Childhood Dreams Songtext
von Hype feat. J Keyz, Blksnrsng & Manny Voices

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