College Days

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, hits 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