The song expresses feelings of stress and insecurity. It reminisces about happier childhood days spent playing pretend and dreaming of space. Now, the singer feels pressured to make money and cares too much about what others think. The song wishes they could turn back time to simpler days when their mother sang them to sleep.
The song expresses feelings of stress and insecurity. It reminisces about happier childhood days spent playing pretend and dreaming of space. Now, the singer feels pressured to make money and cares too much about what others think. The song wishes they could turn back time to simpler days when their mother sang them to sleep.
The song expresses feelings of stress and insecurity. It reminisces about happier childhood days spent playing pretend and dreaming of space. Now, the singer feels pressured to make money and cares too much about what others think. The song wishes they could turn back time to simpler days when their mother sang them to sleep.
The song expresses feelings of stress and insecurity. It reminisces about happier childhood days spent playing pretend and dreaming of space. Now, the singer feels pressured to make money and cares too much about what others think. The song wishes they could turn back time to simpler days when their mother sang them to sleep.
To the good old days When our momma sang us to sleep I wish I found some better ______ But now we're stressed out No one's ever heard I wish I had _______ Used to play pretend That sang some better words Give each other different names We would build a rocket ship and then we'd fly I wish I found some chords it far away In an order that is new Used to dream of outer space I wish I didn't have to rhyme But now they're laughing at our face singing Every time I sang "Wake up, you need to make money", yeah I was told when I get older All my fears would shrink Used to play pretend Give each other different names But now I'm insecure We would build a rocket ship And I care what people think And then we'd fly it far away My name's Blurryface and I care what you think Used to dream of outer space My name's Blurryface and I care what you think But now they're laughing at our face singing Wish we could turn back time "Wake up, you need to make money", yeah To the good old days Wish we could turn back time When our momma sang us to sleep To the good old days But now we're stressed out When our momma sang us to sleep Wish we could turn back time But now we're stressed out To the good old days Wish we could turn back time When our momma sang us to sleep To the good old days But now we're stressed out When our momma sang us to sleep We're stressed out But now we're stressed out Sometimes a certain smell will We used to play pretend, used to play pretend, Take me back to __________ money How come I'm never able to identify We used to play pretend, wake up you need Where it's coming from? the money I'd make ___________ Used to play pretend, used to play pretend, If I ever found it money We used to play pretend, wake up you need Try to sell it, never sell out of it the money I'd probably __________ It'd be to my brother, cause we have the same Used to play pretend nose Give each other different names Same clothes, home grown We would build a rocket ship The stone's throw _______we used to roam And then we'd fly it far away Used to dream of outer space But it would remind us of when But now they're laughing at our face saying Nothing really mattered "Wake up, you need to make money", yeah Out of student loans and tree house homes We all would take the latter My name's Blurryface and I care what you think Only sell one - a candle out of it - a better My name's Blurryface and I care what you think voice - Sounds - when I was young - from a Wish we could turn back time creek To the good old days When our momma sang us to sleep