My wife's 50th Birthday
We're drinking cocktails
Vermouth, Bols blue
Amaretto and lemonade.
There is a name for it, but
I don't know what it is
And I really don't care
So we're drinking
Smoking cigarettes
And wondering about time.
Wow! I can't believe that
Karen is fifty, and how is it
That I can be forty - five.
It's so ******* weird
Growing older, I don't really
Feel any different from when
I was 25
A little more tired, a little more
Cynical
But basically still me
Effectively still a child
I always just assumed
That once you hit 35
You'd feel automatically
Grown Up, and know
How to survive
Not only that but
How to thrive
A professional career
And a beautiful wife
Just like the lives you see on T.V.
I expected someone to do that for me
My own stupid naivety
But no, I've got to take control
Of my own stupid life
I don't know if I can do it
I think it sounds difficult
Too much to take at one time.
Apr 9, 2018
Apr 9, 2018 at 7:19 PM UTC
My wife's 50th Birthday
We're drinking cocktails
Vermouth, Bols blue
Amaretto and lemonade.
There is a name for it, but
I don't know what it is
And I really don't care
So we're drinking
Smoking cigarettes
And wondering about time.
Wow! I can't believe that
Karen is fifty, and how is it
That I can be forty - five.
It's so ******* weird
Growing older, I don't really
Feel any different from when
I was 25
A little more tired, a little more
Cynical
But basically still me
Effectively still a child
I always just assumed
That once you hit 35
You'd feel automatically
Grown Up, and know
How to survive
Not only that but
How to thrive
A professional career
And a beautiful wife
Just like the lives you see on T.V.
I expected someone to do that for me
My own stupid naivety
But no, I've got to take control
Of my own stupid life
I don't know if I can do it
I think it sounds difficult
Too much to take at one time.
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