24-Emmy the Great

[00:00.63]you are watching a programme for exactly an hour [00:06.01]all of these hours they will add up to a day [00:10.85]you will sit there till they're done but there are 24 to play [00:15.69]there'll be rims around your eyelids by the 7th or the 8th [00:21.26]but if you go to sleep tonight you will be older when you wake [00:30.80]and you say one man is the parachute [00:34.09]and the other is the knife that cuts the brake [00:38.73] [00:42.15]first we were born then we ran slowly out of luck [00:46.59]you are still not charles bukowski and i am not diane cluck [00:51.64]and i would suck the life from you if there was any left to suck [00:56.68]and i would love you if you told me there was something there to love [01:01.86]i would marry you for money [01:04.59]i would marry you for money [01:07.25]i would marry you for money or for luck [01:12.16]i would marry you for money [01:14.97]but i don't suppose you'll ever have enough [01:19.13] [01:22.24]well the man on the screen he has done more in a minute [01:27.41]than you have achieved in your whole entire life [01:32.66]when you finally realise i was the best thing you had in it [01:37.58]we'll be closing up your eyelids on the bed or once you die [01:42.94]and i'll be sorry if it happens to you [01:45.72]sorry if it happens to you [01:48.51]sorry if it happens to you but [01:52.74]i guess if one man is the cancer [01:55.68]then his death is just the knife that makes the cut [02:00.19] [02:03.38]24 for every year that we have slept [02:09.08]day by day into the neck of the abyss [02:13.28]and i am 24 today i don't believe i'll sit [02:18.69]through another year of this [02:20.68]while you are sewing up your lips [02:23.79]and i'll be sorry that you happened to me [02:27.04]sorry that you happened to me [02:29.57]sorry that you happened to me but [02:33.87]they say that one man is the accident [02:37.50]the other is the hand that stops the blood [02:44.37]and i am looking for the other one [02:48.00]the hand that stops the blood [02:52.57]