
The Meaning of Life
- R
- Year:
- 1983
- 107 min
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In the bleak days
of 1983,
as England languished in the doldrums
of a ruinous monetarist policy,
the good, loyal men of the
Permanent Assurance Company,
a once-proud family firm
recently fallen on hard times,
strained under the yoke of their
oppressive new corporate management.
Terrible.
Really terrible.
Row!
That's it, Evans.
You're fired.
You heard me. Out.
Did you hear that?
He's been sacked.
Sacked?
Sacked? Come on, boys.
Let's get at 'em.
Hey!
Come on! Come on!
Let me out of here!
I demand
to see my lawyer!
Tooley! Come on.
Quiet! Silence!
Now, lads, let's move.
You, you and you,
break open the weapons.
You, you and you,
into the rigging.
And you, put the kettle on.
Aye, sir.
There, there, Charles.
Sorry!
Come on, Tooley.
This way!
Weigh the anchor!
Weigh the anchor.
And so, The Crimson Permanent Assurance
was launched upon the high
seas of international finance.
Come on, boy.
Watch it. Route. Route!
Cup of tea, dear?
Hey, Captain!
Look! To starboard!
There it lay,
the prize they sought.
Hard to starboard!
A financial district swollen with
multinationals, conglomerates,
and fat, bloated
merchant banks.
All right, lads,
battle stations!
Come on! Move it! Move it! Move it!
All right, then. That's
enough. Take cover.
Down, down! Get down!
Down, down.
Hard to starboard!
Fire!
Eric! My balance sheets!
Ross! Get the readouts!
Stop him!
Eric!
Thanks!
Charge!
Come on! Grab it!
No, no! Let me! Let me!
Okay, Kane.
Cudgelled!
Gotcha!
You bastard!
Take this.
Here. File this.
Shit!
And so, heartened
the desperate and reasonably violent
men of The Permanent Assurance
battled on until,
as the sun set
slowly in the west,
the outstanding returns on
their bold business venture
became apparent.
Once-proud financial giants
lay in ruins,
their assets stripped,
their policies in tatters.
Full speed ahead,
Mr. Cohen!
Up, up, up your premium
Up, up, up your premium
Scribble away
And balance the books
Scribble away
But balance the books
It's fun to charter
an accountant
And sail the wide
accountancy
To find,
explore the funds offshore
And skirt the shoals
of bankruptcy
It can be manly in insurance
We"ll up your premium
semiannually
It's all tax-deductible
We"re fairly incorruptible
Sailing on
the wide accountancy
Sail away...
And so, they sailed off
into the ledgers of history,
one by one, the financial
capitals of the world
crumbling under the might
Or so it would have been,
concerning the shape of the world
had not proved
to be disastrously wrong.
Morning.
Morning.
Morning.
Morning.
Morning.
What's new?
Not much.
Morning!
Good morning! Morning!
Morning!
Morning!
Frank was just asking
what's new. Was he?
Yes.
Hey, look.
Howard's being eaten.
Is he?
Makes you think, doesn't it? H mm.
I mean, what's it all about?
Beats me.
Why are we here
What's life all about
Is God really real
Or is there some doubt
Well, tonight
we"re going to sort it all out
For tonight
it's The Meaning of Life
What"s the point
of all this hoax
Is it the chicken
and the egg time
Are we just yolks
Or perhaps we're just one
of God's little jokes
Well, a, c'est
le meaning of life
Is life just a game
Where we make up the rules
While we"re searching
for something to say
Or are we just
simply spiraling coils
Of self-replicating DNA
Nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay
Nay, nay, nay, nay
What is life
What is our fate
Do we reincarnate
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