you are watching a programme for exactly an hour   all of these hours they will add up to a day   you will sit there till they're done but there are 24 to play   there'll be rims around your eyelids by the 7th or the 8th   but if you go to sleep tonight you will be older when you wake   and you say one man is the parachute and the other is the knife that cuts the brake      first we were born then we ran slowly out of luck   you are still not charles bukowski and i am not diane cluck   and i would suck the life from you if there was any left to suck   and i would love you if you told me there was something there to love   i would marry you for money   i would marry you for money   i would marry you for money or for luck   i would marry you for money but i don't suppose you'll ever have enough      well the man on the screen he has done more in a minute   than you have achieved in your whole entire life   when you finally realise i was the best thing you had in it   we'll be closing up your eyelids on the bed or once you die   and i'll be sorry if it happens to you   sorry if it happens to you   sorry if it happens to you but   i guess if one man is the cancer then his death is just the knife that makes the cut      24 for every year that we have slept   day by day into the neck of the abyss   and i am 24 today i don't believe i'll sit   through another year of this while you are sewing up your lips   and i'll be sorry that you happened to me   sorry that you happened to me   sorry that you happened to me but   they say that one man is the accident the other is the hand that stops the blood   and i am looking for the other one i'm looking for the blade to make the cut   oh if one man is the accident i'm looking for a hand to stop the blood