Back In The Day

Back before the pound sign became a hash tag
     and I Phones, before Mac Books, and Facebook
     before music went digital and there was 800 channels on TV
Yes back when you had to rewind the answering machine to
     listen to your messages and page your dude to get a bag
     of weed,
Back before electronic cigarettes and GPS navigation systems,
     before LOL, EDM, BRB, LMFAO and other dumb ass
     abbreviations abbreviated your ability to think!
Yes back when gas was 89 cents a gallon and Clinton was
     getting his dick sucked by Monica Lewinsky,
Yes back when MS-DOS was your operating system and
     Transformers was a cartoon, back when there were pay
     phones in front of every store instead of Red Box -
Yes back before any one knew Obama even existed,
     before they gentrified Harlem, Asbury Park, Fort Greene,
     before reality TV, openly rigged elections, global warming
     and tweets
Yes back when big screen TV's weren't flat but big and round
     and fat in the back
Yes back before social media destroyed a generations soul
     and social skill, back before i had bills, back before technology
     killed the art of face to face conversation, and that feeling of
     waiting to speak for weeks until we actually meet again and see
each other, in the real physical flesh form,
back before texting mid conversation was the norm
Yes, a simpler time not so far away
Today's got me wishin
It was back in the day...