Light Speed - Grieves

Born blind in the winter with an empty head

The snow covered up the Camry, the whole house slept

Drawing pictures in the bed, waking up and racing down the stairs trying to

catch my breakfast

Was so simple, superman, trick or treat, wet socks

Bike rides in the summer to the best spots

Could’ve sworn I was king with the best odds

Running 'round with the dogs in the backyard

Growing, never knowing what the past done

Living life like the mystery of packed lunch

Getting whooped in the playground, scratched up

Coming home after school on the last bus

Back then it was all about laughs

Hit the corner store for the new Fleer packs

Mom was a religion and happiness was a fact

It’s a shame how the time goes past

Moving so fast

It’s like I’m moving at light speed

Slow Down

You need to slow down every once in a while, sometimes

To see how the world goes round

You need to slow down every once in a while

Cause you don’t know, you don’t know

You don’t need to go so fast

Things changed and the pops job got an offer

Packed up moved out down to Colorado

Sunshine, clean air, not a lot of problems

That’s when I discovered Pogs and Tamagochi

Time passed and the friends found punk, yeah

Or whatever man, a lot of it was junk, but we loved it

Made us feel cool, little dumb kids, running 'round just for fun doing dumb shit

I was lighting all my candles at both ends

Warren Lake getting drunk with the friends

I was trying to stay positive, even though I pretended it helped,

cause back home I was lacking a happy ending for all

Saw a lot of tall trees fall in the name of an addiction

My sister taught me to follow

I cracked, cleaned up and the bags packed, and swore that I would never go back

Moving so fast

19 I decided I was done with it

Hit Seattle with a head full of drum rhythms

Falling in and out of love with these young women

Thinking they can make a change in the blood given

Nah, I was too young to face it

Working two jobs still thinking I could make it

Local all-star still singing from his basement

Finally got a shot and I’ve been working every day since

Found love in the city where the Angels fly

Put a record out with Joshua, and made our climb

Came home after two years playing our rhymes

Just to find my little Angel was no more mine

Parted ways with a friend, it was not easy

Made a leap to the future and got queasy

Started working on the things that had lost reason

Now I’m sitting with a pad, moving so fast…