Drag myself from my bed Around 20 past 6 Get my kids up make breakfast 1 egg 2 toast 3 weetabix
And as i sit down i look up and your standing in the doorway sun at your back in my old brown dressing gown Well no one can love you more than i love you now, but i
Gotta go running for the bus Coat flying and i try not to miss it this time but the drivers waiting and thats strange kids on the top deck quiet for a change and theres no rain and no roadworks in the bus lane and all my hurts run away and im smiling as im punching in
the day i died was the best day of my life the day i died was the best day of my life tell my friends and my kids and my wife everything will be alright the day i died was the best day of my life
now the secretaries they got a smile for me and the intray on my desks almost empty I get a memo from executive joe saying Rob the gob is getting kicked out for embezzling funds from the company account and id be lying if i said i wasnt chuffed cos i always hated rob and now they'll probbaly offer me robs old job
and in the park at lunch theres no whinos on my favourite bench none of that drunk chatter none of that greasy stench and the scrawny little pigeons with the gammy legs decide to dive bomb for someone elses sandwich instead and theres something about the city today like all the colours conspire to overwhelm the grey and this close to the fire i can feel no cold but a rainbow halo around my soul
the day i died was the best day of my life the day i died was the best day of my life tell my friends and my kids and my wife everything will be alright the day i died was the best day of my life
so i leave work get to the high street and i miss my bus should i wait for another no i cant be arsed i begin to walk and rush hour crowd seem to part like the red sea and im stopping at the offy 20 cigarettes and a 6 pack to relax me and as i cross back over the street i guess i never saw that taxi
the day i died was the best day of my life the day i died was the best day of my life tell my friends and my kids and my wife everything will be alright the day i died was the best day of my life