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The original by The Streets is a classic. I grew up listening to their music. The songs they created were unique and a different class.

This version of mine is very nostalgic. I look back at my experiences of the music scene back in the day

Buy the original Blinded By The Lights single by The Streets from iTunes.

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Lyrics

Verse 1

Won't forget my first 4 bars
Nuff respect to V.I.P who gave me a kickstart
Growing up I was thinking, some of these mc's yo their sick star!
Code Red Crew and Dirty Design at the time were apart of the best in the biz barse
I used to think, how do they do it like wow I wanna do it like them
So I picked up a pencil, scribbling it out now I'm doing it again
Way back when, back then, not even a phone not even a 3310
Straight basic, embraced it, just me and a pad and a pen

Verse 2

Year 8 I was writing 8's with the mates
I arrived with a back pack of bars at the back of the class, straight rhyming and rate
One anothers hard work, not enough time the bells gone say 'safe'
Meet at break, gonna go to the set at the end of the day can't wait...
Wait
2001 was a while back
Looking over the shoulder, seems way more than a mile back
Won't forget we broke in a shed for the sake of a set, bin a while lads
On our way to the set in the wind and the rain and even the cold snap. Oh snap

Verse 3

Bigging up my big cuz America
Had love for the scene, mad love for the peeps in the area
He was the light of the set, admiring the mics and the decks, I'm telling ya
He'd bring more to the vibe and the track was alight and he made it heavier, merrier
We were building a dream
Just some teens who were keen for the scene and we packed out halls and we made p's for Children in Need
In the hall, no seats just peeps who were feeling the beats
Moving their feet, yeah we bought something different, bought something new to the week

Verse 4

Recorded my first real tune with Caspa
Double C,C on the CD, gassed with the track, little anthem
Double act on the mic, thirsty for tunes yeah so we drank them
Then I watched him gong on leaps and bounds with the Flatline camp, with the man dem
16 and a bag of 16's
On the manor man are saying that's Cream
Can't forget I'm sweet like Cherry Cola that's me...me
Looking back now I'm older deep...neat

Verse 5

RTS was a big deal
We dropped 'We Are For Real' driving around doing gigs still
Rehearse for the stage, aim for the best make sure it's a sick bill
Bring the performance, energy, spit real
Looking back at the memories
Plenty of them and they fly by fast and they seem way back in the past like centuries
The events that I just took time to vent, I don't know where they went g
But it's cool, relive when I MC