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1999
Travel back to the year 1999
When we were young
We were fresh
We were better than the rest
High school
Nu school
Just right
Still cool
Playing N64
Getting them high scores
Jordan was the man
Success was the plan
We were stoned all day
Learning how to play guitar
Too young to drink at bars
Porno was still in magazines
Wearing waist high baggy jeans
We were living life so carefree
Not knowing what we wanted to be
Drinking coke
Smoking dope
Too self centered to get eloped
PS2 wasn’t even a thing
Walking around with our fake diamond rings
We were fools of our own design
Thinking this world will become all mine
That was 20 years ago
Oh so long ago
Working 9 to 5
Became a father in 2005
Again in 2010
Still didn’t know what I was doing then
Brush your teeth
Wash your feet
Pack a lunch
Now it’s time to punch out
Do it all again
Day after day
Stuck in a dead end job with nothing to say
High school is where I peaked
It’s where I went and called kid freaks
Now they run this world
They run it from the ground up
People you can’t talk to and say what’s up
If I could go back in time
Do it all again one last time
I would change who I was then
How different things could have been
If only I could cross this line
To travel back to the year 1999
When we were young
We were fresh
We were better than the rest
High school
Nu school
Just right
Still cool
Playing N64
Getting them high scores
Jordan was the man
Success was the plan
We were stoned all day
Learning how to play guitar
Too young to drink at bars
Porno was still in magazines
Wearing waist high baggy jeans
We were living life so carefree
Not knowing what we wanted to be
Drinking coke
Smoking dope
Too self centered to get eloped
PS2 wasn’t even a thing
Walking around with our fake diamond rings
We were fools of our own design
Thinking this world will become all mine
That was 20 years ago
Oh so long ago
Working 9 to 5
Became a father in 2005
Again in 2010
Still didn’t know what I was doing then
Brush your teeth
Wash your feet
Pack a lunch
Now it’s time to punch out
Do it all again
Day after day
Stuck in a dead end job with nothing to say
High school is where I peaked
It’s where I went and called kid freaks
Now they run this world
They run it from the ground up
People you can’t talk to and say what’s up
If I could go back in time
Do it all again one last time
I would change who I was then
How different things could have been
If only I could cross this line
To travel back to the year 1999
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