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I've been on the blacktop, steady throwing elbows
Ever since I was in corduroys and velcros
Ever since you did your impression of Melrose Pace
A giggling gaggle of Tickle Me Elmos
I ate some Wheaties and graduated to shell toes
Running from a bully, man I'm thinking Heck no.
Chain me to a tree, I'm waiting for the bulldozer
You never would've seen me skate away if Hell froze
May not be bigger, but you're never gonna pick on me
You're Cedric Diggory, I'm Nicholas Nickelby
You better pick a team, there's no in between
You want a nicklebag? You want some nicotine?
You wanted a fix, I will never be your goldmine
Taking my kicks and I'm hanging them over the phone line
So you can find me, posted, feeling so fine
At Buena Vista elementary in second grade
One whistle is when recess ends
Two whistles is an earthquake drill
Three means every kid better hit the deck
Unless you want to catch a stray bullet
Or a ricochet from a fight across the chainlink fence
I know that I don't look it but I grew up in the middle of a city where only the quick make friends.
A kid in Frisco, navigating Lombard
No On Star, I'm on BART
No lawn darts, not saying I'm hard
But I got street val for my Pokemon cards
Better put me onto Pawn Stars
And I'll barter like my grandma when she wants art
Every block or two I skate around another beggar
Leaning on a cop car, baked as a Pop Tart