Good Advice

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic... don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face

A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic...don't you think
A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out

A song that brings nostalgia to me for times filled with hope... 95...

But the reason i put in here is other than hope...

There is a category of people that punish you by giving you a good advice in a moment when you hate them and they are sure you are not going to take it. Or you simply cannot understand it because of timming, language or cultural differences. Or even not meant for your expected level of understanding.

It's also a form of social dualism, because this is a win-win situation, for them. If you run away from their advice because you simply hate everything coming from that direction in that moment, you take your deserved punishment for hate. If you take the advice or even you figure it yourself, then you owe them. But since there's always a flow, a covering emanation of good advice, you can never claim you ever took a good decision or generally you are of or do any good.

Why do you hate them? Because they harass you until you do. But this is usually a different story.

It's calculated and pathetic in the same time which is a contradiction of terms that almost allways hide a deeper contradiction from my experience. Still have to think about for a while.

But my first impression about this whole thing is ... surreal...