Croak - The Tiger Lillies, Justin Bond

Happy ever-afters they are just a joke

Forever is a long time it will go up in smoke

There are no happy endings just a few happy times

In youth we are immortal then shocked by our decline

How slowly does the penny drop we’re victims of a joke

Quite often realisation is just before we croak

There are no happy ever-afters the stuff of fairy tales

How slowly does it dawn on us that we are born to fail

That’s when we tend to realise what a waste of time

Like actors in the worst of plays pointless every line

How slowly does the penny drop we’re victims of a joke

Quite often realisation is just before we croak

Well often it is praised the sanctity of life

A pointless aimless exercise in loss suffering and strife

Well when you leave this world I hope you’ve had a laugh

'Cause someone’s played a trick on you they fucked you up the arse

How slowly does the penny drop we’re victims of a joke

Quite often realisation is just before we croak

It might be in the worst of taste this god’s little joke

But now I have realised it I think it’s time to croak