Older Guys

Album: Älskar (2022)
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  • Look at us, we made it out alive
    Those were the years that I learnt to survive
    Maybe youth ain't the time of our lives
    They just romanticize it

    Met you at a party on Halloween
    You were studying at university
    And all your friends would laugh and joke about me
    But I didn't mind being a punchline at sixteen

    I liked that you were older
    But at the time I didn't understand
    It's 'cause you held the power
    And I thought love was meant to feel like that
    All the things I gave you
    Now I wish I could take them all right back
    'Cause I wasn't a woman yet
    But you were a man
    I was just a girl in love with a man

    And it felt like a twisted game you'd play
    Of who could take my innocence away
    But it wasn't yours
    No, never yours to claim
    I thought that to love was to give yourself away

    It sent me into orbit
    Knowing that you wanted me like that
    Didn't see a problem
    It's only now I'm older, looking back
    Made me feel so special
    Now the only thing I feel is mad
    'Cause I wasn't a woman yet
    But you were a man
    I wasn't a woman yet, but now I am

    You'd pick me up in your car
    We'd go speeding down the lanes
    I'd meet you in town
    With my fake ID, claiming I was 23
    To get into bars
    I'd never felt so cool and
    Now I know you probably knew that I
    Would do anything to impress you
    And now I wonder, is that how they get you?

    They say that your youth is
    Meant to be the time of your life
    But I feel fucking stupid
    That I was crying over older guys
    Bet they don't think about it
    Wish I knew what I know now back then
    'Cause I wasn't a woman yet
    But you were a man
    I was just a girl in love with a man Writer/s: Nina Nesbitt
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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