The Dead Only Quickly
Original version (1:14)
[on The Certainty Of Chance]
Priests and fools say
We are but animate clay,
But rude vessels
Housing immortal souls,
But the dead only quickly decay.
They don’t go about being born and reborn and rising and falling like soufflé.
The dead only quickly decay.
It would be swell
To see some folks burn in hell.
But when they go
It’s just as pleasant to know
That the dead only quickly decay.
They don’t go about being born and reborn and rising and falling like soufflé.
The dead only quickly decay.