line taken from british radio and television comedian tony hancock's suicide note. richy Edwards claimed this line was one of the most beautiful things he had ever read. the original line reads: 'Things seemed to go wrong too many times'.tony hancock was Born in Birmingham in 1924. he made his first radio broadcast in 1941. During wartime service with the RAF, he worked in concert parties and gang shows. After early post-war struggles he started working as a comedian at the Windmill Theatre. Radio bookings began to come in from 1949 and in 1953, Hancock became the resident comedian on radio's All-Star Bill. The show went on until 1959 and ran on television from 1956.

Despite increasing dependence on alcohol, and often having to read his lines from cue cards, hancock turned out many half-hours his listeners loved, including The Blood Donor, The Bowmans and The Radio Ham. he also played in movies like orders are orders, The Rebel and The Punch and Judy Man. hancock produced many classic shows that now form part of the british comic heritagehancock's private life was chaotic. He left his first wife Cicely and married his agent Freddie Ross, but his alcoholism quickly drove her away too. in 1968 he went to australia to make a fresh start there. during this time, he read a lot of philosophy and literature looking for meaning and hope. in australia [place], hancock's second divorce became absolute. Alone, depressed and despising the sympathy of sinking into public oblivion, hancock committed suicide with a combination of alcohol and pills on June 25, 1968, in Sydney.the line 'there's no hope in the colonies' in send away the tigers [lyric] refers to hancock trying to refresh his career in australia, only to end up killing himself.