There's A Dead Possum In My Pool

Just me getting all deep and, you know, contemplating the human condition and stuff. Inspired by a true story.

Apologies for the one naughty word, but I just didn't think any other word rang as true, somehow.

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THERE’S A DEAD POSSUM IN MY POOL

Woke up this morning. Well, that was a mistake.

It's one that I habitually make

Still, I get out of bed, pull on a sweater

A breath of fresh air, maybe I'll feel better 

'Cause the house is a mess, the car won't start

And there's the little matter of my broken heart

Feels like the world just did a huge fart

In my face and...Oh, for fuck’s sake!

There's a dead possum in my pool

I don't complain much as a general rule

But how am I supposed to keep my cool

When there's a dead possum in my pool?

Just when you think life couldn't be crueler

It throws a marsupial in your pool or

Does something just as mean and I don't feel any better for

Knowing that he's just a hairy old metaphor

For everything that's wrong in my life

My job, my car, my house, my wife

You know it's a wonder I'm even alive

Unlike you know who 

There's a dead possum in my pool

I don't complain much as a general rule

But how am I supposed to keep my cool

When there's a dead possum in my pool?

Well, now I feel bad, where's my sympathy

Poor little fella has it even worse than me

But there’s something I forgot, now here’s a thought

He sure looks dead, but what if he's not

And maybe this piece of furry flotsam

Is just, you know, playing possum

I stand there for a while and just watch him

Could it be?

Could it?

Naaaah!

There's a dead possum in my pool

I don't complain much as a general rule

But how am I supposed to keep my cool?

When there's a dead possum in my pool

I guess there's a moral to this rendition

Of my meditation on the human condition

No use complaining, life's gonna be cruel

Until like a possum we fall in the pool

There's a dead possum in my pool

I don't complain much as a general rule

But how am I supposed to keep my cool?

When there's a dead possum in my pool