Back in Time (Hard Times & Hard Liquor)

[Verse 1: C-Mob]
Everyday it's the same thang
No time to chill
I gotta go work get out on the grind
I gotta go hustle to pay the bills and I
Feel the stress on my shoulders and paranoia so I'm packing the nine
Sometimes I sit and I smoke and I drink and I think what if I could go back into time
To when I lived like I had nothing to lose
When I'd say fuck it and get drunk cause I had nothing to do
But now I'm lucky to get spare time
With all the work and all the stress I'm lucky I still have a hairline
So much has happened since my childhood
Too many times when there's a frown on my face
Right where a smile should
Been through too much violence
Been through too much drama
Spent too many nights stressing
But it is what it is and I'm living and learning through all of these life lessons
We used to carry our penny candy in brown bags
But now we're carrying Tech's with 30-round mags
We went from water-guns to packing nines
And all we have now is memories of how life was back in time

[Hook: C-Mob & Irv Da Phenom] (x2)
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time
To when everything seemed easy and life was just a simple grind
Felt so much pain I've shed my last tears
Sometimes I sit by myself and reminisce over past years (alright)

(back in time)

[Verse 2: C-Mob]
Back in the day friends were real and everybody acted cool
We used to get in all types of shit when we would go mobbing right after school
Act a fool
And beat a hater to the soil
And none of my guys was snitching because they were true and loyal
But nowadays friends are the first ones that'll be stabbing you in the back
As a teenager smoking blacks
But now they grown and smoking crack
What's the deal
I never thought that I'd see my guy
Broke as hell still living with his mamma but he's happy if he's high
Don't know why
That everything is the way it is
Sometimes I'm wishing that it would just go back to the way that it was when we were kids
But I know that it won't be cause they've changed up
They're unrealistic, I've dismissed these bitches who twisted the game up
And I have names I could be calling out
But you know who you are because recently we have all been falling out
Wish I could stop this shit from happening
But I know that me and my guys'll never be how we used to be back then

[Hook: C-Mob & Irv Da Phenom] (x2)
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time (back in time)
To when everything seemed easy and life was just a simple grind
Felt so much pain I've shed my last tears
Sometimes I sit by myself and reminisce over past years (alright)

(back in time)

[Verse 3: C-Mob]
Everything happens for a reason I know that God has a plan
Friends from back in the day been passing away and I don't understand
Why did my Grandpa die God you coulda told the cancer to go?
And why did Stephen have to answer the door?
Now tell me can I get a answer for those?
And what about Red and what about Otis and Marv?
And Lord you coulda protected Ghost in his car
Young kids hungry for money and we were ready for work
By the time some of us were in our twenties we were dead in the dirt
My head it'd a hurt
When I think about everything changed
The strain on my brain is the main thang causing me pain in the game
But still I maintain
It seems like my life is fed bye
And all my folks in a correctional facility keep your head high
Don't fuck with fakes cause I was bred to be true
So all the friends who stabbed me in the back are dead to me too
Too many of my loved ones passing away
I guess it'll never be how it used to be back in the day

[Hook: C-Mob] (x2)
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time (back in time)
To when everything seemed easy and life was just a simple grind
Felt so much pain I've shed my last tears
Sometimes I sit by myself and reminisce over past years (alright)

[Verse 4: Irv Da Phenom]
Sitting here by myself drinking Hennessy
Thinking bout all the friends turned to enemies
All the loved ones passing away
Damn I missed how it was back in the day
Back in time (x6)