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