The Day I Died

Album: All Night Cinema (2009)
Charted: 11
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  • Drag myself from my bed
    Around 20 past 6
    Get my kids up make breakfast
    1 egg 2 toast 3 weetabix

    And as I sit down I look up
    And your standing in the doorway sun at your back
    In my old brown dressing gown
    Well no one can love you more than I love you now, but I

    Gotta go running for the bus
    Coat flying and I try not to miss it this time
    But the drivers waiting and that's strange
    Kids on the top deck quiet for a change
    And there's no rain and no roadworks
    In the bus lane and all my hurts run away
    And I'm smiling as I'm punching in

    The day I died was the best day of my life
    The day I died was the best day of my life
    Tell my friends and my kids and my wife
    Everything will be alright
    The day I died was the best day of my life

    Now the secretaries they got a smile for me
    And the in tray on my desks almost empty
    I get a memo from executive Joe
    Saying Rob the gob is getting kicked out
    For embezzling funds from the company account
    And id be lying if I said I wasn't chuffed
    'Cause I always hated rob
    And now they'll probably offer me robs old job

    And in the park at lunch
    There's no whinos on my favorite bench
    None of that drunk chatter none of that pissy stench
    And the scrawny little pigeons with the gammy legs
    Decide to dive bomb from someone elses sandwich instead
    And there's something about the city today
    Like all the colors conspire to overwhelm the grey
    And this close to the fire I can feel no cold
    But a rainbow halo around my soul

    The day I died was the best day of my life
    The day I died was the best day of my life
    Tell my friends and my kids and my wife
    Everything will be alright
    The day I died was the best day of my life

    So I leave work get to the high street and I miss my bus
    Should I wait for another no I can't be arsed
    I begin to walk
    And rush hour crowd seem to part like the red sea
    And I'm stopping at the offy
    20 cigarettes and a 6 pack to relax me
    And as I cross back over the street
    I guess I never saw that taxi
    I guess I never saw that taxi

    The day I died was the best day of my life
    The day I died was the best day of my life
    Tell my friends and my kids and my wife
    Everything will be alright
    The day I died was the best day of my life

    Now I got 99 red balloons floating in the summer sky
    I got 99 red balloons drifting past my dreamy eyes
    I got 99 red balloons floating in the summer sky
    I got 99 red balloons drifting past my dying eyes Writer/s: JACK CHRISTOPHER ALLSOPP, JULES PORRECA
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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