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Country House by Blur

So the story begins)
City dweller
Successful fella
Thought to himself:
"Oops, I've got a lot of money
Caught in a rat race
Terminally
I'm a professional cynic
But my heart's not in it
I'm paying the price of (1)____________ life at the limit
Caught up in the century's anxiety"

Yes, it (2)__________ on him
He's (3)______________ thin
(Try the simple life)

He lives in a house
A (4)________ big house
In the country
Watching (5)__________________ repeats
And the food he eats
In the country
He takes all manner of pills
And piles up analyst bills
In the country
Oh, it's like an (6)____________ farm
That's the rural charm
In the country

He's got morning glory and life's a different story
Everything's going Jack and Dory
Touched with his own mortality
He's (7)______________ Balzac, knocking back Prozac
It's a helping hand that makes you feel wonderfully bland
Oh, it's a century's remedy
For the faint at heart
A new start
(Try the simple life)

He (8)__________ in a house
A very big house
In the country
He's got a fog in his chest
So he needs a lot of rest
In the country
He doesn't drink, smoke, laugh
Takes herbal baths
In the country
You (9)____________ come to no harm
On the animal farm
In the country

(Blow, blow me out, I am so sad, I don't know why)
Answers:
(1) living(2) preys(3) getting(4) very(5) afternoon(6) animal(7) reading(8) lives(9) should