DORRIS: Thas's not life, that's no life
         Why I'd just as soon be dead.
SWEENEY: That's what life is... Just is
DORIS: 
        What's that life is?
SWEENEY:                 Life is death.
             This one didn't get pinched in the end
              But that's another story too.
              This went on for a couple of months
              Nobody came
              And nobody went
              But he took in the millk, and paid the rent.
               What did he do! What did he do!
          That dont apply. 
           Talk to live men about what they do.
DORIS: cheer him up?
                    cheer him up?
SWEENEY: Well here again that dont apply
            But I've gotta use words when I talk to you.
            But here's what I was going to say.
He didn't know if he was alive and the girl was dead
He didn't know if the girl was alive and he was dead
He didn't know if they both were alive or both were dead
If he was alive then the milkman wasn't and the rent collector wasn't
And if they were alive then he was dead
There wasn't any joint
There wasn't any joint
For when you're alone
When you're like he was alone
You're either or neither
I tell you again it dont apply
Death or life or life or death
Death is life and life is death
I gotta use words when I talk to you
But if you understand or if you dont
That's nothing to me and nothing to you
We all gotta do what we gotta do
We're gona sit here and drink this booze
We're gona sit here and have a tune
We're gona stay and we're gona go
And somebody's gotta pay the rent.
But that's nothing to me and nothing to you.