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By Lyricist B

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Thinkin' Back!
[A somber reflective rap song]
[W/Strong Bass Guit. Intro & throughout!] [W/8 Bar Bass Guit. Intro---Med. HIP HOP Beat]


Verse : 1 [13 Bars ---Typ.]
Thinkin' back on yesteryear. If I go back far enough. I really didn't have no fears. These are the times my mom sent me to store for cigarettes at eight! During those times most people wasn't fake---but for some now, everyday's like Halloween! Thy put on masks and run their schemes to escape !
Those were the days with "Songs In The Key of Life, by Stevie Wonder---but how we got so out of tune I can only wonder!

Chorus : [After every verse---Typ.]
Now... just thinkin' back on times gone past---life's hard trials and tragedies made me think I wasn't gonna last! So I'm just continplating and now thinkin ' back!
Thinkin back...!Thinkin back...!Thinkin back...!Thinkin back...!



Verse 2:
Back in the day, life was filled with fun and play----see that's a place I wish I really could've stayed! Having playground fun takes me all the way back to my childhood! See, back then we was living in the hood---Hough, EC and Lakeview, respectively. But the shotguns sounding tells me that it ain't what it it was,today! Ragan talked about a war on drugs---but that was to late after so many died from slugs! But sorry to inform you, Mr President, that they gets no love!

Chorus [2X's]

Verse 3:
What Hillary said is true---that "It takes a village" to raise the children to!----but homelessness and drugs runnin' rampant to!
See, the village is in trouble so we better help them on the double!
So all the fatherless homes really don't know what to do! When I was growing up men were proud to be a dad! But but we're raising a fatherless generation---it's so sad! I remember the days when we'd have real block parties! But now they don't even speak to you and are quick to part ways!


Chorus [2X's]

Verse:4
But now the neighbors might hit you with a glock party! An water balloon you and quickly part ways!So many children our out here forsaken---then we wonder why we have so many break ins! Our village has sadly become our streets! Raising up Crack babies with no food to eat! I see it every day as I walk the streets!
See, we have a whole generation with no shoes on their feet!---with no where to got but being past up by the elite!

Chorus [2X's]

Verse 5:
We just walk past them to go to our big homes---while we leave them peril, home along. They are somebody's sons, daughters and family! But we act like we don't see them cryin' out so desperately! We turn a blind eye to their misery because we've forsaken our family! Just thikin' back on yesterday, I wish we could go back and there's no amount of money that I wouldn't to go back to those good old days!
But please remember, I wrote this song for change!

Ending Chorus [4X's---Til beat 4 Bars then abrupt ending]
Just"tthikin ' back",[Repeat 4X's]
[4 Bar percussion end!]