Understood
Isn't it funny
how irony can grab a hold of you
and turn you upside-down
Actually, iront doesn't do that to you
it does everything else to you
and everyone else
sees the iront
A father owned a bungee-jumping company
or operation
whatever you want to call it
And one day he had his family with him
and they wanted him to jump
Because, I mean, it's a safe thing, you know
And it was the anniversary
of him and his wife
and he said Okay
I Can Do It
And he got up there
and he got strapped in
and the kids turned the video camera on
And yes, he was strapped to the rope
and the rope wasn't strapped to the crane
The rope was strapped to nothing
And his own children
got to videotape their own father
struggling for the end of the rope
or the end of the ledge
or safety
or anything
And this is a true story, I tell you
And he had nothing like this happen before
and this is the irony that everyone else saw
Because it wasn't irony
that got a hold of him and turned him upside-down
it was gravity
and mistakes
and everything that could go wrong
which did
It was something that got a hold of you
something, I tell you
and everyone else
after the fact
understood
