i guess what concerns me the most

we're getting any younger so we like to boast

are the cracks and fissures splintering our lovely lives

our acceptance of the shiny brand-new kitchen knives

so i have decided not to live that way

i still behave in public

and i don't confuse the night with day

and i'm better off please don't say

we know you'll never live without

you have no way to keep it out

i pray that i'll be saved

before too long

another two or three days

and i'll get it wrong

a patch of thistle

measuring our early grave

with waxy gleam

we stroll along the colonnade

and i have decided not to live that way

i still behave in public

and i don't confuse the night with day

and i'm better off please don't say

we know you'll never live without

you have no way to keep it out

i did just what they told me

i'm just trying to make my way

i did just what they told me