No longer considered youth Youth is wasted on the young, I am living proof They say you only regret the things you didn't do But I didn't think it through to see the hidden truth And I didn't do a lot, but sit in my room and plot About all the things I could do, and did I do it? Did I fuck This isn't cool, this isn't cool I was convinced I'd just finished school, silly fool With every minute miniscule wrinkles materialise By my eyes at the feet of the crow like time it flies Where did my twenties go? My childhood went too slow Time passes faster now, but I didn't sense it though I missed the manly knowledge that we're all meant to know Like how to put up shelves, or to mend a fence that's broke Instead I'll poke my nose over my bifocal lenses And get overly sensitive to semi-offensive I am thirty, and hardly got my hands dirty At least, a third through life, and I'm still learning all that can hurt me At half my age I was fifteen Twice my age I'll be sixty, jeez Man, a fool at forty is a fool forever I used to think at thirty that I'd have it all together How's he look so old? We used to go to school together Wait, is that how he sees me? Man, this is awkward, fella Yeah, they say with age comes wisdom They took my wisdom, teeth, and then the greys came with them I care less about trying to save face, these young rappers gave chase Like I'm trying to stay paced with them Yeah, I'm getting old, but ain't that the goal? Keep up with these young tings? Yeah, that's a no 'Cause bro, I spent my whole twenties on the road And ever since then I've just been coming in to my own Comfortable in my own skin, comfortable on my own Some of you have only got older, but never grown Many never made it this far, so we'll never know I let my soul speak on recordings just to let the record show, yo If I could give you any piece of advice It'd be at any point you reach in your life You're always young to someone, and you can always find A reason to rise, following dreams is what keeps us alive, I swear down I am thirty, a baby racing straight there From the first down on my crown to streaks of grey hair Time is short, make my steak rare I'm still innocent, but living in a snake's lair They like to fight Bulls and bait bears So take care with whom you break bread, or you could wake dead That's what my mate said, I'm an older generation, time to take the role of elder statesman My hellraising days of uncontrolled mayhem are ancient Now I take pains to stay safe, evade danger And frown on the same behaviour, it's innate nature To lay the foundations, now our generation's outdated My "going out" rate is downgraded It's mad, jeez, I have reached the age My mom and dad had been when they had me, sadly A has-been, give me back my happy teens, baggy jeans You can even give me back my acne, gladly I am thirty, and hardly got my hands dirty At least, a third through life, and I'm still learning all that can hurt me At half my age I was fifteen Twice my age I'll be sixty, jeez I am thirty, and hardly got my hands dirty At least, a third through life, and I'm still learning all that can hurt me At half my age I was fifteen Twice my age I'll be sixty, jeez