Summer Breeze

Now even though I was only a young buck, I was still trying to kick it

Having a hang of fun and much too young to be wicked

'Cause when I was thirteen, you  know, we didn't have cars

It was either, double ride the peg nuts or hop on the handle bars

And then we went and bought a gang of balloons

And had a water balloon fight that lasted until the night

Then after that we played some Hide and Go Get It

With the neighborhood homegirls dumb enough to be with it

All in fun and games and keepin' it cool

But my, my, when you're kickin' it, time flies by

'Cause every hour's a minute and every minute's a sec

And if I came home late, my moms would ring my neck, yeah

But I regret not them whoopings I got

'Cause to be able to play the next day was okay

On a mission to hit up the neighbor's fruit trees

Just a bunch of kids chillin', enjoyin' the summer breeze

Summer breeze, flowing like the wind

Boy, you need to know that you got a friend

And I'll always be here

(I'll always be here)

Summer breeze, flowing like the wind

Boy, you need to know that you got a friend

And I'll always be here

(I'll always be here for you)

Now I'm growing some fuzz, gettin' older like seventeen or eighteen

And the only thing I know is to stay clean

T-shirt, short pants, Nikes on spotless

I was even old enough to buy me a Cutlass

Or a vehicle to ride around town, flight with the hoes and

Roll down the window and mack to the one who's chosen

Yo, them biker pants look kinda right on you

My name is DJ Quik and my homies is having a barbecue

Before I finish my whole sentence complete

Yo, she was off the bus stop and in my passenger seat

And we was slide to the Westside, stopped at the store

To get some Boones Farm because that make 'em kick it a little more

And at the spot, you know that chicken was kickin'

The pig on the grill and so the day was chill

But that night, my girl was tipsy and was ready to skeeze

But I didn't even trip, too busy jocking the summer breeze

Summer breeze, flowing like the wind

Boy, you need to know that you got a friend

And I'll always be here

(I'll always be here for you)

Summer breeze, flowing like the wind

Boy, you need to know that you got a friend

And I'll always be here

(I'll always be here for you)

Now, I'm twenty-three and I remember the times when

We was chillin' like villains and didn't have no nines

Like when we used to mod to beaches to kick it and swim

Now, I hang around and watch the tides come in

And I'm thinkin' how many funerals I've been to

Watching all my homies get buried in them boxes they put 'em into

And then I read a letter from upstates

From my homie G-Wayne, who's been locked up since '87, '88

And it really ain't nothin' fly about it

So, either I'ma stay strong or break down and simply cry about it

And when it seems like things just ain't gon' be right

I gotta thank my creator for lettin' sleep last night

And wakin' me up in the morning because I shudder to think

That that could be me dead or locked away in the clink

So I'm liftin' my homie's spirits as tall as the trees

And I can even hear him callin' me in the summer breeze

Summer breeze, flowing like the wind

Boy, you need to know that you got a friend

And I'll always be here

(I'll always be here, never leave you)

Summer breeze, flowing like the wind

Boy, you need to know that you got a friend

And I'll always be here

(Summer breeze)

Summer breeze, flowing like the wind

Boy, you need to know that you got a friend

And I'll always be here

Summer breeze, flowing like the wind

Boy, you need to know that you got a friend

And I'll always be here

(I'll never leave)

(Summer breeze)

Summer breeze, flowing like the wind

Boy, you need to know that you got a friend

And I'll always be here

Summer breeze, flowing like the wind

Boy, you need to know that you got a friend

And I'll always be here

Summer breeze, flowing like the wind

Boy, you need to know that you got a friend

And I'll always be here

Summer breeze, flowing like the wind

Boy, you need to know that you got a friend

And I'll always be here

Summer breeze