Our Coastal Hymn

Lyrics

Rally up my friends And stand by my bedside If I die tonight Put my head inside a mason jar Put it in the ocean And send it out to sea I'm wading because... And when I hit some shore And when my seal is broke I'll split my eyes and lips asking "Is this a judgment or a joke?" This is a chance to dissect it This is a chance to make it up These are the words we've selected Don't believe my lies Of an afterlife spent drifting After forty hours I sank straight to the bottom Of the harbor near my home And there I lay alone The spider crab is finely clad Beneath my cloak of brain and bone This is a chance to make it up This is a chance to dissect it This is a chance to break it up These are the notes we've selected In the basement of the dress shop They play poker on the weekends Old men trading laces It's an absolute disgrace They never gave a tip To the boy who ran the route They never gave a shit What the paper was about But when they heard he died They read the news that day Just so they could see What his obituary would say It said: "Rally up my friends And stand by my bedside! Rally up my friends And stay with me tonight!"