Objects In Rearview Mirror Appear Closer Than They Are

I sit there and read the words. I'm sitting in this car.
"Objects in rearview mirror appear closer than they are."
I laugh to myself as I sit and reminisce.
I close my eyes and think of a deeper meaning than this.

"This," what I referring to is the days of my youth.
I open my eyes to see a young boy in the rear-view.
It's me! Look how young and a bad little thing I was!
Mama chasing me with the belt and whipping like she's smelling blood.

I'm now in a kitchen and I see my grandma!
She's cooking my favorite, beans and rice,"Come and get it hon!"
I smile to myself and say, "How I do miss her!
When she was alive we use to have so much fun."

There is my cousin! With lampshades on our heads we use to play.
"One day you'll sit back and laugh at this," mama use to say.
Look at me jumping off the house! I use to think this was fun.
I'm now saying to myself, "Oh my, I was a dangerous son of a gun."

There's the girl who stole my heart! She was truly my first love.
So beautiful looking like an angel sent from up above.
There I am telling "yo mama jokes" with a bunch of my friends.
Drinking like a school of fish, it was the gin that made us sin!

Now I see me much older now. I see me at my wedding.
I was starting to make a family now...this was the perfect setting.
My son is now born. He was such a beautiful boy.
I'm making changes in my life, because my family is now my joy.

The joy, pain, achievements and failures of my life is like turning the page.
Sitting back in amazement of how I've come of age.
Again, looking in the rear-view...all is gone. I sit here in this car.
Objects in rear-view mirror appear closer than they are.