1997 Lyrics

[Hook]:
And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below


[Verse Three]:
The year was 1997 I was 12 or 11
Time is ticking, I feel different while I'm wishing I was 7
My life is steady wasting
All my friends already changing
While I wanna play my video games on my brand new PlayStation
On Saturday's I'm up at noon
Missed all my favorite cartoons

Your friends, no longer call you
And everything is harmful
So we, just made a dug out
Where all of us just hung out
It's called the Flyboy Club House
Where we chill and just go bug out

Cause we

[Hook]:
And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around

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Off of XV’s mixtape, A Square in the Circle, reflecting on his childhood playing video games, swimming, and just having fun as a kid growing up in the 90s.

Loosely themed around the 90s classic movie, The Sandlot, which provides the video for the song shown above.

Samples the Smashing Pumpkins' “1979”

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Release Date
July 8, 2008
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