Life is a Joke

Life is a Joke (Wonderful You)  -  Pan Thistle, 2013          music video

Life's a hitch, you're getting warm
It took some thirty years
Then you realise, the plan was drawn by the Masterminds
You're nothing but a pawn
 
They sent you to school, they sent you to college
and you learnt to play it cool and got a promotion
Thought you were smart, life was a fjord
Cruising upstream to the top of a world
 
But you were framed, set up, you were trapped
you thought life was a joke
Now the joke's on you
And it's the same set up, it's a fad
you thought life was a joke
laughing at you
 
On and on and on you went around, beating the old joke drum,
blowing your own horn, brag about how you live life to the max,
having no regrets. Are they forreal or forgets...? keeping the jive alive!
You had downtown, uptown, cool and bright funky town right at your feet.
They even called you 'Lord Jubilee!' Ha! Did they understand? did they what?
You dined with Lily, flirted with Bertie, a new code becoming style,
sweet talking, dirty... Scorn claws were out to get you and that dandy smile
you feigned when the bank manager said: 'Always here to help, take out a bigger loan!'
 
Ha ha ha..
That will be all by now 'Jubilee', your credit ain't good,
and no one is laughing with your LIFE joke no more
They all laugh at you, man
Nobody but you, just you, wonderful you
 
When the lights are out, you go down to the quarry
for a night swim, time to contemplate
a turn in the journey where it all began
where it's going to end
 
- You be free again!
 
First they run you dry then put their brakes on you
They say you bit off more than you could chew
Ah! it's the final stage in the process of injecting
a vial of fear in servants like you
 
You were framed, set up, you were trapped
you thought life was a joke
Now the joke's on you
And it's the same set up, it's a fad
you thought life was a joke
laughing at you
- A mere assumption overrode your sanction
- A turn in the journey where it all began
where it's going to end
 
You were framed, set up, you've been had
you thought life was a joke
Now you choke on the blue
- Devised a crime for your state of mind
- A turn in the journey where it all began
where it's going to end
 
And it's the same set up,
you thought life was a joke
we're laughing at you
- Threw 'Happy Old Age' in 'The Game of Life'
- A turn in the journey where it all began
where it's going to end
 
Just you, nobody but you, wonderful you
- Then you took some time to contemplate
- A turn in the journey where it all began
where it's going to end

To be free... Free again!