I feel like it was yesterday on a Saturday
Grandma cooking up a storm all for this holiday
Dumplings on the steamer, the cleaver is on the side
The sounds on the tv see the excitement in my eyes
Got Nintendo games, see the window frames
When I take a look outside I see reflections of my innocence
I'm talking bout the house that I grew up in all my life
Right next to beacon avenue located on the side
We would ride, take our bikes around and buy
A bunch of magic cards and bring em home and crack em open
We dueling all on the floor when the borders were kinda white
After that we wrestling the daytime would turn to night
It was tight but I really loved the couch
The cushions would come out and we would lay it on the ground
While we watching all our shows and our favorites were all cartoons
I'm thinking bout the house that I grew up in my youth

That was the start to my route
I'm talk-ing bout my first house
I wish that I could go now
I know it's been a long while

Look at the paths that we crossed
Not all who wander are lost
I loved my beautiful start
I still feel it in my heart

Jr high was really really wack that's enough of that
I guess we're growing into who we're really trying to be
I had the bangs they hanging on the sides up on my face
I put a bunch of posters in my room up in this place
That's my comfort zone play that crazy bone
This is way before dat jazzhop integrated through the saxophone
My home was my safe haven where painting was my escape
I would sit for days while my writing would take away
Any pain I felt got that wrestling belt
Hanging on the side of my closet it made me want to push myself
And reach another level and make it up out the dirt
We got a hundred years as a max and we out this earth
I want to touch a life, let em know it'll be alright
As long as you stay focused it don't matter what your start is like
You see me reminiscing on the room where I grew up
The four walls that surrounded me giving me just enough

That was the start to my route
I'm talk-ing bout my first house
I wish that I could go now
I know it's been a long while

Look at the paths that we crossed
Not all who wander are lost
I loved my beautiful start
I still feel it in my heart

Now I'm looking back as a grown folk, In my own home
Been around the map and traveled down around the coastal's
I been here reminiscing and missing my younger days
The city that i knew is a new one and not the same
Guess it's natural that's how life evolves
Every minute we are changing it's impossible to stay on pause
And still we holding onto all the items that we know
A graduation cap and my degree rolled like a scroll
I remember that, and my favorite class
Double A-S-206, where Connie So would come and lay the facts
And now I'm sitting here in the room and I'm flashing back
The pictures on my wall while I'm playing my favorite tracks
Felt like yesterday, and the sun is out
The way the windows illuminate the room it makes me want to think aloud
I'm talking bout my youth and the house that i grew up in
Even though its over i'll remember til the end

That was the start to my route
I'm talk-ing bout my first house
I wish that i could go now
I know it's been a long while

Look at the paths that we crossed
Not all who wander are lost
I loved my beautiful start
I still feel it in my heart