✨ About the Track"When I Was Small" is a bittersweet journey back to childhood—not to escape reality, but to reconnect with the truth we knew before the world taught us to doubt ourselves. This emotionally raw hip-hop track balances sadness with hope, exploring how we lose our light growing up, and why revisiting that younger version of ourselves isn't nostalgia—it's reclaiming who we really are. For anyone who's ever felt the weight of adulthood and wondered where that fearless kid went.
📜 Lyrics Highlight"I imagine childhood not to hide, But to remember what's still inside, That little light that used to guide."
📝 Full Lyrics
🎤 When I Was Small
[Intro]
Close my eyes, travel back in time,
To the days when the world was mine.
When I was small...
Before the weight, before the fall.
[Verse 1]
I remember when my biggest fear was darkness in my room,
Not the darkness in the world, not the inevitable doom.
When a scraped knee was a tragedy, a hug could heal it all,
Now the wounds are deeper, scars invisible but tall.
Used to think adults had answers, thought they knew the way,
Now I am the adult and I'm lost every day.
I remember Christmas mornin', magic in the air,
Believin' in the impossible without a single care.
Now I calculate the odds, weigh the risk before I try,
Lost that reckless hope somewhere between hello and goodbye.
[Chorus]
Take me back to when I was small,
Before I learned that we all fall.
When imagination had no walls,
I imagine childhood not to hide,
But to remember what's still inside,
That little light that used to guide.
[Verse 2]
I remember mama's voice sayin' "you can be anything,"
Believed it with my whole heart, felt the power it would bring.
Now the world's told me a hundred times what I can't do,
Limitations stack like bricks, blockin' out the view.
Used to cry when I was hurt, laugh when I was glad,
Emotions were just honest, never labeled good or bad.
Now I manage feelings, regulate and suppress,
Trained myself to hide the mess, present only success.
[Chorus]
Take me back to when I was small,
Before I learned that we all fall.
When imagination had no walls,
I imagine childhood not to hide,
But to remember what's still inside,
That little light that used to guide.
[Verse 3]
But here's why I imagine bein' young again,
Not to escape my life but to remember when
I had the blueprint of who I'm supposed to be,
Before the world convinced me I should dim my light to fit society.
That child is still in me, buried but alive,
That's why I go back there, that's how I survive.
They show me courage looks like tryin' even when you'll fail,
That fallin' down ain't final, it's just part of the trail.
[Bridge]
That kid reminds me I was whole before the world said otherwise,
That vulnerability's not weakness, it's actually being bold.
I imagine childhood 'cause that's where my fire started,
Before the world tried to convince me I should be half-hearted.
[Outro]
So here's to the child I used to be,
The one who's still alive in me.
You weren't naive, you weren't wrong,
I'm comin' back to you, where I belong.
When I was small, I knew the truth,
That love is real, that dreams are valid,
Thank you, little me, for holdin' on.
