[Intro: guitar feedback, one snare crack] Old man Strength [Hook: shouted, gang vocals on "old man strength"] Old man strength! (Old man strength!) Can't buy it, can't teach it, gotta bleed it to get it Gray in my beard, that's the color of iron Thirty years in, motherfucker, I ain't tired [Verse 1] Fifty-one, knees crack louder than your snare Clock in at ten, still the hardest one there I was writin' rhymes on the back of a pay stub Back when you were teethin', now you callin' me "unc" Y'all got a ring light, I got a ring on my hand Twenty-six years with the same woman, understand Kids want smoke, I been breathin' it since tapes Rewound with a pencil, I know what patience takes You got a hundred thousand followers, man, follow this I been on the same block since your daddy had his first kiss You flex in a mirror, I flex at a forklift Liftin' up a pallet with a back that still don't quit I don't go to the gym, I just go to the job Grip like a vise and a voice like a mob [Hook: shouted, gang vocals on "old man strength"] Old man strength! (Old man strength!) Can't buy it, can't teach it, gotta bleed it to get it Gray in my beard, that's the color of iron Thirty years in, motherfucker, I ain't tired [Verse 2: guitars chug, drums tighten] They said rap is a young man's game, cool I been young twice, and I'm still in school You run out of breath on a sixteen bar I got lungs built from thirty years of yellin' in a bar Bad back, good aim, no nap, all flame I don't need the fame, I just need you to say my name right Every scar on my knuckles got a date and a reason I don't change with the weather, I change with the season Y'all call it a comeback, I never left the room I just turned the light off so the young could have the moon [Breakdown: half-time riff, gang shouts] Lift! (Lift!) Thirty years! Lift! (Lift!) Still here! Gray hair, steel chair, nobody gets mine Every hair on my chin is a bar from my prime [Beat Switch: double-time drums, guitars wide open] Bring the young wolf out, let him circle me twice Ain't nothin' in the wild that I ain't seen in my life Hit him with a verse built like a load-bearin' wall I been holdin' up a family, I can hold up y'all I was battlin' in parkin' lots before the lots got lights Bus fare in my sock and a notebook full of fights Half the kings on your wall used to carry my crate And I still beat 'em to the job and I'm never late [Verse 3: one guitar, then full band slams] Grandbaby on my shoulder at the cookout, nap time She can't say "grandpa" yet, but she nods to my rhymes That's the only crowd I need, that's the only stage I ain't fightin' the clock, man, I'm fightin' for the page [Final Hook: shouted, gang vocals] Old man strength! (Old man strength!) Can't buy it, can't teach it, gotta bleed it to get it Gray in my beard, that's the color of iron Fifty-one years, motherfucker, I'm just warmin' up the fire [Outro: feedback, snare crack] Clock in Still here
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