EVERYTHING IS OVERRATED

School for 20 years
Blood, sweat, and tears
Get a degree
All signed and dated
Sign on the dole
Like another lost soul
That’s why education is really overrated

Fall deeply in love
All turtle dove
Get married
To the one that you dated
Divorce rears it’s head
Cost you an arm and a leg
That’s why love is really overrated

Invests cash in stocks
Told “they’re solid as rocks”
Till the markets crash
Economy completely inflated
Share value gone
Just paper printed on
That’s why money is really overrated

Broaden the mind
See what you can find
Get herpes
From a stranger you mated
Catch a flight home
Once again you’re alone
That’s why travel is really overrated

Hit the booze
Nothing to loose
Mouth off
About everything you hated
Cold sweat and shiver
Cirrhosis of the liver
That’s why drinking is really overrated

Put all into working
No time for shirking
Get fired
Your debts all get backdated
You are all null and void
Like Pretty Boy Floyd
That’s why careers are really overrated

Turn to the smack
Supplement it with crack
Go mad
Then they keep you sedated
The warnings you didn’t heed
Eventually you OD’d
That’s why drugs are really overrated

Turn inwards, don’t blow it
Become a street poet
Churn it out
Get your verses collated
Along comes writes block
You are soon back in the dock
That’s why poetry is really overrated

And then you die
No word of a lie
Buried
When you wanted to be cremated
Amongst all the crazies
Pushing up daisies
That’s why death is really overrated

But don’t despair
Hope is still there
Dream large
The rest is all fated
Remember your dreams
They are your only schemes
That’s why dreams are really underrated