It All Makes Sense at the End

2009-04-09 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Philosophy & meaning · comedy performance

In an original song, Hank voices a man near the end of life who tallies how he spent his years and concludes that 57 years loving 'you' makes it all make sense.

What is said

00:00:00 — Song: an old man adds up his life (bed, chewing, pooing, work, TV) and finds 57 years loving 'you' makes sense of it

• ★★ In the song, a narrator near the end of his life does calculations to figure out how his life was spent. (fiction) — 00:00:15
• ★★★ The narrator's tally: 27 years in bed, two chewing, six months wooing, almost three pooing, 25 working for a hated boss, but 57 loving 'you', so it all makes sense. (fiction) — 00:00:32 > «So I guess it all makes sense at the end.»
• ★★ The narrator regrets over seven years of watching television but says he will never know how long he spent looking into the beloved's eyes. (fiction) — 00:01:19
• ★★ The narrator has understood life only through numbers: 80 years alive, 57 with 'you', yet it somehow is never quite enough time. (fiction) — 00:02:12

Humor (significant)

• The narrator lists years spent chewing and wooing, then addresses the listener's curiosity. — 00:00:39 > «And, I'm sure you're curious, almost three years pooing»
• He spent 25 years working for a boss. — 00:00:47 > «that I wanted to kill when I didn't want to die»
• He spent nearly a full year masturbating. — 00:01:05 > «Second only to the year we spent copulating»

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