Your Own Business

What you think of me of course is your own business and surely your own business cannot be mine If you dislike me for whatever reason I can live with that for that does suit me fine But if you say nice things of me all the better for kindness shown to us we should feel glad At my stage of life I'm just happy to be living and in life we must take the good with the bad The wise old bloke joe well into his eighties says life it does not owe us anything 'Tis the thought of death I only fear he tells me and the praises of life he's happy to sing He is eighty six but he wants to keep on living to cancer eight years back he lost his wife But he wants to live for as long as he can live for he is one who is in love with life Although 'tis said what we dislike in others in our own selves these things we also see But I'd much prefer the saying of live and let live it does surely make a lot more sense to me What I think of others it is my own business and surely my own business is my own One must sort of envy those who do have few to judge them the people who to many are not known And what you think of me of course is your own business and your business it never can be mine If you dislike me for whatever reason I can live with that and that does suit me fine.