Time: 6:34
Copyright © 2010 Jeff Feldman
Verse 1
God has one hell of a sense of humor
But this time the joke’s on me
I believe in God and only God could make such jokes
But this time the Jokes on me – a thirteen year joke on me
Cause I didn’t find out the punch line for 13 years
Verse 2
God has one hell of a sense of humor
But this time the joke’s on me
I believe in God and only God could make such jokes
But this time the Jokes on me – a thirteen year joke on me
Cause I didn’t find out the punch line for 13 years
Verse 3
I believe in God; Only he or she could come up with Ecectus parrots as beautiful as mine
Sometimes God plays a funny trick
I found myself in my 20, 30s, and early 40s traveling constantly around the world
Making lots of money
Living the high life
Concentrating on my career, not my life
Then comes your 40s and here comes the trick
So Slow so slow so slow – 13 years to find out
You know why God gave me so much when I was young?
Because I wasn’t long for this earth, ha ha
This joke wasn’t so funny; he Gives that which he takes away
Verse 4
One weird thing at a time; not enough to tell me the truth,
Just separate things to treat
All these funny little things happening to you
Most guys live into their 70’s and 80’s but my docs give me 3 years give or take
I have 4 fatal diseases and they say I'll slowly rot away and need a nurse
They say I'll get weaker and weaker and weaker and then just be gone
Talk about yin and yang!
I’m literally waiting for the big bang
Verse 5
The one blessing I have is that I can still play music
I'm just trying to get this out of my system so I'm not trying
to make you, the audience, sick
The doc said don't ever be alone
Verse 6
But for women I've got a bag not a bone
What's the bravest thing to do?
Verse 7
I got a whale of a problem
But probably not as bad as whales and those Japanese fishing boats
Or all those gorgeous Pelicans dying off the California coast
I can still my bass so that gives me something where I can boast
Fretted, fretless It don’t matter
Cause I’ll be dead in two years said the neurologist
What’s the bravest thing I can do? myself?
Off myself or slowly rot away and leave my loved ones nothing ?
I just don't know I hope music'll help me out
I don't need another incision I need to make a decision!
Verse 8
Every part of my body is rotting away and one day I won't wake up
Do I off myself to maintain dignity and leave money for those I love?
Or do I just sit here with my parrots until they find me on the floor
dead and scream so loud the neighbors come
Talk about being reamed and all my parrots that live for 95 years
get to scream
Verse 9
I created you who are you to complain about my cosmic jokes?
You come or go when I say you could get hit by a car tomorrow
and you'd have nothing to do about it you could live 3 more years
Verse 10
Every part of my body is rotting away why, why why me?
Why is this happening to such a young guy?
It's been going so slowly they couldn't tell me I was
gonna be dead in a couple years until yesterday
This is absolutely nuts but I think God's playing
a cosmic joke on me but I don't get it!
Verse 11
My docs give me 3 years give or take
I have 4 fatal diseases and they say I'll slowly rot away
They say I'll get weaker and weaker and weaker and then just be gone
and waste my money on live-in nurses, live-in that, live-in this and that
wasting all my money away so then I have nothing to leave to
the one woman I ever loved and to the 2 pets that live for 95 years
that are my best friends the whole damn thing is ridiculous
and you can probably hear them in the background bitching
Verse 12
Why, why, why? And God could say why not? You have nothing to say about it.