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And When You Get To Heaven, Don'T Wait Up

Just one more day to be saint One more high and a new complaint One more day to know my life is over One more day to relive to this moment Just one more hour while my mind is absent One more day to redefine sober She sings to me it’s my decision Altar to my vision Breathe and sigh over you Breathe and say From dust to blood No one wants to live forever From blood to dust Eternity is now or never Just a day to refine my nervous Wondering how they’ll forgive my lovers One more day to die and then it’s over Another year and I’ll be a servant Singing hymns and hating others Woke up and I won’t lie sober She’s seen through my kind And I know a later time We could see another you Still I sing From dust to blood No one wants to live forever From blood to dust Eternity is now or never Just today I began to suffer Wondering why I ever bothered Sleeping with the guilt, I know it’s over One more year and I’d be a saint Procrastinated son to pain Hang around till the hangover is sober He saw through me and mine I’ve never known a better time That’s that to you and you Leave the soul From dust to blood No one wants to live forever From blood to dust Eternity is now or never

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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