The Divine Comedy - Births, d**hs & Marriages lyrics

Listen very carefully I'll say this only once I haven't had a moment's peace In thirty-seven months Commitments squeezed like tinned sardines Into each precious hour But I'll survive 'cause where there's life There's generally a bar, line 'em up Births and d**hs and marriages Cabbages and kings Slugs and snails and e-mails Other precious things Cherubim and seraphic Go green with envy for All the births and d**hs and marriages Mortality affords Today a man got on my tram And wiped his sweaty neck And suddenly I saw how he Must look whilst having s** I felt like Henry, the sixth felt When he sang hysterically Watching the slaughter his supporters Thought he ought to see Births and d**hs and marriages Divorces, christenings Isn't life a roll of strife 'Round a splendid thing Cherubim and seraphic Continually do cry Life's wasted on these mortal ones So can we have a try? Yeah Here's a story 'bout a boy Ignored by all the cla** They broke his leg so he could get them All to sign his cast But instead of writing, "Get well soon" They wrote, "You s**" A dreadful story, I'm terribly sorry At least I made it up Births and d**hs and marriages Cabbages and kings Tops and tails and screams and wails Cheated in between What the hell? I'm fit and well I'm able and I'm willing I'm not from Venus or from Mars I'm from Ennisk**en So why watch the nation's 'Hundred Greatest Things In History' When the top spot goes by lot To Bohemian Rhapsody? You will never see a poor bookie The dealer always wins And there ain't no clocks 'round the Vegas slots Keep taxing your votes in Goodnight And may your God go with you