![The 3 Minute Preview - Funky DL](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/3284757572013925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 09.09.2007
Record label: Washington Classics
Song language: English
The 3 Minute Preview |
I only have three minutes… oh man… Where is he? |
Is that him? |
I think that’s him… Yeah that’s him |
Hey you??? |
Hey, hey you??? |
Psssss hey you??? |
Hey, hey, hey you? |
Hey… (move out the way old man) |
Ok, ok, ok… hey… hey… hey… come here… come here! |
Would you believe I wrote these words when I was seventy-three? |
Travelled in a time machine and brought them back to me |
Minding my own business felt a tap on my shoulder |
Turned around, it was me but forty-four years older |
Took a long stare, walking stick, grey hair |
Old raincoat but still liked to wear Nike Air |
He said «DL I know you don’t believe what you see |
But it’s me» I said who? |
He said «you» I said me? |
How could this be? |
This the kind of thing you only |
See on TV and you ain’t Marty Mcfly |
You ain’t Doc Brown, he told me to «Shut up and sit down |
I got a lot of things to tell you Dun so don’t make a sound |
Only had 3 minutes so take my advice |
And listen to me carefully cos I can’t say it twice |
Cos this the point of time you gotta change up your life |
See back in 2051 you got me paying the price |
And it’s a hard life if the truth be told |
And the world there is run by 14 year olds |
They doing drug deals right under the Governments nose |
Twelve year old girls that’s pregnant and smoke bones |
And every other person walking round is a clone |
And we all saw it coming and we knew it was wrong |
But the world did nothing and time moved on |
So I had to come back to you and give you this song» |
Wait a minute, pause… I don’t believe you |
You trying to say that ya me and this a preview? |
Of what my life will be like as a old man? |
Get with the program, is this a joke man? |
«I told you shut up, listen and never interrupt» |
But wait old man, what I’m supposed to do about us? |
«Uh you can’t change the world but you can change your life |
And it starts with the way you represent on the mic |
Spit smarter, stronger, wiser, bolder» Why’s that? |
«Or I’m who you’re gonna be when you’re older |
A tired old man who ain’t got nothing to show for his life |
You’re young enough to make things right |
Take a old school beat like one from the nineties |
Loop up a piano then make it sound grimey |
And take this piece of paper of these words I wrote |
And quote and make sure it sounds real dope, I gotta go» |
Yo hold up, I got some questions to ask |
You say my future is your distant past? |
Well do I have kids and do I get married? |
(Hmmmh) |
With his benevolence he told me «That's irrelevant |
Concentrate on being good willed and be a Gentleman |
And keep the fire in your heart from dying |
And don’t try to be the best but be the best at trying |
You a young blood and got so much to do in your life |
Make sure you know the difference between wrong and right» |
Then he stood and looked me dead in the eye and told me |
«When you old and looking in the mirror my man |
I hope you never see me cos if you do then you failed |
Your three minutes is up», then he vanished! |
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