terminal disease

sort of optimized for a live performance ... Its history is in my blog, starting here: http://lyrics-in-progress.over-blog....-22124278.html
There is a tune as well (a bit distorted, I recorded it in a hurry so as to remember the melody)

And this is the text:


you took me by surprise tonight
I don't recall what I said the other day
maybe I didn't get you right
why don't you just try seeing it my way

though we're in our prime
we must not waste our time
and just await the chime

the last of nature's mysteries
life's a terminal disease
there's just one chance that you must seize
life's a terminal disease

try not to reason pro and cons
it can't be wrong to have a little fun
why don't you just come along
never quit before you have begun

though we're in our prime
we must not waste our time
and just await the chime

the last of nature's mysteries
life's a terminal disease
there's just one chance that you must seize
life's a terminal disease

though we're in our prime
we must not waste our time
and just await the chime

t's true for flowers and for bees
life's a terminal disease
for the grass and for the trees
life's ...
for the beans and for the peas
life's ...
for elephants and for the fleas
life's ...
for Navajos as for Crees
life's ...
on land and on the seven seas
life's ...
in the heat or at the freeze
life's ...
enjoy the sun or a fresh breeze
life's ...
no way you can prolong the lease
life's ...
try to live your life in peace
('cause) life's ...
it's true so everyone agrees
life's ...
ask the living or the deceased
life's ...
now raise your glasses if you please
life's ...

Awesome, i love the first chorus in particular. I can just picture this going along to some cheesy ska music. Good reading, look forward to more.

Thank you!

Did you mean the 'chime' in the bridge? That particular idea seems to recur - must be my age. Well, it actually could be the very next chime in this song, in another song called "Vanity" it's definitely the last:

...
Vanity, you look forlorn
you've had all the chances a human life provides
never you seized them, instead you swept them aside
you can't call back your youth
you can't fight off the truth
your fight against time's been lost from the beginning
when the last bell chimes you'll know there is no winning
Vanity, why should you scorn

Or if you refer to the A-A-A ... rhyming instead of A-B-A-B or similar, you might like "summer time", which I will post right now.