Drag myself from my bed   Around 20 past 6   Get my kids up make breakfast   1 egg 2 toast 3 weetabix      and as i sit down i look up   and your standing in the doorway sun at your back   in my old brown dressing gown   Well no one can love you more than i love you now, but i      Gotta go running for the bus   Coat flying and i try not to miss it this time   but the drivers waiting and thats strange   kids on the top deck quiet for a change   and theres no rain and no roadworks   in the bus lane and all my hurts run away   and im smiling as im punching in      the day i died was the best day of my life   the day i died was the best day of my life   tell my friends and my kids and my wife   everything will be alright   the day i died was the best day of my life      now the secretaries they got a smile for me   and the intray on my desks almost empty   I get a memo from executive Joe   saying Rob the gob is getting kicked out   for embezzling funds from the company account   and id be lying if i said i wasn't chuffed   cos i always hated rob   and now they'll probably offer me robs old job      and in the park at lunch   theres no whinos on my favorite bench   none of that drunk chatter none of that pissy stench   and the scrawny little pigeons with the gammy legs   decide to dive bomb from someone elses sandwich instead   and theres something about the city today   like all the colors conspire to overwhelm the grey   and this close to the fire i can feel no cold   but a rainbow halo around my soul      the day i died was the best day of my life   the day i died was the best day of my life   tell my friends and my kids and my wife   everything will be alright   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 cant be arsed   i begin to walk   and rush hour crowd seem to part like the red sea   and im stopping at the offy   20 cigarettes and a 6 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   the day i died was the best day of my life   tell my friends and my kids and my wife   everything will be alright   the day i died was the best day of my life            i got 99 red balloons drifting past my dying eyes