Harvey Bodine (Death of a Married Man) (Video Presented Without Commercial Interruption)

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
 



Published on Apr 26, 2013 by CountryGuitarist11.
 

Album: Wheelhouse (Featuring Eric Idle)
 

I had a heart attack,
(He had a heart attack),
While I was playing charades,
Everybody yelled,
"Heart attack!"
(Pledge of allegiance),
But it was too late.

Harvey Bodine
Died at 11:09,
And he left behind
A miserable wife,
And at 11:14,
His heart came back on the screen,
Thanks to that defib machine,
He came back to life.

Oh but those five minutes were heaven,
A peace unlike he'd ever known,
And as he came back to the living,
He thought, "Please God, don't make me go
Back to life."

They told him what happened,
How that green line had flattened,
Oh, Harvey just started laughing,
He said, "You're telling me I died,"
(You're telling me I died?)

Aw, and he thought about that woman,
How she treated him for years,
All the yellin' and the screamin,'
And the nagging and the tears,
And the way it wasn't really all that bad,
When he lost his life.

Because those five minutes were heaven,
A peace unlike he'd ever known,
And now he was back with the living,
And he found himself reaching for the phone.

He called his lawyer, he called his priest,
Told 'em bout how they'd restarted his heart,
And how his wedding vows were technically,
'Til death do us part.

You'll probably judge me and so be it,
But you know boys, here's how I see it:

Harvey Bodine
Died at 11:09,
And he left behind
A miserable wife,
Oh, but at 11:14
My heart came back on that screen,
Thanks to that defib machine,
I've come back to life.