1989 Lyrics

1989 by Devlin

• 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 class 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.

• Life can pass 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 pass 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 grass stains up and down my legs and arms
• And with a fresh beer clenched in my palm.
• 16: My bars are different class
• 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.

• Life can pass 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 pass 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 'cock it and shoot'.
• MC's being cocky 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.

• Life can pass 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 pass 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 fucked up but I'm only nineteen and I've got a lot of living still.

• Life can pass 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 pass you buy, just watch how fast it flies
• 1989's when I started mine, now I'm like 'what happened to the time? '

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