Bacc in Da Day

1983 I was eight years old
Seemed like every street in Compton
Was paved in gold and
My living condition was average but it really didn’t matter
Cause the streets wasn’t so savage
Beginning of an era of a drug epidemic
I was living carefree
I wasn’t so pessimistic
About the future

Perhaps cause I was still a little kid
And my neighbors had chickens geese and roosters
But now another gang would try to uproot you
Send out the homies to help out a G and shoot you
So it is crucial that you don’t know what’s coming or r what’s next
Killers come in five like the usual suspects

I’d give anything to go back in the day
To see my loved ones resting with a smile on they face
It’s a cold world feel like I’m trapped in a maze
I’m thinking Lord why it had to happen this way

I’d give anything to go back in the day
To see my loved ones resting with a smile on they face
It’s a cold world feel like I’m trapped in a maze
I’m thinking Lord why it had to happen this way

I was living la vida loca see I ain’t broight the toker
They taught me at the end you oughta callate la boca
So before I came a chief I had to be a soldier
Whether I’m young or older let nobody fuck you over

I looked up to Cheese Man, Big Tweet and Honcho
So if you owe me better roll my money pronto
Catch you out the lightning leave your body on the Gondo
Need a clip it’s 30 the chopper ain’t got a Hondo
Catch you on my path I’m gonna pass ‘em out like rondo
GIP Tonto treat my nigga Bondo free Baby Bam, LittleSpank and Jay Smash
For my nigga Blame a loc I’m gonna let the K blast

I’d give anything to go back in the day
To see my loved ones resting with a smile on they face
It’s a cold world feel like I’m trapped in a maze
I’m thinking Lord why it had to happen this way

I’d give anything to go back in the day
To see my loved ones resting with a smile on they face
It’s a cold world feel like I’m trapped in a maze
I’m thinking Lord why it had to happen this way

I’d give anything to go back in the day
To see my loved ones resting with a smile on they face
It’s a cold world feel like I’m trapped in a maze
I’m thinking Lord why it had to happen this way

I’d give anything to go back in the day
To see my loved ones resting with a smile on they face
It’s a cold world feel like I’m trapped in a maze
I’m thinking Lord why it had to happen this way