​redveil, J-S.A.N.D. - USED TO BE lyrics

We're still the kids we used to be
We're still the kids we used to be

Yeah uh
Yeah
What would you say to your younger self?
Do you even think you would trust yourself?
Would you let him remake your
Past mistakes or would
You speak up and be one to help?
What kind of advice would you give?
How would you improve the life that you live?
Would you let him live your life is it?
How would you inspire the kid?
I would tell myself to pray for discernments
It's you bless every day to be learning
I know it may feel like you getting nowhere
But I promise you gotta have
Faith in the journey you better hope in some
Water that's floating
Up under them bridges you burning
Never accept any handouts, stand out
'cause shit hit different when you earn
I wish that I was omnipotent
So I could sense the
Shit that I was missing when I was a kid
I feel like innocence
I lost my innocence ever since life
Came and did what it did
Too many instances I wasn't listening
I was too busy getting into shit
But life is infamous for taking
Niggas and flipping them
Showing them they don't know shit
We are not born with know-how
We figure it out as we go now
They start making sense cause I'm grown now
I wish I knew then what I know now
The way that our traumas
Influence the way that
We look at the world is so wild
I know I may look like a pro now
But deep down inside I'm a whole child
'Cause I'm still

We're still the kids we used to be
We're still the kids we used to be i still
We still he still
She still they still
We still he still
She still

Yeah i'm still the nigga I always was
Something I'ma always love
Drums, copacetic, aesthetic ain't number one
Nigga, I don't fit in like that bloody glove
Unless I'm with 40 doves, look
I'm in the sky tryna look at my limit
But but these lightyears hitting 40 plus
Tell 'em what's up, it's stuck
I keep it a buck still hit the scene and
And they can get their lil hands on the stick
What matters is what you gonna
Do with the puck
I look at running consumerism
Trying to creep
I'm telling it to get the fuck
I only know that they were what I'm giving
I can't go to penance for them
I look out for my cuts
And all these decisions looking for an answer
Selling me growth I'm looking for the cancer
The pigmentation can't afford any chances
Head on the swivel it will be dancin'
I hit my blood line on the road
Passin' the wisdom, wishin' they was
Two different areas but the same
And I'm twisting the lock
Kicking down the door
Pick up the vultures leave them in the cold
My culture the only thing these niggas know
When they come around I'm
Switching up the code
'Cause I'ma be dead if they couldn't know
I sent up dead niggas ain't showed up
Loving your head I know it's all for show
I sent up dead niggas ain't shown yeah

We're still the kids we used to be
We're still the kids we used to be i still
We still he still
She still they still
We still he still
She still
We're still the kids we used to be
We're still the kids we used to be i still
We still he still
She still they still
She still he still
We still