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When I Was Older Lyrics – Billie Eilish

    Billie Eilish - WHEN I WAS OLDER (Music Inspired By The Film ROMA/Audio)

    Album Info

    When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

    When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Billie Eilish. It was released on March 29, 2019, by Darkroom and Interscope Records in the US and Polydor Records in the UK. Eilish largely co-wrote the album with her brother Finneas O’Connell, who produced its music at his small bedroom studio in Highland Park, Los Angeles.

    Musically, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is a pop, electropop, avant-pop, and art pop record, though it also features influences from hip hop and industrial music. Its songs explore themes such as modern youth, drug addiction, heartbreak, suicide, and mental health, with lyrical sensibilities of humor and horror. Eilish said the album was inspired in part by lucid dreaming and night terrors, which are reflected on the cover photo.

    When I Was Older Song Lyrics

    When I was older
    I was a sailor
    On an open sea
    But now I’m underwater
    And my skin is paler
    Than it should ever be

    I’m on my back again
    Dreaming of a time and place
    Where you and I remain the best of friends
    Even after all this ends
    Can we pretend?
    I’m on my, I’m on my back again
    It’s seeming more and more
    Like all we ever do is see
    How far it bends
    Before it breaks in half and then
    We bend it back again

    Guess I got caught in the middle of it
    Yes I’ve been taught, got a little of it
    In my blood, in my blood
    Memories burn like a forest fire
    Heavy rain turns any funeral pyre to mud
    In the flood

    When I was older
    I was a sailor
    On an open sea
    But now I’m underwater
    And my skin is paler
    Than it should ever be

    I’m watching movies back to back
    In black and white, I never
    Seen anybody do it like I do it any better
    Been going over you, I’m overdue for new endeavors
    Nobody lonely like I’m lonely and I don’t know whether
    You’d really like it in the limelight
    You’d sympathize with all the bad guys
    I’m still a victim in my own right
    But I’m the villain in my own eyes

    When I was older
    I was a sailor
    On an open sea

    About the Artist

    Billie Eilish

    18-year-old global pop-phenom Billie Eilish has fast become one of the biggest stars to emerge since the release of her debut single “ocean eyes,” and continues to shatter the ceiling of music with her genre-defying sound. Fast forward from her humble breakout, Billie’s album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? debuted at #1 in the Billboard 200 in the U.S, as well as in the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland and many more. It is now the biggest North American debut of the decade (male, female or group), shifting 313,000 units in the first week and has already hit NUMBER 1 in the Billboard 200 album 3 times since its release in March, earning Billie more than 15 billion combined streams worldwide to date – and has won her 5 GRAMMYs (Best New Artist, Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Pop Vocal Album). Billie is currently on her sold-out WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WORLD TOUR and about to embark on her Arena WHERE DO WE GO? WORLD TOUR.

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