This song will become the anthem of your underground
You're two floors down getting high in the back room
If I flooded out your house, do you think you'd make it out?
Or would you burn up before the water filled your lungs?

And at your funeral I will sing the requiem

This song will become the anthem of your underground
You're two floors down getting high in the back room
If I flooded out your house, do you think you'd make it out?
Or would you burn up before the water filled your lungs?

And at your funeral I will sing the requiem
I'd offer you my hand
It would hurt too much to watch you die

And you can bet that when we mourn the death of you that night (of you that night)
They'll lay me on the dinner table, I will be the pig
With the apple in my mouth, the food that celebrates your end

And at your funeral I will sing the requiem
I'd offer you my hand
It would hurt too much to watch you die

And at your funeral I will sing the requiem
I'd offer you my hand
It would hurt too much to watch you die


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    if any of you are looking at the lyrics to this song simply because you heard it on the radio, don't just look here and be content. check out their old stuff. check out their older albums - through being cool, i'm sorry i'm leaving, and can't slow down. this is a good song, but a poor example of saves the day's talent. and chris's lyrics are amazing, so be sure to check out more of them on here.

    sigh. this song is hard to understand; i take it my own way.

    rumball107on January 09, 2002   Link

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