Uncle Phil - Cemetery Bound Lyrics

I've seen dictators fall and cooperatives fail
And inappropriate oligarchs crowned
I've heard kings utter things that were far beyond the pale
And I could see that they were cemetery bound

I've drunk in cellar bars with philosophers
Who, in their cups, could still wax profound
But their pithy insight could not cure the blight
Of knowing that they were cemetery bound

I've gambled in vice dens with players
Who offered ten dollars to the pound
But I ignored the bleats of the naysayers
Because I knew that I was cemetery bound

I tried to strike a deal with a man in Bangkok
To sell off my horse and my hound
He said - I seem to feel they've too many miles on the clock
And besides, you look cemetery bound

Once I swapped a mountain for a molehill
Now some might say that my thinking was unsound
But's it's all a matter of perspective down at the landfill
And anyway, I'm cemetery bound

I swam the English Channel for a wager
And twenty miles across I nearly drowned
They asked me what went wrong, I said - nothing major
I just remembered I was cemetery bound

I've wandered the whole world over
And this is the one constant I've found
That when you're looking up at the roots of the clover
You're long past being cemetery bound