By Stan White & Lou Porzilli
Ó 1999
Billy:
I’m the oldest man alive. Yeah.
Thought I’d done it all before.
You won’t believe what I’ve seen.
I’m the oldest man alive
They said we had to change our ways.
I took them seriously.
I can’t stay out here any more.
I want to see sweet Mother Earth.
I’m goin’ home. I’m going home again.
I’m crossing all these miles.
All those light years that have passed me by
Hopin’ it’s better this time.
I’m the oldest man alive
Could be better, could be worse.
I’m the oldest man
But I’m coming home.
I’m coming home again.
I’m coming home again.
I am the oldest man in the world
And of course I don’t look my age.
There’s no one who’s been around so long
You’ll never understand my rage.
I left the Earth in ’93
Not that year, ten centuries before.
Now I’m back once more and it’s clearly worse.
I was really hoping for so much more.
Crowd:
He’s the oldest man alive
And he still looks twenty-five
He’s the oldest man alive
Does he still have the will to survive?
Friends from the past come to my mind.
Their faces, still haunting me now.
There was no one like you, in all my past.
I should have stayed, but I didn’t know how.
Time is sliding away from me
As I travel from star to star.
I’ve been a hero, a rogue and at last
Seems I never should have traveled so far.
Crowd:
He’s the oldest man alive
And he still looks twenty-five
He’s the oldest man alive
Does he still have the will to survive?
Billy:
Look at me. I’m Billy. Try to feel something for me.
Cause I can’t feel anything.
No I won’t feel anything
I don’t want to feel anything
For the people that I need.
I can’t help what I need.
Crowd:
He’s the oldest man alive
And he still looks twenty-five
He’s the oldest man alive
Does he still have the will to survive?
He’s the oldest man alive
He’s the oldest man alive
He’s the oldest man alive
He’s the oldest man alive
He’s the oldest man alive
Billy:
I’m the oldest man alive
I’m the oldest man alive
I’m the oldest man
I’m the oldest man
Could I be Saint Germaine or
Is it just my cryogenic brain, oh.
I’m the oldest man
I’m the oldest man
Older than your blackest fryin’ pan
I’m older than Charlie Chan
I’m the oldest man
I’m the oldest man
You know I’m older than Al Capone.
I’m even older than the Rollin’ Stones
I’m the oldest man
I’m the oldest man
Dute, dute, dute, dute, dute, dutey doo
Dip, dip , dip,…