Baseball Cap

Oh, smack, there goes my baseball cap I'm on the floor

I think I took a bruise to my jaw

Jumped me from behind at least three, maybe four

I never see my hat no more

Oh, smash. there goes my baseball cap

It's gone, gone, gone, gone

I can't get it back

Oh, smash, there goes my baseball cap

It's gone, gone, gone, gone

I can't get it back

Fourteen years old and hard to the core

I'm walking home making plans for war

My hands was cut, my uncle says, "What's up?

Let me guess, your clothes are in a mess, you're in distress

Sit down, take five and let me look at your knees

Your still alive son, please take it easy"

"Sometimes you have to let the world know you're not bluffing

But enough is enough, don't loose your life over nothing

Scuffling in the street is no way to die

And I don't want to have to meet your Mama's eye

So try and listen hard before you fall into the trap

Of making war over a baseball cap"

Oh, smash, there goes my baseball cap

It's gone, gone, gone, gone

I can't get it back

Oh, smash, there goes my baseball cap

It's gone, gone, gone, gone

I can't get it back

I sat back, had a few uncle [incomprehensible] to drink

I had little cry, my eyes started to blink

'Cause what occurred from his words to me

Sounds absurd, but I had the love in his voice to me

I made choice, it was like snap

What's a cap when I got something real like that?

I can measure it, treasure it and have my leisure

Sit down with those who mean most to me

The baseball cap was a ghost, this real to me

‽You got steel son” my uncle's talking

"Take the champion to walk and keep walking

Drink your drink, let the words sink in

Say goodnight to your Ma and think again"

So I took my fourteen years up to bed

Everything he said taking root in my head

I said, ‽All my tears and let my fourteen years [incomprehensible]”

Oh, smash, there goes my baseball cap

It's gone, gone, gone, gone

I can't get it back

Oh, smash, there goes my baseball cap

It's gone, gone, gone, gone

I can't get it back

Oh, smash, there goes my baseball cap

It's gone, gone, gone, gone

I can't get it back

Oh, smash, there goes my baseball cap

It's gone, gone, gone, gone

I can't get it back