When I'm Dead

from Hurricanes by Micah Sommersmith

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When I'm dead
They won't remember my name
I'll be that guy who wrote that song that everybody though was clever
When I'm dead
I'll be the man who could have moved the world
If only they had given me the proper sort of lever

Half of them will toast my memory
And half will heap some curses on my head

And there'll be laughing, there'll be screaming,
There'll be talking, there'll be dreaming,
But there won't be any crying when I'm dead

When I'm dead
Shoot my ashes into space,
Dump my ashes in the ocean, bake my ashes in a cake
When I'm dead
Bury me next to my true love,
Bury me under the plum tree, see what difference it makes

Half will raise there glasses with a smile
And half will shake their disapproving heads

And there'll be laughing, there'll be screaming,
There'll be hoping, there'll be scheming,
But there won't be any crying when I'm dead

No no no, don't mourn for me, bumblebee
I'm just a vibrating string
Don't you know vibrations always fade away
But sometimes the echoes linger for a little while
And that's all I can hope for
That's all anyone can hope for
That's all I can hope for when I'm dead

And half of them will toast my memory
And half will heap some curses on my head

And there'll be laughing, there'll be screaming,
There'll be talking, there'll be dreaming,
But there won't be any crying when I'm dead
No I won't take no crying when I'm dead
So if I catch you crying when I'm dead

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from Hurricanes, released May 1, 2007

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