1989 Lyrics - Devlins

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 favorite 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 

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 MC's are opening doors in the same ways 

As I did when I was a kid, I reach 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 attendance 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?