Lyrics:

I was just a little girl (Little girl)
Skinny legs, a press and curl (Press and curl)
My mother always thought I'd be a star (My mom always thought I'd be a star)
But way before the record deals
Streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill (Uh-huh)
Made sure that I'd never go too far (Oh wah, oh wah, yo)

Every ghetto, every city
And suburban place I been
Make me recall my days, in New Jerusalem (You know, uh-huh)

Story starts in Hootaville (Hootaville)
Grew up next to Ivy Hill
When kids were stealing quartervilles for fun
'Kill the Guy' in Carter Park (Uh)
Rode a Mongoose 'til it's dark
Watching kids show off the stolen ones

Every ghetto (Every ghetto), every city (Every city)
And suburban place I been (And suburban place I been)
Make me recall my days, in the New Jerusalem (Oh woah, oh, yo)

You know it's hot (You know it's hot), don't forget, what you got
Looking back... (Looking back) looking back, looking back, looking back
You know it's hot, don't forget, what you got
Looking back... looking back, looking back, looking back

Bag of Bontons, twenty cents and a nickel (Well, that's a quarter)
Springfield Ave. had the best popsicles
Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-Fu (Wuh-TAH!)
Main street roots tonic with the dreads
A beef patty and some coco bread
Move the patch from my Lee's to the tongue of my shoes (Uh-uh, uh-uh-uh)
'Member, Freling-Huysen used to have the bomb leather
Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick was together
Looking at the crew, we thought we'd all live forever, yeah

You know it's hot (You know it's hot), don't forget, what you got (You know it's hot)
Looking back... (Looking back) looking back, looking back, looking back
You know it's hot (Uh, you know it's hot), don't forget, what you got (You know it's hot)
Looking back... (Looking back) looking back, looking back, looking back

Drill teams on Munn street
'Member when Hawthorne and Chancellor had beef (Yo)
Moving Records was on Central Ave
I was there at dancing school (Uh-huh)
South Orange Ave. at Borlin pool
Unaware of what we didn't have
Writing my friends' names on my jeans with a marker
July 4th races outside Parker
Fireworks at Martin Stadium (Uh, uh-uh-uh, uh-uh-uh)
The Untouchable P.S.P. (S.P.)
Where all them crazy niggas be
And car thieves got away through Irvington (Skrrrt, lock it up, uh, uh)
Hillside brings beef with the cops
Self Destruction record drops
And everybody's name was Muslim (Children playing, women producing)
Sensations and eighty-eight
Attracted kids from out of state (Uh-uh, uh-uh)
And everybody used to do the wop (Wop it out, wop it out, wop it out)
Jack ya, jack ya, jack ya body
Nah, the BizMark used to amp up the party
I wish those days, they didn't stop (I wish those days didn't stop)

Every ghetto (Every ghetto), every city
And suburban place I been (And suburban place I been)
(Every ghetto) Make me recall my days, in New Jerusalem (Every city)

You know it's hot (You know it's hot), don't forget, what you got
Looking back... (Looking back) looking back, looking back, looking back
You know it's hot, don't forget, what you got (You know it's hot)
Looking back... looking back, looking back, looking back (Looking back)
You know it's hot, don't forget, what you got (You know it's hot)
Looking back... looking back, looking back, looking back (Looking back)

Looking back, looking back, looking back
Looking back, looking back, looking back (Looking back)
Looking back (Looking back, looking back, looking back), looking back, looking back
Looking back, looking back (Looking back), looking back
Looking back, looking back, looking back

What do you think about love? Come on
Ok, Laurence
Love...
Don't laugh, yo!
Yo, he's 'bout to give us a dissertation, the way he said that
Go ahead, breakdown, breakdown
Well, love is just a feeling
Love is a feeling, it's like, it's just when you like somebody and you're gonna fall in love with them
Ok
And you just hope they feel the same way like you do towards them
Ok, ok
This gettin' a lil' deep