I spent my time upon this world
Just having fun and chasing girls
All the pleasures of this life I have tasted
I worship beauty and romance
I love to sing, I love to dance
And the rest of my life I guess I wasted

So when the reaper comes
To carve one more notch
I'll look back on my life and I'll have something to watch

I don't regret a single one
Of all the things that I have done
I just regret some of the things that I did not do
I never kissed Sue Rubenstein
Who sat beside me in grade nine
Even though she smiled at me and said I ought to

So when the reaper comes to carve one more notch
I'll look back on my life and I'll have something to watch

No I don't need Hollywood flicks
To give me thrills or get my kicks
Or take me to some lovers' artificial heaven
No I don't have to fantasize
I only have to close my eyes
And remember June 3rd 1987

And when the reaper comes
To carve one more notch
I'll look back on my life and I'll have something to watch

Well I don't think that this is wrong
The things I'm saying in this song
As I praise my self-indulgence and shirking
For I'll bet no one has said
As they lie there on that bed
That they wished they had spent more of their life working

So maybe I have had a moment of debauch
And maybe I did drink a little too much scotch
(it's amazing there's any left ...)
But when the reaper comes
I'll say sit down my friend
Here's something we can watch

... Thank you for watching