Overall, I take this as meaning that painful though it is, and although you didn't choose to start life ("sentenced you to life"), you have to keep choosing to be alive, otherwise you won't be.
I love the little interlude:
"You got a problem.
I lost my keys when I stayed at your place.
On the floor of your living room, you made the scene but it'll never get shown on TV.
So tonight prepare to kiss goodbye to my lovelife."
To me this shows what is great about J Cocker's writing - in four lines he sums up that: (a) they are having an affair; (b) this type of tawdriness is all you can really get from life (when read in the context of the song); (c) it's about to end because he left his keys there, so when the boyfriend/husband gets home he will eventually find them and the deception will be uncovered; (d) this type of drama seems huge in your own life, but of course it's totally commonplace ("it'll never get shown on TV"); (e) we do these things to ourselves ("you made the scene...").
Overall, I take this as meaning that painful though it is, and although you didn't choose to start life ("sentenced you to life"), you have to keep choosing to be alive, otherwise you won't be.
I love the little interlude:
"You got a problem. I lost my keys when I stayed at your place. On the floor of your living room, you made the scene but it'll never get shown on TV. So tonight prepare to kiss goodbye to my lovelife."
To me this shows what is great about J Cocker's writing - in four lines he sums up that: (a) they are having an affair; (b) this type of tawdriness is all you can really get from life (when read in the context of the song); (c) it's about to end because he left his keys there, so when the boyfriend/husband gets home he will eventually find them and the deception will be uncovered; (d) this type of drama seems huge in your own life, but of course it's totally commonplace ("it'll never get shown on TV"); (e) we do these things to ourselves ("you made the scene...").
I love this song. And album. And Pulp.