Old Guard Lyrics

Since I was young my dad had talked to me

Like any nigga off the street

He wasn't cheating me

'Cause that's how niggas treated me

Honestly I think he knew that's what I'd go through

I only seen him here and there

Went through it when he wasn't there

Did some things he did without ever seeing him do it

Through genetics I guess I wasn't ill prepared

Shit I'm your first and probably grew to be your illest kid

I got to laugh because not literally

Got your big ass head

'Cause bitch I get cocky like a light skin

With green eyes and a pocket full of green guys

And thank you for the pass by insight

That's the shit that stuck

Reason that nobody can treat me like I'm on a crutch

You was gone when I was young like you drive trucks

Wasn't your fault sorry it took me

Until I was old enough to realize

Been through shit that damn near made the news

Make you realize how this system treated you

And how it can get weird for guys

Especially ones that look

That look like me

That shit can make you vicious

It's crazy I became a victim of someone that I had treated right

But everything is circumstantial

Tried to turn my situation

Into something I could handle

Because a wise man once told me

And as far as I know

That's just something that a man do

I wasn't taught to be a bitch or man handle

That shit happen to the best of us

Humbled him make them like the rest of us

But I ain't give up

Did a little different and try for what

I thought the difference was

Even moved up out the hood

Planning for the greater good

Kind of irrelevant but since we not speaking

Want you to know we alright

Hope you doing decent

Man I miss the mischief that I could get into

When I would quote on quote visit

Every other weekend

You know I can't lie and I can't pretend

By the way Legend's really good at speaking

Another baby on the way

We going to name him Zen

Congratulations you a grand daddy again

We all know just how life's long decline goes

Seem so surprised when it goes just as described

Loved ones decline close visit keep our eyes closed

Man it's fucking wild just how fast the fucking mind goes

When structure gives way to interruptions and repetition

When it's vague recollection without true recognition

Until memories are reduced to an ever repeating slide show

Of various fractured moments behind an

Ever increasing white snow

Adjust the antenna it ain't 2009

Got me all in the mirror now

Like what am I looking at

She got some art to show

Like what am I looking at

He got some art for sure

Like what am I looking at

Like what am I looking at

What am I looking at