Birth and Death - Alan Watts

Been turned around till I'm upside down Been all at sea until I've drowned And I've felt torture, I've felt pain Just like that film with Michael Caine I've been abused and I've been confused And I've kissed Margaret Thatcher's shoes And I been high and I been low And I don't know where to go Birth, school, work, death Birth, school, work, death And heroin was the love you gave From the cradle to the grave Boys and girls don't understand The devil makes work for idle hands I cut myself but I don't bleed 'Cause I don't get what I need Doesn't matter what I say Tomorrow's still another day Birth, school, work, death Birth, school, work, death Yeah, I've been high and I've been low And I don't know where to go I'm living on the never, never, never This time it's gonna be forever I'll live and die don't ask me why I wanna go to paradise And I don't need your sympathy There's nothing in this world for me Birth, school, work, death Birth, school, work, death Birth, school, work, death Birth, school, work, death Birth, school, work, death Birth, school, work, death

I'll make my own way; I'll make my own way Don't bother counting on me, loving me, just act like I'm gone Well this sorry joker joke, it's all we really need There's nothing that I need Too late and too bad, I'm stuck feeling bad Without you, I'm a mess, without you, you just don't know This is really not a joke; you're all I really need, you're all I really need And I'm just so bored of wasting my time Love and death always on my mind And I'm just so sick of wasting my time Love and death always on my mind I'll make my own way; I'll make my own way Don't bother counting on me, loving me, just act like I'm gone Oh, this sorry joke, a joke, it's all we really need There's nothing that I need And I'm just so bored of wasting my time Love and death always on my mind And I'm just so sick of wasting my time Love and death always on my mind

Driving you home in my car I say I'll see you tomorrow We both know tomorrow's too late for us The afterlove We've been like one from the start But we've been growing apart Ashes to ashes, dust to dust The afterlove This is the end, but it can't be the end for us If there's another life when our time is up Oh, I'll be waiting, hoping, praying You'll come back as you, darling And I'll come back as me in the afterlove For a new chance, a new try, and a new life You'll come back as you, darling And I'll come back as me in the afterlove A different world, different place Your same old soul, different face We'll meet again, you mark my words In the afterlove 'Til then, go find someone else That makes you happy as hell Just don't forget who loved you first In the afterlove This is the end, but it can't be the end for us If there's another life when our time is up Oh, I'll be waiting, hoping, praying You'll come back as you, darling And I'll come back as me in the afterlove For a new chance, a new try, and a new life You'll come back as you, darling And I'll come back as me in the afterlove Oh, oh Oh, oh Oh, oh You'll come back as you, darling And I'll come back as me in the afterlove As this life passes by, know that you're on my mind We'll meet again on the other side Oh, I'll be waiting, hoping, praying You'll come back as you, darling And I'll come back as me in the afterlove