Lyric discussion by sketchymurr 

Cover art for Just want to see lyrics by Cowboy Junkies, The

An excellent song.

A song about (I think) living life knowing that you're gonna die eventually and how she just wants to go to sleep and not think about it and enjoy her dreams instead.

Wow, that was worded badly. Oh well. This song needed some comments.

If you aren't paying close attention you might miss little details of very intentional and specific death scene quotes.

These deaths all say "I don't want to be...(quotation) because it will be seen as ...etc.

"Chalk outline" = dead for hours, all alone, until police found my body "no hair on no wall" = mistaken for a criminal because I took a gunshot would to the head. "a patch" on a memorial quilt = PITIED by everyone who used to treat me as an equal-- because I have aids or breast cancer. "blood-stained note saying fuck you all" = AN ANGRY...

  • "Chalk outline" = dead for hours, all alone, until police found my body
  • "no hair on no wall" = mistaken for a criminal because I took a gunshot would to the head.
  • "a patch" on a memorial quilt = PITIED by everyone who used to treat me as an equal-- because I have aids or breast cancer.
  • "blood-stained note saying fuck you all" = AN ANGRY AND SPITEFUL SUICIDE. a bloody suicide with a angry note suggests: remember how I used to say "you'll be sorry when I'm dead? now my blood is on your hands!