Ain't Like It - The Four Owls

It used to be homely now it feels lonely

Never been liked, cheers, but now nobody knows me

Sometimes ghosts stroke me, those that lost toast me

But still the same song banging on the karaoke

It used to have essence but they forgot their lessons

In this town that’s like a breeding ground for proper messes

they haven’t got it we use to go and get it

Battling your pride until the day you lose and look pathetic

Used to get uplifted, now that donkey sniffed it, three legged in The race

looking kind of twisted

Had my money on him thought the kid was kind of gifted

Ain’t like it used to be and certainly ain’t how

Shit, pissed I missed it throw a rope and fix shit

New bladders and some brains on the list at Christmas

Everything changes then all you’re left with is mazes take the right turns and

you escape it

I used to be affected now it’s like I’m not quite connected

Something in my minds been messed with

Now there’s not many things that surprise me, used to be different,

life desensitised me

I used to be a dreamer, slowly I woke up groaned and I rose up shaking my head

Used to be the type to watch what you said or someone was taking offence

Now everybody wants to shock and be extreme, respect at an all time low,

seems to be

Used to be lines that you had to read between now there’s no subtlety and no

type of decency

I was blitzing it up every night now I just ain’t got the same recovery time

Unaware of the come down that’s where you pay the cost

Twisted in a knot right now trying to shake it off

Mods and rockers clash like cops and robbers

Then it turned to chavs rude boys and dirty sloshers

Used to hand out flyers now our names are followed

People trust their governments until the snakes were spotted

Always plotting inside jobs you know it’s common knowledge

Big up the whistle-blowers sitting there doing porridge

Free speech for life son you know they can’t abolish

Profits lacking in the intellect

Used to play tape-decks on my VHS

Now it’s all mobile phones, downloads and internet

Used to think teenage mutant ninja turtles was the best

Until I find out about rap, weed and having sex

The rest is history I used to think that class was dead

Now I’m on a quest to find the answers to the life I’m blessed

Used to hope that i was older, now i am, i feel content

Despite the fact i got to work, pay bills, provide the rent

It used to be that weed was £100 an ounce now you’re taking out a loan and

filling a bank account

Small amounts baggie looking like a leaf in a pissy pit

Can’t stand it like a new album from the for fucks sake someone hit the kid

who’s making his beats please

All heroes following the trends of the youth without the sound we know thought

you’re just a dick-head in the booth

All my real heads salute i know i ain’t the only, one a rich kid in skinny

jeans ain’t where I’m coming from

Ain’t like it used to be but the change ain’t new to me most have a old friend

that turned to the mutiny

remember when we used to play cd’s for Verb T, used to be the type to get hyped

for the hover board now I’m outside Tony’s house with a rusty saw

Ain’t like it used to be

It Ain’t like it