemed So stressed So depressed Always bitchin' and strugglin' Now I'm one of them, wishin' that I was young again Before the jobs Before the bills Before the stress Before my life turned into a complicated mess, I used to Sit back, live day to day The future just seemed so far away We was chasing girls and smoking weed Ain't that the way it's supposed to be? Hey The world was a playground Damn, I miss those days now Wait a second, man, we still do all that shit Oh yeah Let's go get a blunt though