by Soozy » 5/6/2006, 11:09 am
I just can't agree with this at all.
Life expectancy in the UK is 78, the woman is 63, her husband is around the same age. So if they live to that life expectancy, the child will be an orphan by the time they're 15. And while the parents may have plans in place to have the child well looked after after they die, it's just not enough in my books. I was 17 when my mum died, my brother was 15. We're well enough looked after financially and emotionally and whatever else, but it's just not the same as having her around still - we both miss her terribly even though it's been 11 years now. I just can't see how anyone would choose want to put their child through that.
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.