The Older I Get

Album: released as a single (2025)
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  • The older I get I can't understand it
    Can they really not find a cure for cancer
    Or do they already have an answer
    But they see dollar signs
    In a child's eyes

    The older I get I can't tell the difference
    'Tween super hero's and super villains
    Guess one side traded all their capes in
    And now the bad guys
    Wear a suit and tie

    Just make it make sense
    Do the good guys ever win?

    They say you'll get it when you're older
    But I just understand it less
    How's the world so god damn ugly
    The older that I get

    It's like it just keeps gettin' colder
    And it's fuckin' with my head
    I woulda stayed young if I'd known
    This was the older
    The older that I'd get

    The older I get I hear "it's just business"
    When these crooked politicians
    Line the pockets of their rich friends
    Knowin' you and I
    Gotta pay the price

    The older I get I wish that Christians
    Tried to be a little more like Jesus
    But I guess all those poor and sick kids
    Just can't buy that house of white

    Just make it make sense
    Do the good guys ever win?

    They say you'll get it when you're older
    But I just understand it less
    How's the world so god damn ugly
    The older that I get

    It's like it just keeps gettin' colder
    And it's fuckin' with my head
    I woulda stayed young if I'd known
    This was the older
    The older that I'd get

    Raise your right hand, plead the 5th
    Tryna cover up names on a list
    Lie and say that it doesn't exist
    What the fuck kinda place am I in?

    Work two jobs try to make rent
    Heaven help ya if you've got brown skin
    Watch 'em starve on Gaza Strip
    How the fuck is this the older I get?

    They say you'll get it when you're older
    But I just understand it less
    How's the world so god damn ugly
    The older that I get

    It's like it just keeps gettin' colder
    And it's fuckin' with my head
    I woulda stayed young if I'd known
    This was the older
    The older that I'd get Writer/s: Alexander Borel, Bryan Andrews, Colin Foote
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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