You are watching a programme for exactly an hournAll of these hours they will add up to a daynYou will sit there till they're done but there are 24nTo playnThere'll be rims around your eyelids by the 7th or then8thnBut if you go to sleep tonight you will be older whennYou wakenAnd you say one man is the parachute and the other isnThe knife that cuts the brakennFirst we were born then we ran slowly out of lucknYou are still not Charles Bukowski and I am not DianenClucknAnd I would suck the life from you if there was anynLeft to sucknAnd I would love you if you told me there was somethingnThere to lovenI would marry you for moneynI would marry you for moneynI would marry you for money or for lucknI would marry you for money but I don't suppose you'llnEver have enoughnnWell the man on the screen he has done more in a minutenThan you have achieved in your whole entire lifennWhen you finally realize I was the best thing you hadnIn itnWe'll be closing up your eyelids on the bed or once younDienAnd I'll be sorry if it happens to younSorry if it happens to younSorry if it happens to you butnI guess if one man is the cancer then his death is justnThe knife that makes the cutnn24 for every year that we have sleptnDay by day into the neck of the abyssnAnd I am 24 today I don't believe I'll sitnThrough another year of this while you are sewing upnYour lipsnAnd I'll be sorry that you happened to menSorry that you happened to menSorry that you happened to me butnThey say that one man is the accident the other is thenHand that stops the bloodnAnd I am looking for the other one I'm looking for thenBlade to make the cutnOh if one man is the accident I'm looking for a hand tonStop the blood