Dual Core - College Days lyrics

My college days had a lot of rage on the page
Anxiety was commonplace
Nervous just to rock a stage
Couldn’t even concentrate
Wasn’t making honor grades
Bit off more than chewable and
Put another on my plate
Life full in front of me, but stop and wait
Contemplate
Neither felt like options for the
Way that I would operate
A tireless pursuit ‘cause I want
A place among the greats
Started rocking parties giving all it
Takes I’m on the way
Living room fists pumping
Hit's bumping out the system
Record spinning, DJ cutting mixing
Feel the rhythm inspired finding freedom
Need delivered from this prison
The vibe was so alive definition of us living


Cook a verse, put in work
With a preface to my ethic
I’m only giving substance you can
Find in every message
Tireless in effort spitting cadence
'til I’m breathless
Every moment precious, check it
Energy infectious

We take it back, we take it back
We take it back to the good old days
We take it back, we take it back
We take it back to the good old days
We bring it back, we bring it back
We bring it back like the good old days
We bring it back, we bring it back
We bring it back like the good old days

You ever had the feeling you won’t
Make it up the mountain?
Watching stress pile up
Continuous compounding
Rat racing, back breaking
Life is such a killer
Underpaid and overworked
The story so familiar
Forty hour student plus this
Call center overtime had to toe the line
But my growing strides were
Stepping up to coincide
Open wide, stretching whole divides
For the moment when the flow
Aligns, roll the dice, i know it’s time
Debt possessor pressing just to
Meet a monthly quota
Hit the books for credit
Steady seeking this diploma
Barely rolling day to day
While idling my motor
Inching closer to the precipice
Without it going over
Journalling my consequence
All indents are common sense
Letters to the editor
I’m saving all the documents
Easing up the burden
Current burning through the conduit
Music making balance paying homage
To the monument

We take it back, we take it back
We take it back to the good old days
We take it back, we take it back
We take it back to the good old days
We bring it back, we bring it back
We bring it back like the good old days
We bring it back, we bring it back
We bring it back like the good old days

Still enrolled so my syllables
Are higher learning fire burning
Pushing got me writing in a fury
Bracing feeling tighter every time
The wire turning
Eternally discerning destination or
The journey treadmill extended had me
Disobeying loiter signs
Dreams pacing out the clock
Pray there’s no destroying mine
Toiled 'til it’s endless so my
Seeds had probably soiled fine
Expected just to walk off
Stage to unemployment lines
Feels like it was yesterday
Such a clairvoyant time
Annoying and avoiding the entitlement
Of royal minds
Blood raising to a boil nearly
Went and spoiled mine
Shooting to the top like
These Tesla coil climbs
Bigger stage, still I’m in a rage
Ain’t no way to heal it
Emotions are conveyed so now
Everybody feel it
Finally prevailed after years
Of fighting strong worried I’d forget
So I had to write this song

We take it back, we take it back
We take it back to the good old days
We take it back, we take it back
We take it back to the good old days
We bring it back, we bring it back
We bring it back like the good old days
We bring it back, we bring it back
We bring it back like the good old days