Loudon Wainwright III - Older Than My Old Man Now lyrics

rate me

If I remain still

If I am alone and silent long enough to hear the sound of my own blood

or Breathing or digestion about the rustling of leaves or the whirr of refrigerator

My father is likely to turn up

He just arrives unbidden in the long running film of my thoughts

Like Hitchcock in his pictures

And he looks for all these 40 plus years of disembodiment

Much like himself big and sandy haired withfreckles at the back of his hands

Perhaps a little more diffident the way it holds himself than I have remembered

He doesn’t stay long and as far as I can tell his visit has no message

Yet years of therapy have left me and make the dark whistling claim that he's finally dead and gone

My father who died when I was seventeen continues to be my principle ghost

A lifelong eminence grise and only my own end will finish it.

Older than my old man now

He died at 63 that is way too young

Now you got to feed me now you got to need me

Now I feel like a faithless son

Sixty four is awful old

You don’t know what can happen next

hey, I am older than my old man ever was

I'm trying to keep it in context

Yes I am older than my old man

His father died at 43

From now it's all gravy

I got 20 years more I guess we have to wait and see

I wasn’t sure the day will come

I have been living underneath his thumb

But I don’t feel so free I don’t even feel like me

Now that I don’t have no race to run

I am older than my old man now

I guess that means I kicked his ass

Just that you have survived, that don't mean you feel alive and your demise will come to pass

Nobody's sure exactly why

Everybody has to die

Still it comes this as quite a blow no when you got to go

And the world is gonna pass you by

I am older than my old man

I am older than my old man ever was

I try to keep it in context

I am older than my old man ever was

I am guilty I've outlived my ex

Thanks to hughie521324 for correcting these lyrics