Grieve for the living while they still have hands To caress as you express the sorts of poetic strands That for some reason we don’t weave until nobody understands Why they’re gone so soon, we had so many plans And demand they listen now before the listener’s gone 'Cause we wait until they leave us how'd we get it so wrong And all the letters that we wrote we never passed along Til the casket’s last clasp is buckled down and locked
Make me a promise: when I go, you won’t lock this body up in a casket Let me grow from the ground, so later, you can fly around and sing your song in my branches (x2)
When I press my fingertips into my eyelids hard You are the shapes that dance around like living works of art When the darkness of the night is all I have in my heart You are the constellations saying keep your eyes on the stars But if you leave before I leave don’t let it trouble you much 'Cause I believe a part of me will go with you there, love And I know a part of you is there inside of my blood So my heart will keep on dancing with you flood after flood
Make me a promise: when I go, you won’t lock this body up in a casket Let me grow from the ground, so later, you can fly around and sing your song in my branches (x2)
So speak until your words are every breath in my lungs So every time I try to sing, your thoughts are there on my tongue A harmony so subtle, like we’re singing as one 'Til the room begins to shake with us in resonant tones Our bodies came from stars, so let’s return to form And ignite the way we did before the Earth was born In the darkness, spark another great electrical storm Before we leave all the survivors to remember and mourn.
Make me a promise: when I go, you won’t lock this body up in a casket Let me grow from the ground, so later, you can fly around and sing your song in my branches (x3)