Sixty, the Last Day

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Verse

On the Friday in the break room there's a cheap and lovely cake
And they gathered round at two o'clock and gave a little cheer
And the new director said my name and got it wrong, I fear
And I laughed because it doesn't matter, thirty-seven years
Oh they gave me a glass paperweight and then they disappeared
And I packed a single box of things I didn't want to take
And I walked out to the parking lot at ten to five, awake
And I sat inside the car a while for nobody's own sake

Chorus

It's okay, it's okay
You will wake up on the Monday and you won't know what you're for
And you'll clean the whole garage and then you'll clean it even more
And by April you'll be busier than ever you were before
Oh I promise you, I promise you, there's more, there's so much more
It's okay, it's okay
You are early, you are early, that is all, and that's okay
And the rest of it is coming, it is coming, it's on its way

Verse

I was decent at my job and I was reasonably good
And I don't think anybody there will quite recall my name
And it stung a bit on Friday and it isn't really shame
It's just: was that it? was that the whole of it? and all the same
Oh I'd do it all again and I would do it just the same
There were people that I helped and there were problems that I stood
In the middle of, and solved, and there is nobody who could
Have told you it was anything, and yet it all was good

Chorus

It's okay, it's okay
You will wake up on the Monday and you won't know what you're for
And you'll clean the whole garage and then you'll clean it even more
And by April you'll be busier than ever you were before
Oh I promise you, I promise you, there's more, there's so much more
It's okay, it's okay
You are early, you are early, that is all, and that's okay
And the rest of it is coming, it is coming, it's on its way

Bridge

You are not at all behind and you have got a lot of time
There are twenty years of Tuesdays and they're coming out your way
There's a language you could learn and there's an instrument to play
There's a friend you haven't spoken to in thirty years, okay
Oh go call him, go call him, it's a Tuesday, it's today
And the ending of a job is not the ending of a climb
And the bottom of an hourglass can be the top of time
And I promise you, I promise you, you're only in your prime