When You Arrive

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Breakfast was Mahler and coffee Dinner's Lightnin' Hopkins and rye Everything you say comes back to bite you These days only beauty makes you cry [Verse 2] The chapel is closed for the COVID Black mold owns the city by the sea Dew-beaded cobweb in the moonlight— Halo for a saint who's yet to be [Chorus] And the dead shall sing To the living and the semi-alive Bells will ring When you arrive [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3] You're limping like a three-legged canine Backbone creaking like a cheap shoe Dragging the accretions of a lifetime But you oughta make another mile or two [Chorus] And the dead shall sing To the living and the semi-alive Bells will ring When you arrive The dead shall sing To the living and the semi-alive Bells will ring When you arrive The dead shall sing To the living and the semi-alive Bells will ring When you arrive I said, the dead shall sing To the living and the semi-alive Bells will ring When you arrive (One more time now) The dead shall sing To the living and the semi-alive Bells will ring When you arrive When you arrive