Lyric

Everybody talks about how old they were when it happened

Eighteen? Cool

Twenty? Okay

Twenty-three?

"Damn, dude, what took you so long?"

But hold on

I've got a problem with this system

Don't count from the day you were born

That makes no sense

A five-year-old isn't waiting for anything

He's watching cartoons

His clock hasn't even started yet

Leave him out of this

The clock shouldn't start at birth

It starts when you wake up

You know exactly what I mean

That's when the timer starts

COUNT THE YEARS!

Don't tell me the age

Do the math

How long were you actually waiting?

He woke up at ten

Lost it at twenty

That's ten years of waiting

I woke up at fifteen

Lost it at twenty-three

That's eight

SO WHO WAS LATE?!

You see what I'm saying?

Twenty-three sounds late

Until you check the numbers

That guy spent ten years waiting

I only spent eight

Two years faster

Technically

So don't come at me with

"Twenty-three? Seriously?"

Show me your data

When did you wake up?

When did you lose it?

Subtract

Then we'll talk

COUNT THE YEARS!

Age means nothing without context

Ten to twenty

That's ten years

Fifteen to twenty-three

That's eight years

The numbers don't lie

I beat that guy by two whole years

Put some respect on my name

But come on

I know the truth

Being ten and still waiting

Being twenty-three and still waiting

Those are not the same thing

At ten, you've got all the time in the world

At twenty-three, every year hits different

The pressure's different

The waiting feels different

Yeah

I know

So forget the math

Forget the waiting years

Ten years

Eight years

Who cares?

If we're being real

Earlier is better

Yeah

I said it

And you want proof?

Look at me

I made up a whole system

Did the math

Defended it like my life depended on it

And then

I WROTE A WHOLE DAMN SONG ABOUT IT!

Yeah!

Yeah

I think that proves it