Devlin – 1989 Lyrics
Lyrics
Verse 1
- 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.
Chorus
- 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? '
Verse 2
- 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.
Chorus
- 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? '
Verse 3
- 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.
Chorus
- 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? '
Verse 4
- 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.
Chorus
- 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? '