Just Die Already - Dan Bull

So I might open with a real light joke, right?

Real life is a real life rougelike

There’s no F5 key to rewind what we don’t like

So we spend most our time just hoping that we won’t die

So when I look around and see someone that’s elderly

I tell myself they’re either winning life or found a cheat

And yet they’re treated as some selfish freaks

Who’ve failed to leave

Who’ve somehow outstayed their welcome

With the power to breathe

Well, I’ve come around to tell them

Though I doubt it’s seldom seen

That their very presence is a present I’m proud to receive

This is for the OG’s, old geezers, fogeys

Bolted up in the old folks' home with no keys

It must be lonely up atop the holy escalator

But eventually we’re each the next to leave so check you later

Being senior seems to me between being tuckered out

And realising there’s so much to not give a fuck about

It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long

Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time

It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long

Lonely, lonely, lonely, such a lonely time

To the church-going folk, I hope you all pray for me

Because I’ve no hope of growing old gracefully

Life’s a fatal disease so I’m just waiting to see

What exciting places it might be taking me

I’m going to be an OAP that’s OP

Hope to be as old as Gandalf and Obi-Wan Kenobi

Living is so me, I’m going to get enough

Although I won’t reach the one hundred and twenty-seven club

Prejudice putting needless junk between us as the Devil does

The way we treat them is the treatment that’s ahead of us

Old people are previously youngsters who just levelled up

Being senior should be seen as something just incredible

It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long

Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time

It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long

Lonely, lonely, lonely, such a lonely time

It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long

Staying young 'til I become an ancient one’s my one desire

Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time

It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long

If you can’t feel the bass

Turn up your hearing aid and pump it higher

Lonely, lonely, lonely, such a lonely time

What you have to do is hang on through until the chumps retire

Then wack them in the trash

But dude, that attitude’s a dumpster fire

Passing youth’s a fact that you and I will come to cry at

And grapple with the facts that we refused confronting prior

There’s an infinite abyss in front of us but I am

Not the really kind of guy to just give and come so quietly

Succumb to higher creature comforts and just lie in piece

'Cause once I die, at least I’d like to be thunk of in high esteem

Nah, never mind, being in the freakin' riot police

I’ll speed at an entire fleet while screaming in the driver’s seat

'Til I’m a bleeding pile of meat, the kind that lions eat

Now darling, be a sweet and bring my slippers, I’ve got tired feet

It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long

Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time

It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long

Lonely, lonely, lonely, such a lonely time

Just because there’s nothing left to prove

Doesn’t mean there’s nothing left to do

But as seasons pass the fee increases for your season pass

'Til you’re a seasoned passenger of centuries who sees 'em pass

Put to pasture, don’t repeat the past, you need some greener grass

They plan to treat you as a weed in fields that need reseeding fast

I see you creeping of your peak productive beaten path

'Til even keeping up with previous achievements seems to drag

I don’t believe that each of us can be surpassing Pete &Bas

I mean it’s been an eon since you’ve even had a decent shag

Another day, they might discover me in glacial ice

Or maybe I’ll be vaporised to nada but a ray of light

Descendents won’t remember whether I’ve blue, gray or hazel eyes

But it’s irrelevant, man, it’s whatever fate decides

So I’ll just say this, mate, whatever may arise

I’ll stay alive 'til the day I die

It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long

Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time

It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long

Lonely, lonely, lonely, such a lonely time

It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long

Staying young 'til I become an ancient one’s my one desire

Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time

It’s been a long time, been a long time, been a long

If you can’t feel the bass

Turn up your hearing aid and pump it higher

Lonely, lonely, lonely, such a lonely time