Just Jack - The Day I Died lyrics
[Just Jack - The Day I Died lyrics]
Get my kids up, make breakfast
One egg, two toast, three Weetabix
And as I sit down, I look up
And you’re standing in the doorway
Sun at your back
In my old brown dressing gown
Well no one could love you more
Than I love you now
But, I gotta go, runnin’ for the bus
Coat flyin’ and I’m tryin’ not
To miss it this time
But the driver’s waitin’ and that’s strange
Kids on the top deck - quiet for a change
And there’s no rain and no road works
In the bus lane and all my hurts run away
And I’m smilin’ as I’m punchin’ in
The day I died was the best day of my life
Tell my friends and my kids and my wife
Everything will be all right
The day I died was the best day of my life
Secretaries have got a smile for me
And the in tray on my desk’s almost empty
I get a memo from executive Joe
Saying Rob-the-Gob is getting kicked out
For embezzlin’ funds from the company account
And I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t chuffed
‘Cause, I always hated Rob
And now they’ll probably offer
Me Rob’s old job
And in the park at lunch there’s
No winos on my favourite bench
None of that drunk chatter
None of that pissy stench
And the scrawny little pigeons
With their gammy legs
Decide to dive-bomb someone
Else’s sandwich instead
And there’s something about the city today
Like all the colours conspired
To overwhelm the grey
And this close to the fire I can feel no cold
With a rainbow halo around my soul
The day I died was the best day of my life
Tell my friends and my kids and my wife
Everything will be all right
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 the rush hour crowd seems to
Part like the red sea
And I’m stoppin’ at the offy
20 cigarettes and a six pack to relax me
And as I cross back over the street
I guess I never saw that taxi
The day I died was the best day of my life
Tell my friends and my kids and my wife
Everything will be all right
The day I died was the best day of my life