I know a place not far from here It's not far away, love, but if you come I know a place where we'll be alone And we'll talk of life, the way love used to be I know a place not far away And we'll find a way through the city streets We'll find a way through the mad rushing crowd And we'll talk about the way love used to be I know a place not far from here It's not far away, love, but if you come I know a place where we'll be alone And we'll talk about the way love used to be

Take it back to the afros and the naturals Cape cutter picks we slips into the back [?] I'm O.G. my nigga for real though Straight up off that east side top of the hill yo I'm looking at the overview Thinking bout 86 damn I was overdue Walking in the hood making mix tapes trying to walk up out the hood While I'm chucking at the hood nigga talk about the hood That I came from it raised me real Crip crazy [?] oops a daisy Demon or a heathen scheming while I'm dreaming Screaming to get even seeing is believing And don't you forget that Get it to you get back hit that kick back Three flies one a way Reminisce about the things that my grandmama use to say Stay in your own lane stay on your own and quick trying to be grown Day turn to night and play turn to fight Yeah I guess my granny was right Reflections of the way life used to be It's all right I like them girls from Ladera Heights or the girls on Hills I take a trip up the World On Wheels and get in a fight Make it back to my ride Pop shots at some suckers disrespecting the side My big homie my cuzzo schoolyard bozo Slid me away just to get me away I'm just a Long Beach nigga outside of my hood I'm banging riding but doing it good When I get locked down there ain't hiding and wondering As soon as I hit the County I'm up in 48 hundred With the dealers the killers the [?] The best from the west and the beast from the east Yeah I'm acting a fool I'm getting my degree from gladiator school I chose this life cause I knows this life Sell a little crack and my flows is tight I'm clear on my choice and what's cold is I can still hear my grandma's voice She say day turn to night and play turn to fight Yeah I guess my granny was right Reflections of the way life used to be It's all right If you get caught then you don't walk cause you don't talk And these was the rules squeeze on these fools I came up in a different era homie Where the G's is the G's and the little wannabe's really want it Wanna be like cause the C life make you wanna G like Now who you wanna be like That fool on the TV screen Or the homie on the corner getting major cream In the Cadillac beating like Battle Cat A nigga with money don't know how to act Smoke til your eyes get cataracts All money nonsense yeah none of that Quarter sack run it back Hold him back lock him up bag him up front him that If a trick jump the track do you want your money back Lil bitch was a bunny rat Watch for the funny hat Cause it's gonna come And my granny said it's no fun She say day turn to night and play turn to fight Yeah I guess my granny was right Reflections of the way life used to be It's all right

Lonely table just for one In a bright and crowded room While the music has begun I drink to memories in the gloom Though the music's still the same It has a bitter sweet refrain So play the song the way it used to be Before she left and changed it all to sadness And maybe if she's passing by the window She would hear our love song and the melody And even if the words are not so tender She will always remember the way it used to be Friends stop by and say hello (Huh!) And I laugh and hide the pain It's quite easy 'til they go Then the song begins again So play the song the way it used to be Before she left and changed it all to sadness And maybe if she's passing by the window She will hear our love song and the melody And even if the words are not so tender She will always remember the way it used to be

I'm here, you're there Come closer, tonight I'm lonely Come here with me I want it the way it used to be What is left of love? Tell me, who would even care? So much time has passed I'd still meet you anywhere Water under bridge Evening after day What is left of love Here that didn't drift away? I can remember days of sun We knew our lives had just begun We could do anything, we're fearless when we're young Under the moon, address unknown I can remember nights in Rome I thought that love would last, a promise set in stone I'd survive with only memories If I could change the way I feel But I want more than only memories A human touch to make them real Another day, another dream Over the bridge an empty scene We'd spend the weekend lost in bed and float upstream I don't know why we moved away Lost in the here and now we strayed Into a New York zone, our promise was betrayed I was there, caught on Tenth Avenue You elsewhere with Culver City blues Then and there I knew that I'd lost you What is left of love? Tell me, who will even care? So much time has passed I'd still meet you anywhere Water under bridge Evening after day What is left of love Here that didn't drift away? Don't give me all your northern pain Don't sell me New York in the rain Let's leave our promises behind Rewind and try again What remains in time that didn't fade away? Sometimes I need to see The way it used to be

I like my Fridays all alone With no reason to check my phone My friends are out and I think nothing of it Content with myself on my own When I look in your eyes Every day, every night I think about you all the time Yeah, you got me like who am I? (Oh-oh) If touchin' you's gonna make me easy That's okay 'cause I don't want space If not sayin' enough's gonna make you leave me I swear to God that I'll talk all day You never needed anybody but now you need me I was the same, but things have changed I'm needy I'm needy Want every moment that you're free And then I miss you when you leave I bet your mama probably thinks I'm selfish Look at what you've done to me When I look in your eyes Every day, every night I think about you all the time Yeah, you got me like who am I? (Oh-oh) If touchin' you's gonna make me easy That's okay 'cause I don't want space If not sayin' enough's gonna make you leave me I swear to God that I'll talk all day You never needed anybody but now you need me I was the same, but things have changed I'm needy I know how it sounds but I don't, I don't care, no I know how it sounds but I don't, I don't care, no I know how it sounds but I don't, I don't care, no I know how it sounds If touchin' you's gonna make me easy (I don't, I don't care, no) That's okay 'cause I don't want space (I don't, I don't care, no) If not sayin' enough's gonna make you leave me (I don't, I don't care, no) I swear to God that I'll talk all day You never needed anybody but now you need me I was the same, but things have changed I'm needy Oh, mmm

Yeah, I like my friends, yeah, I like tequila I like puttin' on a dress and dancin' with my feelings I could be the life of any party (hey) I can play along with anybody, but sorry (hey) I don't wanna go to the club I don't wanna watch everybody around me tryna hook up And say stuff they don't mean And get drunk and get cheap So what's wrong with me? 'Cause I don't wanna go to the club I already know it ain't worth it in the morning, uh-uh And, yeah, I like the high, I just don't like payin' for it I'm stressin' over conversations (hey) But now that's anxiety that I'm erasin', 'cause lately (hey) I don't wanna go to the club I don't wanna watch everybody around me tryna hook up And say stuff they don't mean And get drunk and get cheap So what's wrong with me? 'Cause I don't wanna go to the club I don't wanna wake up on the floor of a bathroom Lookin' at the stamps on my hand like a tattoo Say I'm never doin' that again if I don't have to And I don't have to go to the club Mmm (hey) So I don't wanna go to the club, nah-nah, nah-nah (hey) I don't wanna go to the club I don't wanna watch everybody around me tryna hook up And say stuff they don't mean And get drunk and get cheap So what's wrong with me? 'Cause I don't wanna go to the club I don't wanna go to the club I don't wanna, I don't wanna, I don't wanna go (I don't watch everybody around me tryna hook up) I don't wanna go to the club (and say stuff they don't mean) I don't wanna, I don't wanna, I don't wanna go (and get drunk and get cheap) So what's wrong with me? (Hey) 'Cause I don't wanna go to the club I don't wanna wake up on the floor of a bathroom Lookin' at the stamps on my hand like a tattoo Say I'm never doin' that again if I don't have to And I don't have to go to the club