A Bittersweet (Retrospective) - The Casual Brothers, Christian Kjellvander

It’s with bittersweet remembrance

I walked away from innocence

And now it seems so far away

We were climbing roofs on summer days

Picture this… the mid eighties

Up to no good kids, ready to get crazy

Big babies never wanted to grow up

It’s perfect like it is, ten years old’s enough

Didn’t know much about the world outside

But it was only a matter of time

'cause time run fast in every way

Fifteen years back seems like yesterday

When I rocked fat laces and copped my first LP

Wrote my first rhymes inspired by P. E

I couldn’t wait to bum rush the show

Ask my parents, they were first to know

They thought that I was gonna stick to rhymin'

Couldn’t believe their son was criminal minded

But all I ever wanted was my name on the wall

Sprayin' it all, who are you sayin' I’m wrong?

We had bad moments and good times

We move fast, no time to look twice

Days became weeks and weeks became months

Things around me changin' but I remain the same one

It’s with bittersweet remembrance

There’s laughter and there’s violence

It did not matter who was right

In the backseat on a summer night

Picture this: The mid nineties

When hip hop ruled everything around me

We formed Looptroop, did a couple of tapes

Sold the copies away in a couple of days

And when the night came we got busy

It was war with the cops here in Punk rock city

We used to get chased on the bikes

«Blåljus!

Äh, jag drar!»

Cus I ain’t facin' no trial

But two times they got me

So what, I got a fine, fine that couldn’t stop me

Me and Linus just laughed in court

After dark we’re goin' back of course

Years passed, they were runnin' away

Got new friends and lost some on the way

Time flies and it ain’t no way to hold it up

It’s that bittersweet feeling of growin' up

Day after day my heart just keep beatin'

That bittersweet feeling it come creepin'

I’m gettin' stressed out of life itself

No more, no less this is what I get

And with bittersweet remembrance

We walked around 'til it made sense

And though it seems so far away

The children here still sound the same