Suicide Is Painless lyrics

It helps to know the two stanzas missing from the above lyrics:

I try to find a way to make
All our little joys relate
Without that ever-present hate
But now i know that it's too late

The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before i'm beat
And to another give my seat
For that's the only painless feat.

Long story short, this was written by director robert altman's son when he was 14 years old. An intelligent person begins to feel the full impact of discovering the extent and nature of the lies he or she has been raised to believe in. "the only way to win is cheat", so the author has discovered that integrity is a crippling social liability, and justice a hollow fantasy, in the real world. Add to this the full impact of brand new sex hormones and the activation of powerful social and territorial instincts that make the issues of integrity and justice "key", and, as the rational computer in war games concluded, "the only way to win is, not to play. " ironically, altman said his son made more money from mash than he did... So evidently there is some justice in the world after all.