The cardboard box that I use to mend my shoes Has shrunk to a couple of square feet My diet consists of dandelion-roots Sleeping on a dirt bed with thorn-sheets Both of my socks are getting kind of stiff Since I ran out of toilet paper And I don't think that I'd ever change anything even if I would come to see my state as a failure My ambition Needs nutrition For me to do something about it But hey, it ain't everything Hey, it ain't everything Hey, it ain't everything Though most peoples lives seem to be all about it Earlier today I chopped my leg off by the knee As I thought that it would add a little something To my otherwise so meagre and fastidious cuisíne And also, give the dog a new play-thing. I'm nearly finished digging a hole in a dung-heep Smelly but well isolated At least now in the winter I will have somewhere to sleep With my 38 degree radiator My ambition Needs nutrition For me to do something about it But hey, it ain't everything Hey, it ain't everything Hey, it ain't everything Though most peoples lives seem to be all about it