24

You are watching a program for exactly an hour
All of these hours they will add up to a day
You will sit there till they're done
Now there are 24 to play

And there are rims around your eyeballs
By the seventh or the eighth
But if you go to sleep tonight
You will be older when you wake

And you say one man is a parachute
And another is the knife cuts the brakes.

First we were born
Then we ran slowly out of luck
And you are still not Charles Bukowski
And I am not Diane Cluck

And I would suck the life from you
If there was any left to suck
And I would love you if you told me
There was something there to love

And I'd marry you for money
I would marry you for money
I would marry you for money if it stuck
I would marry you for money
But I don't suppose you'll ever have enough

Man on the screen
He has done more in a minute
Than you have achieved
in your whole entire life

When you realize
I was the best thing you had init
We'll be closing up your eyelids
On the bed or once you die

And I'll be sorry if it happens to you
Sorry if it happens to you
Sorry if it happens to you but

They say one life is the cancer
And another is the blade that makes the cut

24 for every year that we have slipped
Day by day into the neck of the abyss

And I am twenty four today
I don't believe I'll sit
Through another year of this
While you are sewing up your lips

And I'll be sorry that you happened to me
Sorry that you happened to me
Sorry that you happened to me but

They say that one man is the accident
The other is the hand that stops the blood
And I am looking for the other one
For the hand to stop the blood