Second Childhood - 9th Wonder/Nas.mp3

[00:09.55]Yo
[00:10.86]Explode, my thoughts were drunken from quarts of beers
[00:13.73]Was years back, before Nasir would explore a career in rap
[00:16.89]As a music dude, I mastered this Rubik's Cube
[00:19.40]Godzilla, fought Gargantua, eyes glued to the tube
[00:22.51]Was a, long time ago, John Boy Ice
[00:25.22]Geronimo po-lice jumping out Chryslers, easywider paper
[00:28.65]Pops puffin his sess, punching his chest like a gorilla
[00:32.00]Outside was psychoes, killers
[00:33.99]Saw Divine, Goon and Chungo, Lil' Turkey
[00:36.60]R.I.P. Tyrone, 'member no cursing front of Ms. Vercey
[00:39.66]Big Percy, Crazy Paul, the Sledge Sisters
[00:41.93]My building was 40-16, once in the blue, hallways was clean
[00:45.48]I knew, all that I'd seen had meant something
[00:47.73]Learned early, to fear none little Nas was hunting
[00:50.89]Living carefree laughing, got jokes on the daily
[00:53.78]Y'all acting like some old folks y'all don't hear me
[00:56.08]Yo I'm in my second childhood
[00:57.66]"Cause when I flow the for the street"
[00:58.71]"Who else could it be?" - "N-A-S, Nas"
[01:02.50]"Resurrect, through the birth of my seed"
[01:04.53]"Queensbridge, Make everything right"
[01:07.38]"Get yours.."
[01:09.04]"Cause when I flow the for the street"
[01:10.21]"Who else could it be?" - "N-A-S, Nas"
[01:13.82]"Resurrect, through the birth of my seed"
[01:15.95]"Queensbridge, Make everything right"
[01:18.70]Yo, "Get yours.."
[01:19.53]Dude is 31, living in his moms crib
[01:22.37]Ex-convict, was paroled there after his long bid
[01:25.82]Cornrows in his hair, still slinging, got a crew
[01:28.55]They break his moms furniture, watching Comicview
[01:31.51]Got babies by different ladies high smoking L's
[01:34.27]In the same spot he stood since, eighty-five well
[01:37.38]When his stash slow, he be crazy
[01:39.53]Say he by his moms, hit her on her payday
[01:42.05]Junior high school dropout, teachers never cared
[01:45.20]They was paid just to show up and leave, no one succeeds
[01:48.31]So he moves with his peers, different blocks, different years
[01:51.08]Sitting on, different benches like it's musical chairs
[01:53.83]All his peoples moved on in life, he's on the corners at night
[01:57.22]With young dudes it's them he want to be like
[01:59.45]It's sad but it's fun to him right? He never grew up
[02:02.70]31 and can't give his youth, he's in his second childhood
[02:06.18]"Cause when I flow the for the street"
[02:07.46]"Who else could it be?" - "N-A-S, Nas"
[02:10.16]"Resurrect, through the birth of my seed"
[02:13.07]"Queensbridge, Make everything right, Get yours"
[02:17.38]"Cause when I flow the for the street"
[02:18.80]"Who else could it be?" - "N-A-S, Nas"
[02:22.41]"Resurrect, through the birth of my seed"
[02:24.67]"Queensbridge, Make everything right..Get yours.."
[02:28.20]Baby girl she's always talking name dropping hanging late
[02:31.16]Drinking smoking hates her baby daddy, craves shopping
[02:33.81]E popping Ecstasy taking, won't finish her education
[02:37.23]Best friend she keeps changing, stuck with limitations
[02:40.15]Lusting men, many hotels, Fendi Chanel
[02:42.67]With nothing in her bank account fronting she do well
[02:45.18]Her kid suffers he don't get that love he deserve
[02:47.98]He the Sun, she the Earth, single mom, even worse
[02:50.82]No job never stay working, mad purty
[02:53.47]Shorty they call her the brain surgeon
[02:55.56]Time flying she the same person, never matures
[02:58.15]All her friends married doing well
[03:00.07]She's in the streets yakkety yakkin like she was 12
[03:02.95]Honey is twenty-seven, argues fights
[03:05.24]Selfish in her own right, polite
[03:07.29]Guess she's in her second childhood
[03:08.90]"Cause when I flow the for the street"
[03:10.27]"Who else could it be?" - "N-A-S, Nas"
[03:13.78]"Resurrect, through the birth of my seed"
[03:16.12]"Queensbridge, Make everything right"
[03:19.29]"Get yours.."
[03:20.39]"Cause when I flow the for the street"
[03:21.61]"Who else could it be?" - "N-A-S, Nas"
[03:24.67]"Resurrect, through the birth of my seed"
[03:27.43]"Queensbridge, Make everything right"
[03:30.63]"Get yours.."