Barely Eighteen - Barely began
Your life of grime and repetition
Barely learnt the phrases
You'll repeat for titillation
To the lads in the pub

Barely twenty one-barley bloomed
Before your bust and broken
Barely learnt the words you've spoken
To the man in the bed while your

Barely thirty - barely grown
Your offspring ready to demand
To cut up what's left of you as planned
When they were born, just like a thorn.
Barely 50 - barely lived
Now death knows your name
My mate, my kids, my job, my life
My blame - antidepressant uncle blue
Barely sixty - barely alive
Near the end of a life of pain
Nothing left to lose again
But nothing left for you to gain
Again and Again and Again.