Watsky — How it Used to Be

Tell me how it used to How it used to How it used to be [Adam Vida] One time, a psychic had told me something 'bout my future life How I would live to be a hundred with my future wife Surrounded by my great grandchildren Reading the funnies and telling ‘em stories 'Bout how things were different in my 20’s, like: "Gather round, you two, shut off the TV I got a story, and maybe you youngins might not believe me But 80 years ago, the world wasn’t so kind, then Now it sounds silly but I remember a time when There was so many of us in love with one another And tried to show it but couldn’t 'cuz they wouldn’t let a pair of people Share a life together 'cuz they said it was evil and against the law But them laws wasn’t fair or equal People debated and shouted and demonstrated and spouted hatred Instead of trying to have a conversation about it But soon it led us to having celebrations about it Look at what my generation sprouted" (Marriage is legal!) Then the psychic took her small fee I thought about the way things were before me And how every generation gets a little more free I felt hope thinking how things could all be In eighty years I guess we gon' see when our grandkids saying to us [Chorus] Tell me how it used to be Cause we’ve come so far Tell me how it used to be Tell me how it used to How it used to How it used to be [Watsky] "Grandpa, is it true what they say? That way back in the day day You know? Like way back, like mad long That President Riff-Raff used to write rap songs? And I heard the people lit nicotine But they weren’t allowed their sweet, sweet sticky green And they let a kid be shipped to Iraq But they wouldn’t let him sip on a whiskey when he was back!" Yep, that’s back when life was a terminal illness Before that doctors learned that we came With a little switch every person turned in their brains When life was overwhelming and so we turned from the pain Back when slums grew in the shadows Of a 170 story chateaus And the people under ‘em fought For the crumbs that fell from the windows up at the top We claimed freedom but our elections were bought By a high-spitting executive, not a second of thought Back when corporations were people but people weren’t even people And people just weren’t connecting the dots [Chorus] Tell me how it used to be Cause we’ve come so far Tell me how it used to be Tell me how it used to How it used to How it used to be [Watsky] People would hate you over what spirit you prayed to You talk and they wouldn’t hear it They fear it and decapitate you And back in the states all we’re doing is just always say that they're doing Placing humans in boxes over what appearance they're near to [Adam Vida] I fill in boxes, they said inside of it was a future They bomb a school full of students and do away the computers Technology, we can use it on mother earth to improve her Instead we steady abuse her but was it worth the maneuver? [Watsky] Who are we kidding? You and me didn’t ruin the system But soon the kids who crawled out of the sewers grew to be different [Adam Vida] Brutally killing for power’s not our true intuition So we flip the script now we living with the newest traditions [Watsky] Smashing the walls and dancing and drinking Wine in the kitchen [Adam Vida] Kissing and hugging and laughing Fuck it we shining and winning [Watsky] Women and men looking back and telling [Adam Vida] Reminding the children of how it[Watsky] How it  [Adam Vida] How itHow it  How itHow it  How itHow it  How it