Those Were The Days

Those Were The Days - Lady Sovereign (女君主)

We used to play jump the line

Or who could wrap the swing

Around the frame the most times

Back in the day

Riding our bikes

Around the estate

And playin' basketball

In the cage

Those were the days

I remember them water fights

The tap outside

Just to race to it on our bikes

Grinnin' with two front teeth missin'

We did what we like

Those days are missin'

Those days were alright

Knock down ginger

Knock knock then shift

Two minutes later

We got locked in the lift

Laughin' when we got out

Got into silly arguments

About who found the

Pound on the ground

Bopped to the shops bought

About ten ice pops

The weather was hot so

They melted in our pockets

Used to carry my belongings

In them McDonald's bum bags

That was back then

So boy don't mock it

Yeah yeah

Yo those were the days

I will never forget

Yeah yeah

Yo those were the days

I could never regret

Yeah yeah

Yo those were the days

I will never forget

Yeah yeah

Yo those were the days

We used to race down the

Hill in old safe way trolleys

I wasn't indoors playing

With Barbie's or dollies

I was outside jumpin'

Off walls or playin' football

Or getting chased by

The local pit bull

The odd character

That every borough had

Mad Phillip

Ginger beard or Mad Max

The places you wouldn't wanna

See when you're on your jacks

In the places you wouldn't be

In if you stuck to your packs

Stayed out till

It was pitch black

Sprayed my name

On concrete slabs

And I never got b**** slapped

Seen a couple of mans

Get stabbed

Been chased by the mad man

Gotta get back

So I can catch joke with

My next door neighbor

We played the first Mortal

Kombat on the Sega

Back then playing the latest

Jungle tunes we had

On cassette

Those were the days

I will never forget

Yeah yeah

Yo those were the days

I will never forget

Yeah yeah

Yo those were the days

I could never regret

Yeah yeah

Yo those were the days

I will never forget

Yeah yeah

Yo those were the days

Remember naf naf jackets

And spliffy jeans

Adidas campus

Them things were in

It wasn't about the

King of the bling

It was the king of the rim

Or the king of the swing

Back then well I kind has less

But less was much better

'Cause it saved a lot of stress

I hung out in Coffers

Community center

They've knocked it down

And replaced it with an Asda

My parents way of tellin'

Us to get our backs in

Was them sounding

Some old f***ing klaxon

A soldier marched back

Up to Radcliffe Walk

Chalk hill Estate don't exist

No more

It's just talk

Yeah yeah

Yo those were the days

I will never forget

Yeah yeah

Yo those were the days

I could never regret

Yeah yeah

Yo those were the days

I will never forget

Yeah yeah

Yo those were the days

Those were the days

Those were the days