Since We Are Mere Mortals

The biological clocks on our lives keep ticking away And the end is drawing nearer with each night and day And since we are mere mortals the facts never lie We are born into life and destined for to die With each tick of the clock our end is drawing near But 'tis only the fear of death that we do fear The average life span of a woman is a few years more than that of a man But in time the longest human life is not a very long span Feel happy if to seventy years you survive In ten years from now I may not be alive The boy of the fifties is ageing today Time does take it's toll as some are known to say When we reach our forties our best years are gone And the clock on our lives does tick on and on.