How to Be Successful

A lesson In how to be successful To get a good profession With financial protection Avoid the next recession And get your parents blessing And that nice flat in Hendon Make it your new obsession First Go to uni And then you write a CV Apply for jobs in TV Media and advertising And always emphasizing Your love for filing Modernizing and enterprising Your in luck, son Turns out we're hiring Oh! 80.96 years on average A time you've got to manage Before it goes Oh! And on with the show Now meet a girl And she's your whole world So buy her a pearl Necklace and then propose And then have a kid And second and then a third Two boys and a girl Ruby, Alex, and Curt Now Ruby goes to uni Then Alex goes to uni Then Curt does an art foundation And then goes to uni Now Ruby's feeling broody Meets a boy and gets producing A nice set of grandchildren Robbie, Bethan, and Susan Oh! 80.96 years on average Your life It's gone It's vanished What can you show? From years and years and years ago? Your life feels wasted Your kids? Vacated Your family home You should have faced it years and years ago Cause now it's the end of the show So my lesson? On how to be successful? It won't get a mention When you're old and grey and mental Forget about professions Forgot the flat in Hendon Cause when you're on your deathbed Give it a fuck if you're successful