i was walking down the street looking at my feet i didn t have no shoes on the way to school looking like a fool and everybody knew but it was all right cause my friends of mine knew i had a guitar they knew i would play become a big star and i would go so far remember the times when i didn t have a dime we remember the times when i didn t have a dime those were the best days going down the street playing at the mall on them cheap bikes looking for somebody to steal somebody to rob and somebody to fight i didn t know my name as well as i knew my friends but i knew we were so cool but everybody wanted to play by their own rules we didn t go to school i remember the times when i didn t have a dime i remember the times when i didn t have a dime those were the best days  by the time i was fourteen or fifteen trying to pass my driver s test the thing to do was to drive to school cause i could never win for best dressed i drove a raggedy car to sneak in the bars young boy life has no stress watching cartoon and popping balloons that was the best remember the times when i didn t have a dime i remember the times when i didn t have a dime those were the best days yeah i was in junior high school 35 and um i think it was 82 or 83 and everyone was wearing these nikes you know the ones with the little suede lip on the front and the canvas it wasn t canvas like nylon the swoosh or whatever i told my mom i wanted those so we went down to modell s heh she saw the price she was like well we could get two of them other little cheap things for the same price as those man i remember that