Mac Miller - Back In The Day lyrics

Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughin' at 'em like, "Ha ha ha"
'Cause, I'ma be okay
Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughin' at 'em like, "Ha ha ha"
'Cause, I'ma be okay

I used to have a dream
Now it seem that I'ma live it in real life
Gettin' free jeans, good weed
Feelin' real nice used to think that I was
Too short or too dumb just a newcomer to the
Game tryna do somethin'
Used to runnin' after ice cream trucks
But now I just stroll, lacе my Nikes up
I'm a nice, clean cut
Good lookin' individual
Fillin' up a notebook with rhymes when
I be in the school
Learn quick that nobody here invincible
We feel big, but in reality, we minuscule
Try and make a million bucks
Before I reach my pinnacle
Supernova status from basically invisible
Growin' up thinkin' it was cool
To be a criminal
Until I saw a couple homies go down
See, now that isn't me or
Anything I'm finna be
I want the money, cars, hoes, clothes
A kid can dream i used to talk to girls
That wasn't even into me
Now they hit me up wantin' intimacy
But nah, I got a girl and she down for me
My little Juliet chillin' on the balcony
If I need it
She gon' run a hundred miles for me
Love me for me, not who I'm 'bout to be
And if they didn't believe
Then I can do without 'em
'Cause at the end of the day I'm just Malcolm

Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughin' at 'em like, "Ha ha ha"
'Cause, I'ma be okay
Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughin' at 'em like, "Ha ha ha"
(yeah) 'Cause, I'ma be okay (Hey, hey)

Just a little snotty nose tryna
Find his pot of gold
Stayin' up late on the phone
Always callin' hoes never thought I'd blow
No one took me serious
Now they see me walkin' down
The street like, "Oh, there he is"
As a kid, anything was possible
But mama knows the hottest flow don't
Put me on the honor roll
Grades started slippin'
The classes I be skippin'
Tried to tell me that I was
A fool, I wouldn't listen, no
As a youngin' I was playin' pretend
My wonder years
Never woulda thought they could end
Back, back in my glory days
Way before the haze
A good night sleep had me
Energized for the day
When I would look up at
The planets in they orbit
Before this life got distorted
Before the money was a plan
Before I ever thought that I would
Need to be a man
Somethin' like a Peter Pan, nah
I ain't tryna grow up
'Cause bein' old sucks, I just wanna go nuts
Before I drank a beer or ever
Took a hit of weed when entertainment was my
Mom's readin' mysteries
Takin' you back to them nursery rhymes
When I thought the world just
Deserved to be mine said I'm takin' you back
To them nursery rhymes
Back to the beginning
Put the verse in rewind

Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughin' at 'em like, "Ha ha ha"
'Cause, I'ma be okay
Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughin' at 'em like, "Ha ha ha"
'Cause, I'ma be okay

Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughin' at 'em like, "Ha ha ha"
I'm laughin' at 'em like, "Ha ha ha"

Haha, yeah so this goes out to
Any of y'all, haha
That ain't tryna get old, haha