Births, Deaths and Marriages Songtext
von The Divine Comedy

Listen very carefully, I′ll say this only once
I haven't had a moment′s peace in thirty-seven months
Commitments squeeze like tinned sardines into each precious hour
But I'll survive 'cause where there′s life there′s generally a bar
Line 'em up!
Births and deaths and marriages
Births and deaths and marriages
Cabbages and kings
Slugs and snails and emails
And other precious things
Cherubim and seraphim
Go green with envy for
All the births and deaths and marriages
Mortality affords
Today a man got on my tram and wiped his sweaty neck
And suddenly I saw how he must look whilst having sex
I felt like Henry VI felt when he sang hysterically
Watching the slaughter his supporters thought he ought to see
Births and deaths and marriages
Divorces, christenings


Isn′t life a rather splendid thing?
Cherubim and seraphim
Continually do cry
Life's wasted on these mortal ones
Can we have a try?
Here′s a story 'bout a boy ignored by all the class
He broke his leg so he could get them all to sign his cast
But instead of writing "Get well soon" they wrote "You suck!"
A dreadful story, I′m terribly sorry, at least I made it up
Births and deaths and marriages
Cabbages and kings
Tops and tails and streams and whales
Cheated in between
What the hell, I'm fit and well
I'm able and I′m willing
I′m not from Venus or from Mars
I'm from Enniskillen
So why watch the nation′s hundred greatest things in history
When the dark spot goes by love to Bohemian Rhapsody?
You will never see a poor bookie, the dealer always wins
And there ain't no clocks round the
Vegas slots, keep texting your votes in
Good night, and may your God go with you