Dan Bull, Genesis Elijah - I Am Thirty lyrics

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