All the times we could have been happy
But you took yourself so seriously
Convinced that you could never be free
That men were barking up the wrong tree,

Those years you wasted my estranged love
When it came to push and shove
You'd rather have executed the dove
So that you and I could never rise above,

And to think you took yourself so seriously
No time for pleasure in this miserable sea
That you made for yourself and me
Even if I prayed on bended knee,

Jesus would say you would never come back to me
All bets were off and we sank into the sea
Me the kindred spirit and you the autopsy
Of a life that had died long before your decree,

I was just an impressionable young boy
Taught that love was supposed to be made of joy
Taught that we were too polite to annoy
That other's emotions were not just a toy,

You take yourself so seriously
As though you belonged in a 007 movie
How could it have been so hard for you and I to agree?
That you had to resort to this kind of fantasy,

I'm but a sinking offering to the gods of the sea
There is no longer a practical use for me
You see I stopped believing in the comfort of herbal tea
You're fatal weakness inflicted by your mommy,

The parent you could never please
Left a little girl and a grown woman in such unease
Won't find her in a photo saying "Cheese"
Sadly for me my life seems in a deep freeze,

Caught between the future and the past
Convinced that goodness won't last
Thank you cruel sister you did it alas
It seems I've been smitten by a malignant mass,

You take yourself so seriously
There's little reason to be liberated or free
Only Alice in Wonderland should raise that cup of tea
Out of disillusion it will all end finally.