Can't Afford to Die
5,000 dollars for the casket and for the Catholic Package Wake
That was another eighteen hundred, just to grace the pearly gates
Six Thousand dollars for the grave plot, But that was purchased years before
The inscription on the tombstone, will set you back a thousand more
If this cruel world was a hotel, one detail that they left out
It's a quick and easy check in but it adds up when you check out
Mother don't' you pray for me, sister don't you cry
I ain't going nowhere, I can't afford to die
The take for the undertaker for her makeup and the dress
Was slightly more than the Pastors for passing down the righteousness
$800 for the transportation, I know each mile has a price
But we did all the heavy lifting, so it seems to me a discount would be nice
And if this cruel world was a hotel, one detail that they left out
It's a quick and easy check in, but it adds up when you check out
Mother don't' you pray for me, sister don't you cry
I ain't going nowhere, I can't afford to die.
There's so many ways to live
If you're lucky you get back what you give
And at the end of the road
There's so many ways to go
When I die cremate my body, Lord knows I ain't heaven sent
And don't use the local morgue if it costs more than one month's rent
You can build a blazing fire way out on the family land
Get someone who doesn't suck to come and play Tamborine Man
And burn it up around my body as the day turns into dusk
Watch the embers glow and scatter as I'm broken down to dust
Then please gather up my ashes like this is my living will
Take one third up to the mountain and wait till the wind is still
When you reach the destination, when the overlook looks right
Feel the breeze begin to blow and let me go and take my flight
The next third goes to the river where my sweet dog used to swim
Please release me to the water and I will be born again
The rest mix in with the soil and with all that cash you saved
Plant a tree along the fence to give the grazing horses shade
Mother don't' you pray for me
Sister don't you cry
I ain't going nowhere
I can't afford to die
That was another eighteen hundred, just to grace the pearly gates
Six Thousand dollars for the grave plot, But that was purchased years before
The inscription on the tombstone, will set you back a thousand more
If this cruel world was a hotel, one detail that they left out
It's a quick and easy check in but it adds up when you check out
Mother don't' you pray for me, sister don't you cry
I ain't going nowhere, I can't afford to die
The take for the undertaker for her makeup and the dress
Was slightly more than the Pastors for passing down the righteousness
$800 for the transportation, I know each mile has a price
But we did all the heavy lifting, so it seems to me a discount would be nice
And if this cruel world was a hotel, one detail that they left out
It's a quick and easy check in, but it adds up when you check out
Mother don't' you pray for me, sister don't you cry
I ain't going nowhere, I can't afford to die.
There's so many ways to live
If you're lucky you get back what you give
And at the end of the road
There's so many ways to go
When I die cremate my body, Lord knows I ain't heaven sent
And don't use the local morgue if it costs more than one month's rent
You can build a blazing fire way out on the family land
Get someone who doesn't suck to come and play Tamborine Man
And burn it up around my body as the day turns into dusk
Watch the embers glow and scatter as I'm broken down to dust
Then please gather up my ashes like this is my living will
Take one third up to the mountain and wait till the wind is still
When you reach the destination, when the overlook looks right
Feel the breeze begin to blow and let me go and take my flight
The next third goes to the river where my sweet dog used to swim
Please release me to the water and I will be born again
The rest mix in with the soil and with all that cash you saved
Plant a tree along the fence to give the grazing horses shade
Mother don't' you pray for me
Sister don't you cry
I ain't going nowhere
I can't afford to die
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Writer(s): Mike Herz
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