Delivered on October 9th
This is why I love twilight
I love being in the balance between light and dark
I love fading and I'm not ashamed of it
More life in a dry leaf than in a shoot
I am what the crow and the desk have in common
The second is why I live, the first is why I die
The wonder is in the unknown
The rope swings like a Polaroid
I sprint and come out of the shadows again
I love ghost towns
The echo that life leaves in every trace
I love the lashes that old age gives
Stretch marks on the skin, furrows on the face
Nobody is a teen forever
Time dyes me silver like the Silver Surfer
I'm following my drawing with Staedtler pencils
Of course I'm not the lead actor
Of course I don't live 'forever'
Strange love for every doctor
Who becomes one and three, Peter Sellers
They recommend a tablet
I swallow it and stay in the Buddha Bar-type chill
Memories escape grasp
Like stuffed animals with claws at an amusement park
I still write in a Moleskin
I wouldn't go back to the way I was even if I could
I have no interest in successes
I just want to move on and enjoy being old
Like electronic music
And I enjoy the time I have left
As always, out of the crowd
Press for silence, spacebar
The adjective that best fits is 'old'
Like electronic music
Everything I believe in is retired
Journey into a new dimension
To stay standing like Stonehenge
But with each passing year
It's an exam that I fail because I'm inattentive
So many faculties that I took for granted
I only realize now that I'm losing them
My body is a temple and that's fine
In the sense that it falls apart, Parthenon
But other moons, other trials await me
While I mix Arte 2 with Arte 9
The number of friends who actually died increases
I don't mean they don't post on social media anymore
I am increasingly at ease inside the cemetery
So much humanity, so little ferocity
It's not the gravestones that terrify me
But bear the pain as long as I can bear it
The nostalgia that grows inside like dead weight
Then he tears me apart like a xenomorph alien does
It felt like I had the whole world in my palm
Now I fantasize about the last act
I'll leave in pain, I'll leave in a flash
Will I go to a bed or to the stage?
For now I'm just going to go out of focus
Like classical physics in quantum times
And this young man takes a photo of me
Just because his dad has all my albums
What's the point of rapping at my age?
I've been wondering this since I was thirteen
Baby, don't ask me for opinions on your record
If I like it you're taking a big risk
I wish you San Siro, San Francisco
But I don't understand your stuff, I'm old
Like electronic music
And I enjoy the time I have left
As always, out of the crowd
Press for silence, spacebar
The adjective that best fits is 'old'
Like electronic music
Everything I believe in is retired
Journey into a new dimension
To stay standing like Stonehenge
But as an adult, I'm old
And maybe I've always been old