Used To

[Verse 1]

I used to want everything, all of it, y'all don't even know

There's somethin' in the morals of the stories I was told

I might've got stuck in the storms or the snow

But I never got stabbed with a fork in the road

I used to decorate my childhood with permanent markers

I used to draw my cartoons on the cardboard

Break dance in the front yard where we lived on the corner

People used to honk their horns

I used to scratch records tryin' to hear some hidden messages

But now it seems like I couldn't care less for it

But is the heart half full or half emptiness?

Everybody died penniless

I used to be a skeptic pluggin' up the pockets

All I ever wanted was a little acknowledgment

But now I'm tryin' to honor myself and put trust in the process

As if it wasn't obvious, I haven't got a lot of options

[Verse 2]

I was so mixed up in it

They told me that I could be the difference

The evening sky ain't above my wishes

But I'm still satisfied to go a mile a minute, come on

I used to drive around my side of the town

Turnt up with the windows down

I came from a school of movin' around

And when I do it now, I still play my music loud, come on

[Chorus]

Man, y'all don't even know

I used to, I used to, I used to, used to, used to

[Verse 3]

I used to think makin' money was the answer

I don't wanna struggle like my mom and dad had to

I'm tryin' to stagger as much as I could possibly gather

But it won't protect us from

I used to believe in happily ever after

Like anything less would've been a disaster

It's another distraction to keep me from asking you

To open the book to look past the last chapter

I used to travel faster than the speed of laughter

Tryin' to catch a Blondie with my rapture

All factor, rusty dagger

Wrapped up in a plain old cellophane wrapper

I used to move like the government tracked ya

But now I move like I drive an old tractor

I wanna keep the future on my calendar

Alive right now 'cause the used to doesn't matter anymore

[Outro]

It never did

None of it matters, it never did

It never didn't