Ah,
ah
When I go, I wanna be useful
Don't bury me in a wooden box
One day a skeleton in a suit and tie
Please don't make it harder for me to die
Mix my ashes in an hourglass
Pour my blood onto crashing waves
Find my vocal chords a poet who will
use them like the instrument they are
And make my spine into a guitar
So by all means,
please take every last ounce of me
Don't wanna be mixed up in the debris
Planting a forest check up on the tree
Rest your sunglasses on my sun-bleached skull Play
fetch with the grieving dog and my femur bones
Feel the warm sand through my feet The cool,
cool grass between my freshly painted toes
Oh,
oh,
oh,
oh Place my teeth under your soft pillows
The tooth fairy will not ask I'm sure
she's indifferent as we are to the
cash So by all means,
please take every last ounce
of me Don't wanna be mixed up in the debris
Planting a forest check up on the tree And
if you decide to twist my ribs and build
them into a morbid birdcage That feels right to me
They've always felt too tight to me And when all is said and done
Every part found a home but one So if
you'd like to keep my heart to yourself
Just for you alone proudly mounted on your shelf
Or maybe beating neath your floorboards Another thing you hoard
Wear my skin like lace Wouldn't wanna take up too much space
So by all means,
please take every last ounce of me
Don't wanna be mixed up in the debris
Planting a forest check up on the tree