Devlin - 1989 lyrics

I remember when I was twelve years old No worries in my brain with a pound in my pocket And a chest full of smoke I remember all the chordies we drove. We used to play football all day and use jumpers for goalposts And throw egg yolks at windows to wind up the old folks Started learning about the birds and the bees So there's birds from my cla** on their knees behind trees. My favourite MC was Sharkey Major Way before I hit one double O three, Temptation, Kiss 100, or Flava Get off from school and take... Ninety two point three but let's skip forward in time Seven years down the line and it seems the spotlights on me Sometimes I still wish that I was still twelve or thirteen. [Chorus:] Life can pa** you buy, just watch how fast it flies 1989's when I started mine, now I'm like 'what happened to the time? ' Life can pa** you buy, just watch how fast it flies 1989's when I started mine, now I'm like 'what happened to the time? ' 15: Bag of weed, bag of beers in the park Duckin' out from Feds in the dark. Then we appear with gra** stains up and down my legs and arms And with a fresh beer clenched in my palm. 16: My bars are different cla** I've been rolling with Dogz and Glamour and Shotz for a year I've been steppin' up fast. I guess I got around in the bits. I was selling bags of bud and Tales from the Crypt. I met Ghetts when I was 14, lost touch. By 16, I'd linked up with Ghetts again Rolling with The Movement and started doing sets for them. Mercston, Scorcher, Unique and Wretch and 'em. 2006, I was 17 when I finished my first solo CD But this time there's an album in the midst. [Chorus:] Life can pa** you buy, just watch how fast it flies 1989's when I started mine, now I'm like 'what happened to the time? ' Life can pa** you buy, just watch how fast it flies 1989's when I started mine, now I'm like 'what happened to the time? ' By the time I hit 17, I was the coldest younger on the scene With bars you never heard and flow you never seen. Before I come around it was 'co*k it and shoot'. MC's being co*ky and rude, then I moved to some deep concepts in my tunes. Monitor my brain waves, tell me if I'm crazed but I think the games changed And MCs are opening doors in the same ways. As I did when I was a kid, I'm... radio waves And now I'm paving the way for a fatal display Might blaze in a haze till I'm dazed then wave a grenade in your face 17 with bars that I regulate and generate pace I'm only scared of who my enemies face. [Chorus:] Life can pa** you buy, just watch how fast it flies 1989's when I started mine, now I'm like 'what happened to the time? ' Life can pa** you buy, just watch how fast it flies 1989's when I started mine, now I'm like 'what happened to the time? ' 19: Showing strength in the booth Now it's time to prove what Devlin can do. From the very first time I ever crept on a tune I've immensely improved, the ascendance is due. Original spitter, not remnants of you. Swear I can see success in my view. Crazy what letters in a sentence can do Cause my lyrics are the only thing sending me through. Kanye called me a gangster rapper; I'm not a gangster rapper Devs, I just spit it real. You're an MC like C difficile. I look skinny cause I keep on missing meals. I'll get cold like you know how frigid feels. No children, sticking them rigid still I guess my life's f**ed up but I'm only nineteen and I've got a lot of living still. [Chorus:] Life can pa** you buy, just watch how fast it flies 1989's when I started mine, now I'm like 'what happened to the time? ' Life can pa** you buy, just watch how fast it flies 1989's when I started mine, now I'm like 'what happened to the time? '