People My Age by John Gorka

People my age have started lookin’ gross
I cannot say all, and I shouldn’t say most
I’ve seen ’em in the grocery, I’ve seen ’em up close
People my age have started lookin’ gross

People my age are showing some wear
There’s holes where their teeth was and their heads have gone bare
Their brains are shrinking, faces sinking into fat
And as for the mirror, we won’t be looking into that

People my age have started looking gross
Maybe not in Colorado, or up the Silicon coast
Back in Pennsylvania, I’d eat scrapple on toast
Those were my first steps on the road to looking gross

People my age are looking over-ripe
Some are getting operations to tighten up what ain’t tight
What gravity’s ruined, they try to fix with a knife
What’s pleasant in the darkness is plain scary in the light

John Gorka
(singer/songwriter)
This is a song of his, so it may not ‘read’ as well as if it would with you knowing the tune.