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present tense - past lyrics

[intro: present tense, sample]
this is a game that we played when we were+ when we were kids
how much+ how much are on retail?
are we recording?
aight cool
here we go
yes

[verse 1]
way back when before i [?]
i used to finger and facepaint
while being awake past eight was staying up late
left melbourne, moved upstate
a house with a gate ended my dad’s great debatе
i used to command the troops from inside thе couch walls
palmb+lls on brick walls and sit yoga style in halls
when the bath was an ocean, not a puddle
[?] we all put our feet in a huddle (oh yeah)
it went aerosport, lotto, lynx, dunlop
only a [?] could make the fun stop
[?] class, [?] my times tables
[?] glue under shoes to find staples
never brave enough to test the teacher [?]
sticking the route, snicker when they didn’t switch off the loudspeaker
not a crowd pleaser or class clown
i had to give speeches after notes were passed around
yeah, i misbehaved, get sent down a grade
[?] my job home but always down to play
ten lines near the equator and now below [?]
when sarah jones blew kisses, i didn’t dig girls overly
(ew, man, she’s got a girlfriend!)
[instrumental break]

[verse 2]
before the digital age, rewind the tape to the late eighties
in class, a big red x is what mistakes gave me
never wait to break out and split
a playground bigwig, i had kids mining rocks with sticks
jason was rich, he used to hit the tuck shop every big lunch
his pocket money made the jingle of big bucks
he’d even drop change and stop to watch the kids scramble
rock the flyest sand shoes and down to gamble
and daniel with a stealth bomber origami special
athletics, man, a chest full of ribbons and medals
before the bass and treble replaced the face of metal
i used to lace the recorder real special
the playground was graveyard for my first watch
and where all the transformers got got
decepticons or autobots, sandpit’s a hot spot
like [?], it sucked him in and they were never seen again
nathan was a ladies man, he used to pull their hair
and i was still there when the teachers had left after school care
finally get home, half my [?] had come with me
brand backs and wet tennis b+lls if kids tried to diss me

[instrumental break]
[verse 3]
semester’s end, saw summer rest on the next crest
at school socials, always played the right while girls played the left
sleepovers were the best, sneaking out at night
staying up late, commandos that kept out of sight
artifical light lit the lavatory
a magic potion in motion made from every bathroom product category
dirty hands and scuffed knees climbed trees with ease so high they’d bend in the breezes
and backyard battles, fighting over territories
rubberband handguns and glove guns with frozen peas
magnifying, roasting ants and burning leaves certainly
fingers over hoses squirting me
waterbomb raids and tip stains
times change like chapel names, and i’ve had plenty
from all these achieved dreams at tiffany’s and kenny still tempt me
holidays always seem to last forever and now they’re over in a second
lollies will never taste as nice or ever cost the right price
and they’re never gonna make cartoons quite as tight
and games will never be the same after the master system reigned
alex kidd and wonderboy made it the number one toy
it seems strange, in this commerical age
do kids live as well as we did? let imagine develop as is?
man, i don’t know, but i’d love to go back
for a day, no work, it’s just play

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