There are mornings
When you have to lift the sun
Dawn broke
Without due warning
That’s no way to get things done
All day you’re climbing on elbows
Elbows that sweat and swear
Climbing on up, who the hell knows
What is so great up there?
For there are times
When you are living the dream
And there are times
When you are floating like cream
And there are times
When you are boxing in treacle
With a grizzly bear
All treacle in his hair
That bear don’t care.
Come the evening
Watch the sunset with a frown
Sun’s stuck
It’ll take a bunch of us
To pull the damn thing down.
All night you think of mistakes you’ll
Never know how to fix
Red-eyed-and-bushy-tailed wakeful
Morpheus playing tricks
For there are times
When there are no right answers
And there are times
You have to do as the man says
And there are times
When you are boxing in treacle
With a grizzly bear
All treacle in his hair
That bear don’t care
He doesn’t care if you despair
He doesn’t even know you’re there
He’s just punching the air
For there are times
You miss your landing
And there are times
When rubber bands sing
And there are times
When you’re left standing
In your underwear
Stuck waiting for that bear
Who doesn’t care.
It’s twelve o’clock
I think the sun is doing fine
Big ball
Of orange fire
Rolling smoothly down the line.
All day you’re steadily swimming
Swimming through cups of tea
Feeling quite good now you’re winning
Fighting the need to pee
For there are times
When you are living the dream
And there are times
When you are floating like cream
And there are times
When you are boxing in treacle
With a grizzly bear
All treacle in your hair
But you don’t care.
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