[ Featuring hothead the bard ]
Don't wanna let go
I was fiendin' for the old days from the get-go
On the living room rug building Legos
Once was a young love now an echo
Don't wanna let go of
(Like it was... how it used to be)
How it used to be
Don't wanna let go (like it was... how it used to be)
How it used to be
Yeah, how it used to be
Yeah, it wasn't just me
'Fore the hardware store and The Manickin beats
Tag along with my mom mobbin' in the backseat
With my dog on the lawn 'fore we put down Lexie
Yeah it goes so fast
Way before you know you slip into the past
Didn't know how much it hurt
Now I wish I could've asked
Told me I was too young and that's how it had to be
Back when shit was
(Like it was... how it used to be)
How it used to be
Back when shit was
(Like it was... how it used to be)
My mom
Was whippin' the teal BMW
Pick me up 5 PM after school
We searched for a show to watch on the tube
Spend so much time, me and Dad and you
Nowadays I feel the separation
Are we living good or just being patient?
Waiting to die while we here in Stow
Here in my solitude in this basement
Yeah, Mama I'm waiting, Mama I'm waiting
For my chance to get it and tell you I made it, and tell you I made it
Show you my earnings and show you it's worth it
To dream a lil' bit and life still has a purpose
I know things have changed, still love you the same
Pray you move forward and that you'll never wanna go
Back to the past
Just wanna get back the feeling I'm losing to
Like it was... how it used to be
I don't wanna go back to the past
Just wanna get back the feeling I'm losing to
Like it was... how it used to be
(Like it was... how it used to be)
(Like it was... how it used to be)
No things aren't how they were
When wasn't this hard to converse
When I got off at second bus stop
And played 'til my friends slept over
I didn't have thought 'bout this earth
Why would I? It was still a small world
I was trying to see how long I could stall while our moms were talking 'bout work
I feel ignorant
Child the exception, adulthood the rule
And I know that I hadn't hit it yet
Maybe what I'm missing is... feeling so into it
Feeling intuitive, time passing slower
Enough for a moment to feel like a moment
Not just a chance to think about futures instead
Guess I don't wanna go back to past
Just wanna get back the feeling I'm losing to
(Like it was... how it used to be)
Don't wanna go back to past
Just wanna get back the feeling I'm losing to
Like it was... how it used to be
How it used to be
How it used to be
