Prologue

I was young once, and when I was young I joking told my best friend that I hoped to wake up from a drunken stupor, in my mid-thirties, and say, "Whoa, that was one hell of a ride." We had a good laugh about that one. It wasn't so funny when it came true, albeit a few years earlier than I had predicted, and I didn't think it was one hell of a ride, I only thought it was hell....

Eulogy

Not everyone grows up to be an astronaut,
Not everyone was born to be a king,
Not everyone can be Freddie Mercury,
But everyone can raise a glass and sing:

Well I haven’t always been a perfect person,
And I haven’t done what mum and dad had dreamed,
But on the day I die I’ll say “At least I fucking tried”,
And that’s the only Eulogy I need.

by Frank Turner