At 4:30 PM (parody of "At the End of the Day")
Scene: A discount store in the late afternoon. Several elderly ladies are walking around, looking at the merchandise.
Old Ladies:
At 4:30 PM, your day ends
when you're older
Once you're eighty, you
can't stay up late anymore
Time for bed, but not
before
We see what kind of
bargains they're giving
At our favorite place to
be, this discount store.
It's our reason for
living!
At 4:30 PM you start
thinking it's colder
Turn the heat up to 90 and
still feel a chill
And the young kids hurry
past
Think the traffic rules
aren't for heeding
Thirty-five miles an hour
is so fast, they're gonna kill
Someone with all that
speeding!
At 4:30 PM, loss of
memory's dawning
Glasses go in your mouth,
dentures go in your eyes
Like the waves break in
the bay
We could drift off to
sleep any second
Woman 1:
"Well you know, back
in the day..."
Old Ladies:
We've got tales and advice
to be reckoned
We're a whole lot wiser
than them (pointing to young people)
At 4:30 PM!
Woman 2:
At 4:30 PM we want
something for nothing
I've just heard that Aisle
6 has a sale on stale bread
Woman 3:
There are grandkids we
must call
Bug their parents to make
sure they're fed
Do they eat enough food?
Do they
Go early to bed?
Old Ladies:
And how warm are they
dressing?
Woman 2:
Have you seen how the
shoppers are crazy today?
Always crowding around,
with their rude shoving hands?
Woman 3:
It's 'cause social
security checks came, they say
Woman 1: (pointing
to the checkout line):
Take a look at that long
line where everyone stands
Old Ladies:
At 4:30 PM your day's
already over
Woman 1: (pushing
shopping cart filled with cans):
With enough canned
tomatoes to last for a year
Old Ladies:
Play some bingo, play mah
jongg
But complain the whole
time at the table
Watch Food Network all day
long
Even though you've got
digital cable
Woman 2 (sees
another sale):
Ooh! Ten cents off each of
them
At 4:30 PM!
Woman 3:
And what have we here,
little meek and shy sister?
Come on Fantine, let's see
what's in your cart!
Ooh..."Closeout
Price! Save a bundle of money!"
It's the very last copy
Of this work of art!
(She tries to grab the figurine from Fantine's cart, and they fight over it.)
A/N: As with "Lovely Ladies," only the first part of the song really works for this parody, so I'm ending it here.
