Like I Used To Lyrics
Will the marker stain the skin?
Stole the dress I saw you in
Now nothing comes to mind
Saw a life as override
One more session overdrive
The ceiling is the roof
[Pre-Chorus: Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen]
Change address and draw a line
Show my friends the silver line
Call my family just to know they're there
[Chorus: Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen]
Sleeping in late like I used to
Crossing my fingers like I used to
Waiting inside like I used to
Avoiding big crowds like I used to
[Verse 2: Angel Olsen]
Crawl the field and lеt you in
Brand my heart I found you in
To say nothing's more apart
Will my lover bе there, stay
Follow them to less the pain
The ceiling must be wrong
Well, my head's gone today
Sell my past for a way
To sing and have something left to say
Pray my hands, strain my voice
Give the reason, take away
Make believe an order for the stay
[Chorus: Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen]
Lighting one up like I used to
Dancing all alone like I used to
Giving it up like I used to
Falling in love like I used to
Open my heart like I used to
Making out long like I used to
Holding hands openly, rights to
Taking what's mine like I used to
[Outro: Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen]
Like I used to (Like I used to)
Like I used to (Like I used to)
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Sharon Van Etten via social media:
I have loved Angel Olsen’s music for a long time. I have been to her shows and cried in the audience. I have cheers’d her post show on the road. She has sent me inspirations and support in my high and lows along the way. I never thought I would get the courage to send her an unfinished song and ask her to do a duet with me and here we are. Thank you, Angel, for calling my bluff and lifting me up, and making this song better than it ever could have been. I hope you all enjoy this collaboration that has spanned a year in the making. I am so happy to share it with you. Xo
I’ve met with Sharon here and there throughout the years and have always felt too shy to ask her what she’s been up to or working on but in 2020 she approached me to work on a song together. Summer went by and we kept talking, going back and forth on a verse or two- it was the first time I really wrote something with someone like this. The song reminded me immediately of getting back to where I started, before music was expected of me, or much was expected of me, a time that remains pure and real in my heart and important for me to remember and check in with as I go forward in this life.
