Sir/Madam

When I was writing this song I had all of the music and vocal melody but no words, and I shared a phone-recording of me playing it and just humming/vocalising the melody with a friend. Most of my songs start that way...with just sounds filling in the vocal melody. He replied saying he thought he heard me sing "Dear Sir or Madam" (I hadn't, but we're both massive Beatles fans so no wonder his brain heard that). Well, that was all I needed as a prompt and I had the lyric finished by bedtime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RoETyhgC2Y

Sir/Madam

Dear sir or madam, why do you spend your days

In all these uninspiring ways?

You seem to go along just to get along

Have I got it wrong?

Dear sir or madam, after the day is done

You count up all the things you've won

Instead of feeling happy and energized

You're anaesthetized

Goes to show, the sun got in your eyes again

Dear sir or madam, what will it take to see

It's all a matter of degree?

A morning trying not to be overrun

And then the day is done

Goes to show, the sun got in your eyes again

And you know it's not guaranteed to rise again

Before we die we better try

Identifying what would really make our hearts sing

Before we know it

We could blow this puppet show

And find we pissed away the whole thing

So let's get started on the upswing

Dear sir or madam, can you believe it's true

That you're like me and I'm like you?

The clearer our intentions to seize the day

The more the disarray

Goes to show, the sun got in our eyes again

And we know it's not guaranteed to rise again

Before we die we better try

Identifying what would really make our hearts sing

Before we know it

We could blow this puppet show

And find we pissed away the whole thing

So let's get started on the upswing