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You smiled when you said your wife left you
Because that freed you up now to play
I didn't see how it really much mattered
By agreement she didn't stand in the way
Since you neither one could stand the other
It seemed obvious and long overdue
Seeing as how half the town fucked her
And the other half was fucking you
With pride you spoke of your gas-jockey
Your first pick-up as a free man
Nonchalantly you said she ignored you
Which I really could not understand
Then she started to pay some attention
After how many phone calls you made
So you went out and redid her bedroom
It's neat how some people are paid
So she left you for some nameless penis
And you were broken at first and quite sad
But it lead to the realization
That your substance use had got out of hand
You quit with the dope and the liquor
I couldn't believe how you sounded upbeat
The grass you said simply depressed you
And you implied that it did so to me
Then around Christmas she came back
- Her name to me still an unknown -
Her kids and yours would comingle
And you'd treat hers like they were your own
The next month you called me elated
Life was you said never this good
I thought that she sounded quite loathesome
But I kept quiet 'cause I thought that I should
You were happy and nothing else matters
A friend lets his friend enjoy
Whatever pleasure he can wring out of life
And a word can a friendship destroy
Then a month passed and I hadn't called you
To be fair though you didn't call me
We both of us have uninteresting lives
But what lives we have keep us both busy
I went into work one cold morning
Not pathetic fallacy it's just where I live
And another friend of yours told me
You'd taken the last breath this life had to give
Four days you'd decayed in your bedroom
and no one had noticed the loss
Most of us thought it was suicide
You'd decided to lay down your cross
But me I didn't quite buy that
Although you'd just turned 42
Even depressed you were happy
Felo-de-se just didn't ring true
When the coroner butcher got finished
He announced that your heart failed you
When I heard that I thought "I was right...
Shit I'm just six years younger than you"
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To Jen - At Night The City Comes On Like a Lover
