K`NAAN ☆ Gold In Timbuktu

When I am old and lonely
Would you still be there for me
‘Cause now I have
all of my strength
And you have all your beauty
When you’re gold in Timbuktu
Will I still come look for you
Let’s swim in the deep end
Make it warm that we can
For you for me
Buried in the deep end
Life is one big weekend
Youth
One day you have it and then
Proof
It’s gone with the wind
It’s a kin to the end
And no matter how you fight it
How you light it
How you write it
Time is the pen out of ink
Poof and I’m a living proof
I used to have it all
Young and uncoof
These days
I hear everything on delay
‘Cause I wear an air piece
just to hear what he say
When my son visit
I don’t know why I get livid
Maybe I’m jealous of his age
My memories vivid
I was just like him
Young like him
Had a mouth on me
a tongue like him
But now I’m feeling much weaker
Closest thing to my heart
is a mandatory gripper
And my eyes ain’t
what they used to be either
But here’s me
singing promise from la Vita
When I am old and lonely
Would you still be there for me
‘Cause now I have
all of my strength
And you have all your beauty
When you’re gold in Timbuktu
Will I still come look for you
Let’s swim in the deep end
Make it warm that we can
For you for me
Buried in the deep end
Life is one big weekend
Push
One day you comin’ and then
Woosh
You’d be surprised how easy is
To be enticed and feasting life
Without the least of
dreams suffice
So watch it
Fly like fear to flight
So I’m busy chasing
a decent size
Tush and
I ain’t never been a wuss
Have more arms than an octopus
Those days
I never thought of old age
I never thought
I’d see the hair in my nose gray
But life goes on how ironic
If I could do it over
I’d probably smoke chronic
But still follow the footsteps
of prophet Mohammed
I probably turn every lie
that I told honest
I be an equal terrorist
I give the middle finger
to my therapist
And flush my sedatest
I’ll have a baby with a feminist
and name him sexist
Life’s a contradiction
on my check list
When I am old and lonely
Would you still be there for me
‘Cause now I have
all of my strength
And you have all your beauty
When you’re gold in Timbuktu
Will I still come look for you
Let’s swim in the deep end
Make it warm that we can
For you for me
Buried in the deep end
Life is one big weekend