Childhood Dreams (feat. J Keyz, Blksnrsng & Manny Voices)
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My fascination with things when I was younger Curiosity blossomed, still moving with caution Exploring my options Who you wanna be? Watchu wanna do Tell me what's your dreams, what you got to prove Ain't got nothing to lose Childhood ways they never go away, really they just fade You lose a little bit of passion as you grow through every stage You get complicit, and got responsibilities now But lemme bout the dreams I used to have as a child I used to wanna be a chef so I could cook up I fell in love with the smells that was coming out the kitchen I wanted restaurants and good eating I had a vision Only thing I ever hated bout food was doing the dishes I used to wanna be a star and my favorite artist was Micheal Watched every music video, I used to moonwalked just like him My first idol, used to want his music on vinyl The day he died I cried and I'm almost still in denial I used to wanna be an astronaut And see moon rocks But now I'm smoking moon rock and while I'm bumping Tupac Smoking my dreams away as I continue to age Parents tell me don't get distracted focus on getting paid Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore And somedays I sit and wish that I could dream again These days ain't no time for dreams These days only focused on the bigger things Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore Back in the days I used to dream but I don't dream anymore, anymore anymore They say everything that glitter ain't gold Nothing's really what it seems Time seems evergreen until you get old Until you get told, you gotta sacrifice 9 hours of your life everyday just to make a way Just to barely make it by Cuz we all tryna survive While you making a living, inside you just whither and die All that depression and anxiety, society convince us we can't live until retirement Or just enjoy the finer things Unless you stack a lot of them digits Finding out the true killer of joy is capitalism Oh was that too deep? Just let me know, I ain't the shallow type All these potent flows I write's how I expose my life My broken soul's a prototype For niggas who had dreams and still haven't achieved em Don't let ways of the world be what stops you from still believing Lot of you grieving, the flame that's inside, you let die And watched the world take your soul, I can see it inside your eyes Just Like a raisin in the sun, dreams get deferred When you got bills to pay and gotta raise a son Just hoping he safe enough so cops don't rush to raise a gun When his living has just begun They love treating us like we dumb Kill ambition right when you young Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore And somedays I sit and wish that I could dream again These days ain't no time for dreams These days only focused on the bigger things Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore Back in the days I used to dream but I don't dream anymore, anymore anymore I remember marching to activist rhythms In class fathoming wisdom of Pan-Afrikanism Listen, while I'm reminiscing, come take a ride with me Back to San Antonio, Texas, the countdown city Since I was 5, I dreamed in 4k, three colors Red black green, too vivid, one question why Do we suffer Asking my mother as a youngin, how we need to function Snaggletooth in dinosaur pajamas having deep discussions I wish back then I understood the repercussions Of muting your deepest hungers til they gotta be rediscovered At that pecan tree I'm sitting under My mind was free to wander To inner visions of a higher ground Stevie Wonder Dreaming of freedom's all I did, my head in outer space I got older, kitchen hotter, world colder, yeah that's climate change These pressures and stressors somebody tell me how to face em The weight of the world, I'm swapping em out, doubt and faith Taking definite action, not settling for decimals, fractions Or collapsing after unexpected Reactions I'm accepting what happens, treating myself with compassion Learning the lessons, then Manifesting the magic I'm searching to find where passion and purpose and talents align I'm working to heal imbalance that lurks in the back of my mind I'm hurting to feel the magic I had as a fabulous child Cuz all of these excellent habits I haven't had in a while (Slow it down) Showing self-respect by taking focused steps (Let's go, what's next) All the fears that pose a threat, go lay dem hoes to rest Get your soul correct and go collect all of the gold that's left And do the work so dreams and reality start to coalesce Remember when it was so simple then When you would get to grinning when You play the childhood games And you fantasize bout winnin' them And limitin' your ceiling was like synonym For sinnin' and the image in your mind Was sweet like M&Ms, I'm finding That my irises ain't image'n Horizons Can't envision em While risin' through the tenements Of life with such diligence I'm writin' for the villages That raised me like some chill'un And embracing all my dreams And making vows to never kill 'em It's wild that a childlike way of livin' Is the vision I smile Cuz these trials Might be the reason why I listen To that inner child That beckons for attention all the time So I saw fit to put him in a rhyme Wow Life is funny like that, ya know Today it's barbies and Tonka trucks and tomorrow it's bills and Well, more bills Enough to kill my soul if I let it But I'll never stop dreaming I'll keep feeding and nurturing that inner child, that dreamer That person who once thought they could be anyone they wished Cuz the truth is, little me probably couldn't wait to get to where I am right now Young'un would be proud of me So I cherish that. I am that child still Armed with experience and resources to make my dreams REAL Every day I'm going to be the version of me that I hoped for Dreamed for, that I imagined I'd become… back... in… the day Yeah Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore And somedays I sit and wish that I could dream again These days ain't no time for dreams These days only focused on the bigger things Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore Back in the days I used to dream but I don't dream anymore, anymore anymore
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Written by: Conner Little, Emmanuel Little, Fidelis Folifac, Khari Kisile
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