The Day I Died

Dragged myself from my bed around 20 past 6 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 x2 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 dine from 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 x2 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 x2 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