Who cares about the life of the saved
When we give birth it's quiet and brave
Being healthy, it's carcinogenic
And life's a game show called "It's epidemic"
Why aren't crocodiles vegetarian?
How come Atilla wasn't a honey?
Why didn't Hitler stay a librarian?
Why don't people find rock bands funny?
Life kills, life kills
Life's a sentence, read all about it
Who invented the businessman?
Who told bankers the meaning of loan?
Who gave us writer, and critic and fan?
Who told teenagers they've got a mind of their own?
I'm going down to the Waterside Workers Hotel
I'll wear women's clothing, and I'll yell:
"Here's a broken bottle, boys - send me to hell."
With life as an alternative, I might as well.
Life kills, life kills
Life's a sentence, read all about it
Life kills, life kills
Life's a sentence, read all about it
I'm dying; I'm dying; I'm dying; life kills!
You're dying the moment the sperm hits the ovum;
You're dying as a foetus, breathing though gills;
You're dying at birth; there ain't no supposin' -
You die all your life, and even Blind Freddy
Knows your children will die - true perspective! -
Your parents will die (if they're not dead already);
Life is just death, made retrospective.
You're trapped all your life, from the very first moment,
By your mother and father, who must've been mad
When they decided to add to their own entombment
By having a child, like their own Mum and Dad's
Mum and Dad's Mum and Dad's Mum and Dad's Mum and Dad.
Philip Larkin described it in a poem; I cried:
Families, he said, in Home Is So Sad,
"Are a joyous shot at how things ought to be fallen…
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