Willie Faulk - Father Time Lyrics

I know my time has
Come and gone it's apparent
Still I'm out here dropping bombs
As a parent
Rolls Royce and McLaren's
Don't look right with
Car seats in the mirrors
Somehow they factor
What the rapper as steering
As if I can't switch gears
I got the 40s forty-something
Tell me it's weird
Like it's about the age
And not about spirit
Social media algorithms
They make it hard to appear
But those who hear me
Know Im one to revere
Guess you could say
That I'm old school
Grew up getting whippings
And soul foods
I wrote my lyrics out
Like it's old news
Papers the ink would stain
On the loose leaf
Like way before protools
Audacity and stick mics
Were go-to's
Does that make me old who
I been around the block
Never got signed
But still I'm at your throat
Like I'm prime time
Wear shades in my interviews
My mama raised me right
I'm a light
But being good
And going virals a fine line
So who do I speak to
I eat through
Every beat that I need to
It's lethal at least you
Can see that I bleed through
The speakers the ink chew
Like a shark in the deep blue
Catch the wave and get a taste
Let me feed you
Man I been dope since college
Used my teens to carve a dream
And abolish any hate
That came my way to acknowledge
Spit shine and a polish
While you was at the party
Turning up bottles
I'm in the dorm room writing up novels
I'm talking Nobel piece prize
Mixtape series drop three times
My translations been on repeat
And ever since I was knee high
Been writing poetry in my free time
And if you know me pull up a seat
Cause I been all about family and love
Guess I been the runner up
I ain't got me a plug
Rep a set and throw it up
I been true to who I was
From the jump
And if you knew me from adolescence
You know that I've been aging
Like a bottle of bourbon
Father Time it ain't no closing the curtains
Open minds will always know
That I'm working
One thing is for certain
I ain't have to become famous in person
For you to know that
I'm the one with the verses
Pick any body you heard of
I can hold my own
My features a burden
Collaborate and end up catching a murder
So many bodies on my time line
You could say that I'm multi-versal
He who remains
But I ain't trying to hurt you
It's just the way that I write it
Stuck in my ways
It's like the clash of the titans
Every time I drop the mic you invited
Cause on these beats
I'm a tyrant
Just know I ain't dropping
Hits to go viral
It's just in me
It's the way that I'm wired
Don't think I'll ever retire
Keep pushing play
And I'll keep telling my story
Never was about the
Fame and the glory
Outlast the ones who before me
Cause y'all can't do it
Like I do it's annoying
So till next time rewind my tape
And enjoy it
Father Time