Chords for Sasha Sloan "Older" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified
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The inspiration for this song was pretty much my entire childhood.
I grew up with parents who were divorced when I was like three.
They both remarried to other people when I was about ten,
and they both got divorced again when I was seventeen.
Older is a song that I've been trying to write my entire life,
and I never really knew how to write it without sounding too bitter,
and I think I had to live [Em] my own life and experience things for myself
in order to really get the perspective right
and kind of understand what my parents went through.
King Henry is an amazing producer, and he's also my boyfriend,
which is a bad look, but YOLO.
I remember I actually wrote this song in Germany when I was doing promo
[N] with my friend Danny.
We got super high.
Somehow we found a joint in the middle of Germany,
and we were like, thank fucking God.
And then we went to KFC, and then we went back to the hotel room.
Danny started playing this guitar thing, and I started singing Older over it.
So we had written kind of like the first half of the song,
and then I sent the voice note to Henry.
He texted back.
He was like, oh my God, what the fuck is this?
I started crying in my living room.
He kind of just started an idea for it at home,
and then when I came back to LA, we finished it out together.
Music up, get high and try not to listen to every little fight
Cause neither one was right
After my mom and my stepdad got divorced, we moved out of this house
that I kind of went to high school in, and then my senior year
I spent living in an apartment with my mom, and I had this tiny room.
I mean, literally it was my bed and then a keyboard.
I just remember spending pretty much all of my senior year in there.
And my stepdad would come over, and they'd kind of go at it.
So I would just kind of get in my room and open the window up
and light a joint and try and just shut it all out.
I swore I'd never be like them
But I was just a kid back then
I always tell King Henry he's going to be my first husband.
Just kidding.
No one really knows what they're doing.
And I think as a kid, you expect your parents to have all the answers
and you expect them to be perfect.
And as you become an adult, you realize life has challenges
you didn't even know existed.
You know, I think the more that I live and go through things,
I'm just trying to figure it out myself.
And I think I'm just a lot less harsh judging my parents than everyone
because no one really knows what they're doing.
The older I get, the more that I see
My parents aren't heroes, they're just like me
And loving is hard, it don't always work
You just try your best not to get hurt
You know, when you're first in love with someone,
you're so in love with them, and that honeymoon phase is insane.
And it's hard to imagine that ever ending.
And then as time goes by and you change and you grow into different people,
it gets messier and what was there in the beginning doesn't last forever.
With my mom and my dad, they had me very early on to their relationship.
My whole life I was like, why couldn't you have just made it work?
Why couldn't you have stayed together?
And once I went through my own breakup, I was like,
well, sometimes it is better to not be with someone.
I used to let someone go, it just hadn't hit me yet
The older I get
Even if you end up hating their guts, you will always have that love for them no matter what.
And I actually really believe that.
I experienced that with my ex-boyfriend.
I still love him and I still hope the best for him.
And I wanted him to be happy and that's, I think, why I had to walk away.
I used to close my eyes
And pray for a whole nother family
Where everything was fine
One that felt like mine
I went to high school in a really small suburb in Massachusetts.
And I grew up in so much dysfunction and then I would go over to my friend's house
and they had this giant McMansion and their parents were seemingly perfect
and all the holidays were always fun.
There was just a lot of normalcy surrounding me
And I just remember always going to my friend's houses and being like,
man, I wish my home life was like this.
I'm lucky though because I think I got to see what not to do
and I also got to see what to do.
So I kind of got the best of both worlds.
[Em] Just please make this song a hit.
Please, fucking God.
Please, guys.
I'm roasting my entire family to the entire world.
Please, just stream it, download it, so I'm not excommunicated forever.
I grew up with parents who were divorced when I was like three.
They both remarried to other people when I was about ten,
and they both got divorced again when I was seventeen.
Older is a song that I've been trying to write my entire life,
and I never really knew how to write it without sounding too bitter,
and I think I had to live [Em] my own life and experience things for myself
in order to really get the perspective right
and kind of understand what my parents went through.
King Henry is an amazing producer, and he's also my boyfriend,
which is a bad look, but YOLO.
I remember I actually wrote this song in Germany when I was doing promo
[N] with my friend Danny.
We got super high.
Somehow we found a joint in the middle of Germany,
and we were like, thank fucking God.
And then we went to KFC, and then we went back to the hotel room.
Danny started playing this guitar thing, and I started singing Older over it.
So we had written kind of like the first half of the song,
and then I sent the voice note to Henry.
He texted back.
He was like, oh my God, what the fuck is this?
I started crying in my living room.
He kind of just started an idea for it at home,
and then when I came back to LA, we finished it out together.
Music up, get high and try not to listen to every little fight
Cause neither one was right
After my mom and my stepdad got divorced, we moved out of this house
that I kind of went to high school in, and then my senior year
I spent living in an apartment with my mom, and I had this tiny room.
I mean, literally it was my bed and then a keyboard.
I just remember spending pretty much all of my senior year in there.
And my stepdad would come over, and they'd kind of go at it.
So I would just kind of get in my room and open the window up
and light a joint and try and just shut it all out.
I swore I'd never be like them
But I was just a kid back then
I always tell King Henry he's going to be my first husband.
Just kidding.
No one really knows what they're doing.
And I think as a kid, you expect your parents to have all the answers
and you expect them to be perfect.
And as you become an adult, you realize life has challenges
you didn't even know existed.
You know, I think the more that I live and go through things,
I'm just trying to figure it out myself.
And I think I'm just a lot less harsh judging my parents than everyone
because no one really knows what they're doing.
The older I get, the more that I see
My parents aren't heroes, they're just like me
And loving is hard, it don't always work
You just try your best not to get hurt
You know, when you're first in love with someone,
you're so in love with them, and that honeymoon phase is insane.
And it's hard to imagine that ever ending.
And then as time goes by and you change and you grow into different people,
it gets messier and what was there in the beginning doesn't last forever.
With my mom and my dad, they had me very early on to their relationship.
My whole life I was like, why couldn't you have just made it work?
Why couldn't you have stayed together?
And once I went through my own breakup, I was like,
well, sometimes it is better to not be with someone.
I used to let someone go, it just hadn't hit me yet
The older I get
Even if you end up hating their guts, you will always have that love for them no matter what.
And I actually really believe that.
I experienced that with my ex-boyfriend.
I still love him and I still hope the best for him.
And I wanted him to be happy and that's, I think, why I had to walk away.
I used to close my eyes
And pray for a whole nother family
Where everything was fine
One that felt like mine
I went to high school in a really small suburb in Massachusetts.
And I grew up in so much dysfunction and then I would go over to my friend's house
and they had this giant McMansion and their parents were seemingly perfect
and all the holidays were always fun.
There was just a lot of normalcy surrounding me
And I just remember always going to my friend's houses and being like,
man, I wish my home life was like this.
I'm lucky though because I think I got to see what not to do
and I also got to see what to do.
So I kind of got the best of both worlds.
[Em] Just please make this song a hit.
Please, fucking God.
Please, guys.
I'm roasting my entire family to the entire world.
Please, just stream it, download it, so I'm not excommunicated forever.
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The inspiration for this song was pretty much my entire childhood.
I grew up with parents who were divorced when I was like three.
They both remarried to other people when I was about ten,
and they both got divorced again when I was seventeen.
Older is a song that I've been trying to write my entire life,
and I never really knew how to write it without sounding too bitter,
and I think I had to live [Em] my own life and experience things for myself
in order to really get the perspective right
and kind of understand what my parents went through. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ King Henry is an amazing producer, and he's also my boyfriend,
which is a bad look, but YOLO.
I remember I actually wrote this song in Germany when I was doing promo
[N] with my friend Danny.
We got super high.
Somehow we found a joint in the middle of Germany,
and we were like, thank fucking God.
And then we went to KFC, and then we went back to the hotel room.
Danny started playing this guitar thing, and I started singing Older over it.
So we had written kind of like the first half of the song,
and then I sent the voice note to Henry.
He texted back.
He was like, oh my God, what the fuck is this?
I started crying in my living room.
He kind of just started an idea for it at home,
and then when I came back to LA, we finished it out together.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Music up, get high and try not to listen to every little fight
_ Cause neither one was right
After my mom and my stepdad got divorced, we moved out of this house
that I kind of went to high school in, and then my senior year
I spent living in an apartment with my mom, and I had this tiny room.
I mean, literally it was my bed and then a keyboard.
I just remember spending pretty much all of my senior year in there.
And _ _ my stepdad would come over, and they'd kind of go at it.
So I would just kind of get in my room and open the window up
and light a joint and try and just shut it all out.
_ I swore I'd never be like them
_ But I was just a kid back then
I always tell King Henry he's going to be my first husband.
_ _ Just kidding.
No one really knows what they're doing.
And I think as a kid, you expect your parents to have all the answers
and you expect them to be perfect.
_ And as you become an adult, you realize life has challenges
you didn't even know existed.
You know, I think the more that I live and go through things,
I'm just trying to figure it out myself.
And I think I'm just a lot less harsh judging my parents than everyone
because no one really knows what they're doing.
_ _ The older I get, the more that I see
My parents aren't heroes, they're just like me
And loving is hard, it don't always work
You just try your best not to get hurt
You know, when you're first in love with someone,
you're so in love with them, and that honeymoon phase is insane.
And it's hard to imagine that ever ending.
And then as time goes by and you change and you grow into different people,
it gets messier and _ what was there in the beginning doesn't last forever.
With my mom and my dad, they _ had me very early on to their relationship.
My whole life I was like, why couldn't you have just made it work?
Why couldn't you have stayed together?
And once I went through my own breakup, I was like,
well, sometimes it is better to not be with someone. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I used to let someone go, it just hadn't hit me yet
The older I get
Even if you end up hating their guts, you will always have that love for them no matter what.
And I actually really believe that.
I experienced that with my ex-boyfriend.
I still love him and I still hope the best for him.
And I wanted him to be happy and that's, I think, why I had to walk away. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
I used to close my eyes
And pray for a whole nother family
Where everything was fine
_ One that felt like mine
I went to high school in a really small suburb in Massachusetts.
And I grew up in so much dysfunction and then I would go over to my friend's house
and they had this giant McMansion and their parents were seemingly perfect
and all the holidays were always fun.
There was just a lot of normalcy surrounding me
And I just remember always going to my friend's houses and being like,
man, I wish _ my home life was like this.
I'm lucky though because I think I got to see what not to do
and I also got to see what to do.
So I kind of got the best of both worlds.
_ _ [Em] Just please make this song a hit.
Please, fucking God.
_ Please, guys.
I'm roasting my entire family to the entire world.
Please, just stream it, download it, so I'm not excommunicated forever.
I grew up with parents who were divorced when I was like three.
They both remarried to other people when I was about ten,
and they both got divorced again when I was seventeen.
Older is a song that I've been trying to write my entire life,
and I never really knew how to write it without sounding too bitter,
and I think I had to live [Em] my own life and experience things for myself
in order to really get the perspective right
and kind of understand what my parents went through. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ King Henry is an amazing producer, and he's also my boyfriend,
which is a bad look, but YOLO.
I remember I actually wrote this song in Germany when I was doing promo
[N] with my friend Danny.
We got super high.
Somehow we found a joint in the middle of Germany,
and we were like, thank fucking God.
And then we went to KFC, and then we went back to the hotel room.
Danny started playing this guitar thing, and I started singing Older over it.
So we had written kind of like the first half of the song,
and then I sent the voice note to Henry.
He texted back.
He was like, oh my God, what the fuck is this?
I started crying in my living room.
He kind of just started an idea for it at home,
and then when I came back to LA, we finished it out together.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Music up, get high and try not to listen to every little fight
_ Cause neither one was right
After my mom and my stepdad got divorced, we moved out of this house
that I kind of went to high school in, and then my senior year
I spent living in an apartment with my mom, and I had this tiny room.
I mean, literally it was my bed and then a keyboard.
I just remember spending pretty much all of my senior year in there.
And _ _ my stepdad would come over, and they'd kind of go at it.
So I would just kind of get in my room and open the window up
and light a joint and try and just shut it all out.
_ I swore I'd never be like them
_ But I was just a kid back then
I always tell King Henry he's going to be my first husband.
_ _ Just kidding.
No one really knows what they're doing.
And I think as a kid, you expect your parents to have all the answers
and you expect them to be perfect.
_ And as you become an adult, you realize life has challenges
you didn't even know existed.
You know, I think the more that I live and go through things,
I'm just trying to figure it out myself.
And I think I'm just a lot less harsh judging my parents than everyone
because no one really knows what they're doing.
_ _ The older I get, the more that I see
My parents aren't heroes, they're just like me
And loving is hard, it don't always work
You just try your best not to get hurt
You know, when you're first in love with someone,
you're so in love with them, and that honeymoon phase is insane.
And it's hard to imagine that ever ending.
And then as time goes by and you change and you grow into different people,
it gets messier and _ what was there in the beginning doesn't last forever.
With my mom and my dad, they _ had me very early on to their relationship.
My whole life I was like, why couldn't you have just made it work?
Why couldn't you have stayed together?
And once I went through my own breakup, I was like,
well, sometimes it is better to not be with someone. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I used to let someone go, it just hadn't hit me yet
The older I get
Even if you end up hating their guts, you will always have that love for them no matter what.
And I actually really believe that.
I experienced that with my ex-boyfriend.
I still love him and I still hope the best for him.
And I wanted him to be happy and that's, I think, why I had to walk away. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
I used to close my eyes
And pray for a whole nother family
Where everything was fine
_ One that felt like mine
I went to high school in a really small suburb in Massachusetts.
And I grew up in so much dysfunction and then I would go over to my friend's house
and they had this giant McMansion and their parents were seemingly perfect
and all the holidays were always fun.
There was just a lot of normalcy surrounding me
And I just remember always going to my friend's houses and being like,
man, I wish _ my home life was like this.
I'm lucky though because I think I got to see what not to do
and I also got to see what to do.
So I kind of got the best of both worlds.
_ _ [Em] Just please make this song a hit.
Please, fucking God.
_ Please, guys.
I'm roasting my entire family to the entire world.
Please, just stream it, download it, so I'm not excommunicated forever.