Back In The Day

I guess I grew up fast in Chi town

School out, clean up, homework, lights out

Momma was strict about them kids runnin' in and out

Street lights, meant you better be in that house

Oh, oh, oh, back in the day

Put me in the bed when it's light outside, when it is light outside

Oh, oh, oh, back in the day

Put me in the bed when it's light outside

Missing the funk of the night

They played some really good sounds

Cleaning up on Saturday

From Carmen to Charlie Bird to Aretha

We all sang

Those very sounds floating in and outta my head

Created the magic that sealed my fate

Oh, oh, oh, back in the day

Put me in the bed when it's light outside (when it's light outside)

Oh, oh, oh, back in the day

Put me in the bed when it's light outside

Missing the funk of the night (in good times)

Had to run away from home

Had to have my way

Just what I was running from

Don't know to this day

Can't say I have everything

I thought it would be

I got memories

Ooh, oh, back in the day with a good time

Oh, spending my life with a good time

Do you remember?

Spending my life with a good time, bebebe bebebebe

Ooh, when Auntie Cathy

Played them funky sounds

That's when I knew my true love I'd found (my real love)

Oh, oh, oh, back in the day

Put me in the bed when it's light outside (when it's light outside)

Oh, oh, oh, back in the day

Put me in the bed when it's light outside

Missing the funk of the night (yeah, yeah)

Oh, oh, oh, back in the day

Put me in the bed when it's light outside (when it's light outside)

Oh, oh, oh, back in the day

Put me in the bed when it's light outside

Missing the funk of the night

Oh, oh, oh, oh (back in the day)

Put me in the bed when it's light outside (when it's light outside)

Oh, oh, oh, oh, back in the day (back in the day)

Put me in the bed when it's light outside

Missing the funk of the night

Ooh, ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah

Back in the day

Don't you wanna go back?

What if I...?