Comfortable Dark · Album · Track 6
3 Aug 2026 · 3:17 · Swing · 585 plays
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Nobody dies in the advertisement,
they just switch to a whiter smile,
nobody ages in the photograph,
they simply upgrade their lifestyle.
The models on the billboard have been twenty-nine for years,
the actors in the kitchen never once discuss the end,
and the man who sells you decades in a bottle on the shelf
has a date on his own calendar he tries hard not to read.
Oh, nobody dies in the advertisement, (nobody dies!)
nobody bleeds in the brochure, (nobody bleeds!)
we built a whole civilisation
on a Tuesday that will never come!
So buy the car, and build the tower, and carve your name in stone,
have a son to have a son to have a son to carry on —
'cause if you're busy, if you're famous, if you're winning, if you're loud...
then it isn't really happening at all! (at all! at all!)
Every empire is a man who couldn't sleep,
every monument's a fist raised at the dark,
we do not fear the ending, oh, we've simply never met it —
we've arranged our whole existence so we won't.
We put the old ones in a building at the edges of the town,
we say "he passed," we say "she's gone," we never say the word,
and the only honest sentence in the language of our age
is the one nobody finishes out loud.
Friends! Are YOU going to die?
Not today! Not today!
Ask about our exciting range of distractions!
Careers! Renovations! Grievances! Sport!
...results may vary.
'Cause nobody dies in the advertisement, (nobody dies!)
on a Tuesday that will never come...
So dance with me, and drink with me, and never check the time,
there's a clock behind the bandstand but we painted over it —
oh, nobody dies in the advertisement, my love...
and nobody in this ballroom ever will.
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