The 3 Minute Preview - Funky DL

I only have three minutes… oh man… Where is he?

Is that him?

I think that’s him… Yeah that’s him

Hey you???

Hey, hey you???

Psssss hey you???

Hey, hey, hey you?

Hey… (move out the way old man)

Ok, ok, ok… hey… hey… hey… come here… come here!

Would you believe I wrote these words when I was seventy-three?

Travelled in a time machine and brought them back to me

Minding my own business felt a tap on my shoulder

Turned around, it was me but forty-four years older

Took a long stare, walking stick, grey hair

Old raincoat but still liked to wear Nike Air

He said «DL I know you don’t believe what you see

But it’s me» I said who?

He said «you» I said me?

How could this be?

This the kind of thing you only

See on TV and you ain’t Marty Mcfly

You ain’t Doc Brown, he told me to «Shut up and sit down

I got a lot of things to tell you Dun so don’t make a sound

Only had 3 minutes so take my advice

And listen to me carefully cos I can’t say it twice

Cos this the point of time you gotta change up your life

See back in 2051 you got me paying the price

And it’s a hard life if the truth be told

And the world there is run by 14 year olds

They doing drug deals right under the Governments nose

Twelve year old girls that’s pregnant and smoke bones

And every other person walking round is a clone

And we all saw it coming and we knew it was wrong

But the world did nothing and time moved on

So I had to come back to you and give you this song»

Wait a minute, pause… I don’t believe you

You trying to say that ya me and this a preview?

Of what my life will be like as a old man?

Get with the program, is this a joke man?

«I told you shut up, listen and never interrupt»

But wait old man, what I’m supposed to do about us?

«Uh you can’t change the world but you can change your life

And it starts with the way you represent on the mic

Spit smarter, stronger, wiser, bolder» Why’s that?

«Or I’m who you’re gonna be when you’re older

A tired old man who ain’t got nothing to show for his life

You’re young enough to make things right

Take a old school beat like one from the nineties

Loop up a piano then make it sound grimey

And take this piece of paper of these words I wrote

And quote and make sure it sounds real dope, I gotta go»

Yo hold up, I got some questions to ask

You say my future is your distant past?

Well do I have kids and do I get married?

(Hmmmh)

With his benevolence he told me «That's irrelevant

Concentrate on being good willed and be a Gentleman

And keep the fire in your heart from dying

And don’t try to be the best but be the best at trying

You a young blood and got so much to do in your life

Make sure you know the difference between wrong and right»

Then he stood and looked me dead in the eye and told me

«When you old and looking in the mirror my man

I hope you never see me cos if you do then you failed

Your three minutes is up», then he vanished!