1st Verse:


We used to roll through Inglewood bumping The Beasties

Dana Dane on repeat 'till the tapedeck deceased

Me, my brother Carlo, bTwice and Ern Brn

Singing "You must learn"

Turned the same corner thousands of times

Thousands of crimes petty but still we jetty

Thousands of rhymes in our minds until we caught a headache

Those were the days these are the nights I'm afraid

To say it I hang them in my heart save them for a rainy day


Chorus:


Beastie Boys, Dana Dane and JJ Fad

Oh it kinda make me sad

Because oh we growin' old

Oh we growin' old oh we growin' old

Fats Boys, "Beat Street" and Kangol hats

Oh it kinda makes me sad

Because oh we growin' old

Oh we growin' old oh we growin' old


2nd Verse:


Way back in 1989 before hip hop had perks

The girls had "I Love Daisies" on their shirts and it worked

With me falling in love with the whole scene with a dream

That I'd rock the stage and do the same dang thing

Ties hanging from the pants everybody had dreadlocks

Back then light skinned negroes ruled the whole block

We rocked polka dots gangstas wore Guess with house shoes

Without a care with nothing to lose come on


Chorus:


De La Soul, JB's and A Tribe Called Quest

Man we didn't know what we missed

Oh we growin' old oh we growin' old

Oh we growin' old

3rd Base, Special Ed and KRS

Years ahead all of the rest

Oh we growin' old oh we growin' old

Oh we growin' old

The Pharcyde, Souls Of Mischief and the Wu Tang Clan

Oh we didn't have a plan

Oh we growin' old oh we growin' old

Oh we growin' old

The Freestyle Fellowship and MC Shan

The wind blew away the sand

Because oh we growin' old oh we growin' old

Oh we growin' old


Outro:


I once the whole world

And all the time in the land

The mountains high and the valleys low

I never planned

That it would leak right through hand

And I guess it's too late to know


B-boys B-girls

Be boys be girls good night