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Back then
House
Back then was released on May 22, 2026 by Visionario Records as a part of the album Londen Hybrid
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Release DateMay 22, 2026
LabelVisionario Records
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM125

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Hendrik Slik
Hendrik Slik
Sampled Artist
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Hendrik Slik
Hendrik Slik
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Hendrik Slik
Hendrik Slik
Executive Producer

Lyrics

I still see it sometimes
Not clearly
Just pieces
Light through a window
A path
Trees
Someone calling me in before dark
There was a road behind the house
Narrow, quiet, worn by feet
Summer dust and bicycle marks
Warm air rising from the street
A bakery on the corner turned
Fresh bread into morning air
And every face I passed back then
Was one I thought would stay right there
The days moved slow in little ways
A gate half open, voices there
School bells landing through the blocks
Someone dragging crates somewhere
From gardens full of color then
Windows open to the heat
Nobody locked their whole life up
Nobody rushed through every week
I thought it stayed
I thought it stayed
That kind of light
That kind of place
Back then
It felt like
Back then
Nothing moved too fast
I thought it all would last
The world was small and close to me
It made sense to breathe
I thought it stayed
I thought it stayed
But people leave and streets get changed
Brick by brick the old gets cleared
Glass goes up where hedges stood
Clean straight lines where life appeared
Now blue light fills the living rooms
Faces glow and curtains stay shut
Flowers sit there made of plastic
And the wind feels colder than it was
The young ones moving faster close
To a quicker laugh into their screens
They belong to something new
Or something sharper, brighter, clean
And I do not blame them for it
That's just how the world rolls on
Still some nights I miss the feeling
Of a place that now is gone
I know it changed
I know it had to
Still part of me runs back there after dark
Back then, I believed
Back then, nothing leaves
Back then, I had no word for losing things
Back then
I just believed
Back then, everything felt known
Even being alone
Had a kind of quiet around it
Back then, I never felt beyond it
I remember fathers with coins in hand
Mothers laughing in the grass
Doors left open to the evening
Thinking days like that would last
Now I only hold the outline
Of some fading in my mind
Of some places never leave you
Even when they're gone in time
Maybe that's what growing is
Not just moving on
But carrying old streets inside you
After the streets are gone
Back then
Still in me
Under everything
Somewhere under all this new
Back then still comes through
I can feel it now
Though it all turned out
Different from the way I saw it as a kid
Still that place lives in me a bit
Back then, time moved anyway
Even if I prayed
Nothing ever stays the way it started
Still it leaves a mark inside your heart
There was a road behind the house
There were trees against the sky
There was a version of the world
Before I learned that things could die
I still go there sometimes
Not really
Just in my head
Written by: Hendrik Slik
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