Ready When You Are

Ready When You Are Good evening Mr Reaper I knew one day I’d meet you You’ve been a little tardy But I’m ready now to greet you Will it be a bullet Or a knife to slit my throat Will my heart stop beating Will I fall out of a boat Was I in your diary Was I booked in for today Was I picked at random To be sent upon my way I’ve seen you in the shadows From the corner of my eye Do you linger waiting For some order upon high You met my love last Monday And our children years before And now there’s only me to take For I have nothing more I’m ready as I’ll ever be To join my loving wife And yet you let me teeter On this tightrope we call life And so I take this coil My tool to set me loose I didn’t even know that I Could tie a hangman’s noose