Gold In Timbuktu-K'naan

[ti:Gold In Timbuktu] [ar:K'naan] [al:Country, God Or The Girl] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.75]When I am old and lonely [00:03.81]Would you still be there for me [00:07.06]Cause now I have all of my strength [00:10.19]And you have all your beauty [00:13.44]When you're gold in Timbuktu [00:16.81]Will I still come look for you [00:20.00]Let's swim in the deep end [00:23.31]Make it warm that we can [00:26.31]For you for me [00:31.63] [00:32.81]Buried in the deep end [00:36.19]Life is one big weekend [00:38.57] [00:39.13]Youth [00:40.32]One day you have it and then [00:42.38]Poof [00:43.44]It's gone with the wind [00:45.06]It's a kin to the end [00:46.69]And no matter how you fight it [00:48.06]How you light it how you write it [00:49.69]Time is the pen out of ink [00:51.50] [00:52.11]Poof and I'm a living proof [00:54.62]I used to have it all young and uncoof [00:57.43] [00:58.00]These days I hear on everything on delay [01:01.25]Cause I wear an air piece just to hear what he say [01:03.86] [01:04.48]When my son visit I don't know why I get livid [01:08.05]Maybe I'm jealous of his age [01:09.68]My memories vivid I was just like him [01:12.61]Young like him [01:14.24]Had a mouth on me a tongue like him [01:17.55]But now I'm feeling much weaker [01:20.43]Closest thing to my heart is a mandatory gripper [01:23.30] [01:23.92]And my eyes ain't what they used to be either [01:27.18]But here's me singing promise from la Vita [01:30.24]When I am old and lonely [01:33.25]Would you still be there for me [01:36.66]Cause now I have all of my strength [01:39.84]And you have all your beauty [01:42.91]When you're gold in Timbuktu [01:46.19]Will I still come look for you [01:49.50]Let's swim in the deep end [01:52.63]Make it warm that we can [01:55.75]For you for me [02:00.95] [02:02.26]Buried in the deep end [02:05.58]Life is one big weekend [02:08.01] [02:08.64]Push [02:09.58]One day you coming and then [02:11.14] [02:11.95]Woosh [02:12.89]You'd be surprised how easy is [02:14.64]To be enticed and feasting life [02:16.52]Without the least of dreams suffice [02:17.93]So watch it fly fear to flight [02:19.43]So I'm busy chasing a decent size [02:21.32]Tush and I ain't never been a wuss [02:25.03]Have more arms than an octopus [02:27.84]Those days I never thought of old age [02:31.09]I never thought I'd see the hair in my nose gray [02:34.28]But life goes on how ironic [02:37.53]If I could do it over I'd probably smoke chronic [02:40.66]But still follow the footsteps of prophet Mohammed [02:43.85]I probably turn every lie that I told honest [02:47.03]I be an equal terrorist I give the middle finger to my therapist [02:51.57]And flush my sedatest [02:53.01]I'll have a baby with a feminist and name him sexist [02:55.99] [02:56.68]Life's a contradiction on my check list [02:59.80]When I am old and lonely [03:02.80]Would you still be there for me [03:05.57] [03:06.20]Cause now I have all of my strength [03:09.38]And you have all your beauty [03:12.01] [03:12.57]When you're gold in Timbuktu [03:15.82]Will I still come look for you [03:18.60] [03:19.16]Let's swim in the deep end [03:22.29]Make it warm that we can [03:25.29]For you for me [03:30.66] [03:31.97]Buried in the deep end [03:34.97]Life is one big weekend [03:37.47] [03:38.16]Gold In Timbuktu - K'naan