Kiss Your Ass Goodbye [Glen Burtnik]

Kiss Your Ass Goodbye
Words and Music by Glen Burtnik
Vocals by Glen Burtnik

Here we go again
Hands making circles
That you can’t turn back again
Sky turning purple
At the funeral of a friend
Who wasn’t ready for the ending yet

He made a giant mess
Sloppy disaster
And he left it for the rest
To clean up after
Now the lawyers do their best
To try to divvy up
What’s ever left
Oh yeah

In the ending you can bet
Everyone's a loser

Kiss your ass good-bye
Boy you’re out of time
You didn’t choose life
It’s just your luck
You got your turn now
Give it up and
Kiss your ass good-bye

What’s left to say
When it’s over everyone but you remains
Little children will
Still go out and play
Just like it’s any other sunny day

In the ending you can bet
Everyone feels cheated

Kiss your ass good-bye
Dude you’re past your prime
First you loose your looks
Then you loose your luck
Take the hit
Pony up and
Kiss your ass good-bye

Everybody gets to go around one time
After that baby gonna go bye-bye
Everybody got to check out sometime
You go first
I’ll catch up right behind

In the ending you can bet
Everyone’s an equal

Kiss your ass good-bye
Man it’s closing time
It never seems fair
It’s never enough
Take a bow, pucker up and
Kiss your ass good-bye
Nothing left to say, now that it’s over you can
Kiss your ass good-bye

Good-bye

Interpretation

The lyrics are slightly different from the Styx version but the theme is the same: 

Death could come at any time, and life will go on after you are gone. Death is the great equalizer.