“Today Was Once Someday” Lyrics & Credits
Inspired by my rap battle days and the passage of time.
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Vocals and lyrics by Dylan Owen
Written by Dylan Owen, naebird
Produced by naebird Synth, keys by naebird
Mixed by Jeremie Inhaber
Mastered by Héctor Vega at Bespoke Sonics
Bespoke Sonics Assistant Engineer Isaiah Chamberlain
Bespoke Sonics Studio Personnel Dasha Sands
Cover Photo by Thomas Ford Flynn
Cover Artwork by Dylan Owen
Today was once someday wow
Today was once someday how
If you're gonna live do it now
Today was once someday
I keep on running till my young bones rot
My lungs go pop
My band’s last drum roll stops
It’s a new day today
Where the sun’s so hot
We don’t need to meet our heroes
We become those watch
Till audiences rock with it
Start moving their moccasins
The music finds you
You just need to stay on top of it
This focused and present
I could skip over you legends
I wore high tops
So I could stand an inch closer to heaven
Hike the hill winter chill this shit is ill
We just lost another kid from our town to prescription pills
We heal our pain
Despite our field guides changing
Been backstabbed and framed
Like a still life painting
But lately I’ve been dreaming
Believing there’s deeper meaning
To be completed I needed
To leave where my feet were leading
The key is proceeding
Even when reason is Liam Neeson’d
Indeed you put my CD in and see an emcee conceding
Believe it
Riptides ripping out my insides
See it written on my face like six nine
Your best day’s ahead of you
So some said
Then they fell asleep living
Woke up dead
Today was once someday
Today was once someday wow
Today was once someday how
If you’re gonna live do it now
Today was once someday blaow
Today was once someday wow
Today was once someday how
If you’re gonna live do it now
Today was once someday blaow
I keep on running till my young bones rot
My lungs go pop
My band lets one note drop
Until I pass on
My mom gets the front row spot
It’s always us against the world
I love those odds
Have you ever seen a bleeding heart that beats in reverse
And everything has deeper meaning like a teenager’s words
We learn to hate before we love and that’s a predated curse
And if you’re gonna stream my consciousness then presave it first
I’m not trying to be heavy
I just wanna dream can we
Please empty these nalgene canteens
That we’ve carried
Plant a couple seeds
Feed the cedar trees in me
Let me reach deep in me
Pull out the Lebanese in me
All I need’s a broken casio
And my soul is classical
You could send the flowers to my grave
Like Joe Dimaggio
The only writer rapping
Like a Harvard Rhodes Scholar
Got the world in my palm
Like a Harlem Globetrotter
Spinning
Today was once someday wow
Today was once someday how
If you’re gonna live do it now
Today was once someday blaow
Today was once someday wow
Today was once someday how
If you’re gonna live do it now
Today was once someday blaow
My name is Dylan Owen
Oh my god
That’s called flow baby