Memories lyrics

Fruit flies swarm around the picnic that mama made

Attracted to the sweetness of the pies, taste of marmalade

Chocked with goodness, ice-cream is melted I'm afraid

We accept the bad with good times, memories to fade

Fruit flies swarm around the picnic that mama made

Attracted to the sweetness of the pies, taste of marmalade

Chocked with goodness, ice-cream is melted I'm afraid

We accept the bad with good times, memories to fade

I remember licking cake batter spoons, making tents in the rooms

Playing with my cousins underneath the full Georgia moon

Keen advice from Cousin Davy, kept my faith tight

And Wavies Curl bag that holds every dew rags

And pork and beans, potted meat and saltines

Grilled cheese and pig feed, bullet grapes and palm trees

Sweetness of my memories

My daddy had a '98, yellow like banana peels

Whitewalls and custom wheels, pillows in the window sills

They called my granddaddy "Razor", he was cold-witted

He hit the hooch, you made him mad and you was gone feel it

Miss Flaws sat next to my grandma, and the backbone

And an angel in disguise took the chord of family ties

Fruit flies swarm around the picnic that mama made

Attracted to the sweetness of the pies, taste of marmalade

Chocked with goodness, ice-cream is melted I'm afraid

We accept the bad with good times, memories to fade

Fruit flies swarm around the picnic that mama made

Attracted to the sweetness of the pies, taste of marmalade

Chocked with goodness, ice-cream is melted I'm afraid

We accept the bad with good times, memories to fade

Blessed with the gift of gab

Holding potential's essential to pinch you

Convince you that we got the strength to lift the slab

We ain't just a shifting fad, jonesing for whatever ops should come our way

Recover from the losses, cautious, I'm okay

Take my breath away, take it to immeasurable heights

Scoping through my point of view, take a picture through my sights

Pray that Im-a rap it right

Rep it, overstepping boundaries

Guessing lessons, natural progressions

Hoping they don't clown me

Chatter join the memory bliss, spotted in the corner, plotting

Any coffeehouse in town is going down

I shag it rotten, gang up or keeping options

Symphonies that might hip-opera

By thirty mix states, I'm thumbing through my brain synapses

Recall the gall that made me stumble, fall for gain

Some of y'all forced the stall

Falls and master walls, now here we are

Mama's teaching standing strong

Daddy's discipline is out the window

Daddy's presence wasn't felt, so I knelt within the in...

Fruit flies swarm around the picnic that mama made

Attracted to the sweetness of the pies, taste of marmalade

Chocked with goodness, ice-cream is melted I'm afraid

We accept the bad with good times, memories to fade

Flies swarm around the picnic that mama made

Attracted to the sweetness of the pies, taste of marmalade

Chocked with goodness, ice-cream is melted I'm afraid

We accept the bad with good times, memories to fade

• Artist:GRITS
• Album:Redemption (2003)