Before Everyone Grew Up.

We used to meet outside when the streetlights came on,

Bikes in the driveway, summer nights running long.

Nobody had money, but we never needed much,

Just a couple good friends and a little bit of trust.

We talked about forever like it wasn’t far away,

Said we’d always stay together, nothing ever gonna change.

Then somebody got a job, somebody moved away,

Somebody found somebody, and the rest just lost their way.

There wasn’t one goodbye,

No moment we could blame,

We just looked around one day

And everything had changed.

That’s when everyone started growing up,

When Friday nights turned into working late and waking up.

When dreams got bills and freedom got a price,

And “see you tomorrow” turned to “maybe sometime.”

We traded playground scars for wounds we never show,

Started carrying things our younger selves would never know.

Funny how we wanted time to hurry up—

Now I’d give anything to go back

Before everyone started growing up.

The group chat got quieter year after year,

Old best friends became names we barely hear.

Some got married, some had kids of their own,

Some found their purpose, some still feel alone.

The houses look smaller when you drive by again,

That corner store closed where we all used to spend

Every dollar in our pockets on a drink and something sweet,

Thinking life was complicated when life was still easy.

Maybe growing up ain’t losing who we were,

Maybe every broken road just adds another verse.

And even if we’re scattered underneath different skies,

There’s still a little piece of us that never said goodbye.

Yeah, everyone started growing up,

Learning love ain’t easy and being strong gets tough.

Parents got older, years started moving fast,

And suddenly the future started looking like the past.

But every laugh, every driveway, every reckless summer night

Still lives inside the people that we became with time.

We spent our whole childhood wishing we were old enough—

Never knowing how much we’d miss

Who we were

Before everyone started growing up.