I'm forty
"The big four oh"
I'm forty
"The big four oh"
I'm forty
"The big four oh"
I'm forty
"The big four oh"

"Five years from thirty"
Plus another five after
Older than the TV infomercial for the thigh master
Half-alive rapper
Never signed to Half Life
Snapping off fast like the segments of X-acto knifes
Yeah, I do my own cuts in a pinch
Stage fright used to have my guts in a cinch
So much innocence diminished like dust in the wind
I'm not a loser, man
I just didn't win
I'm six years older than my father when i got born
Shopworn, well loved
Heard around the harbour like a foghorn
They got warned but little did they know
I got middle aged but never been
Middle of the road

I'm forty
"The big four oh"
I'm forty
"The big four oh"
I'm forty
"The big four oh"
I'm forty
"The big four oh"

I put in the work
The years
The decades
The ten thousand hours
I worked service and lived in low rent housing
I toured far and wide
Performed in bars, dives, and chip shops
Bizarre Ride! I made my mind an archive of hip-hop
Living in tribute to the forebears
The kid trail-blazed with pigtails, braids, and short hair
I fought fair
I couldn't wouldn't didn't stop
Rocking to the rhythm and chewing more than I'd bitten off
I've shown my influences reverence
Flown by intuition
Made known my preferences
For the freshest princes and the jazziest of Jeffs
If you happen to forget my name, hazard a guess
I'm Lazarus resurrected, back like i left the oven lit
Old McDonald, if not exactly loving it
Get your nugget dipped in hot mustard and testify
I'm fly as the biplane that crop dusts you with pesticide
"Come check the age"
Getting older as the crow flies
I've looked at Joni Mitchell from both sides, I'm so wise
I've authored only fictions but I've told no lies
My libel turns to slander solely when it's vocalized
I'll bowdlerize you boldly til there's soap in your eyes
No surprise there
So use caution washing that nice hair
Or before you know it your scalp is itching and
There's powder up top like the alps in Switzerland
Yup, shampoo for my real friends, and so forth
You know the rest. I'm all washed up, it's time to go to bed
Aww shucks, you can buy my record
But you won't

I'm forty
"The big four oh"
I'm forty
"The big four oh"
I'm forty
"The big four oh"
I'm forty
"The big four oh"

Middle class
Middle american
Middle-schoolers
Muddle through their
Middle-life crisis
Just a little too
Disillusioned