If the sadness of life makes you tired And the failures of man make you sigh You can look to the time soon arriving When this noble experiment winds down and calls it a day Time has come now to stop being human Time to find a new creature to be Be a fish or a weed or a sparrow For the earth has grown tired and all of your time has expired All the gardens are sprouting with flowers All the treetops are bursting with birds And the people all know that it's over They lay down all their airs and they hang up their tiresome words