The other side of suicide is
Where I’d like to be, but I
Feel like I’ve been living there
Since 2003
yeah I bought me a big ol’ country estate
With a driveway and a pool
yeah my broker really went for broke, makin’
me look like a fool


yeah the other side of suicide,
I hear that’ where its at
a land of peak efficiency, with
a workin’ centrelink app
I think I’ll haunt the lower house, now I
have all this free time
I’ll be as quiet as a mouse, sippin
my’ Gordies gin with lime

but if ya wana head on out
theres a shindig up the road, you can
join our emotional labor party
and we’ll help you bare the load

oh on the other side of suicide,
every body loves your work,
and the closest thing to a self-help guide
is Steve Martin’s ‘The Jerk’
well if ya listen close you can hear my ghost
on bandcamp or spotify, the streaming
revenue meets the river Hades
where the dead go floating by

ah the other side of suicide,
is marketed to teens,
with expendable incomes and existential
grief from the anthropocene
every anime gets subbed and dubbed
every sex worker gets paid
on the other side of suicide,
everybody’s gettin’ laid.


but if ya’d rather get to work
cos you’ve spent your gasps and sighs
join the emotional labor party
it’s time we unionised.
yeah, join the emotional labour party
and we’ll make sure no one else
up and DIEEEEEEESSSS