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about
Like We Used To is a song about nostalgia. Not the comfortable kind, but rather the kind that makes you reminisce for a moment but then leaves you with the cold realization that things are not the way they once were. I wrote this song about longing for a feeling, longing for a closeness, longing for faith, longing for clarity — all things that felt trapped in the past.
The first draft of this song was finished in January 2019, but as a year passed, the song became about more than just longing to be in the state I was before. Faces and places began to take a spot in what I felt when I read the lyrics back to myself. Friends, loves, homes away from home that had slipped through my fingers like sand on the shore of the season I’m in right now — their absence rang true.
And though it sounds cheesy, I’ve been moved by how many people have resonated with what I’m going through. The song is more than mine now.
And there’s the final word — the light at the end of the tunnel — the major chord that resolves; there’s the hope in all this pain: we are not alone after all.
- NV
lyrics
Lyrics:
You know I really miss your face, friend
That look in your eye
The way you take it slow when you talk
And don’t watch the time
I know it’s taken me too long to
Get it off of my chest
Just how much I dream about you
I miss the sound of your breath
(Your breath)
Hey, it’s been a year I haven’t called you
Wish I could hear your laugh again
Cause all these things that I still haven’t told you
They’ve been teaching me how to pretend
I remember when my heart was clear blue;
A little sad, but you could see inside
’Til I lost the only one that I could open up to.
Is it too late to go back in time?
Cause I wanna walk next to your steps
Where you walk
I wanna look you in the eye
and love it when we talk
Like we used to
Well it’s today’s groans
And yesterdays cries
I’ve got a hole in my heart
A fire in my mind
Cause I still miss you
Well now it’s 2AM, and I’m still talking to strangers
But half of them won’t remember my name
So I’ve settled in to a cold nostalgia
It’s all that’s left and I’m the one left to blame
If you saw how much I’m still thinking about
The way it all used to be
Would you come run up the street and slow me down,
Reach out your hand and sing it back to me?
I wanna walk next to your steps
Where you walk
I wanna look you in the eye
and love it when we talk
Like we used to
Well, it’s today’s groans
And yesterdays cries
I’ve got a hole in my heart
A fire in my mind
Cause I still miss you
Did you miss it too?
credits
released March 12, 2020
Produced, Written, and Performed by Noah Vella
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