A Premature Burial (Rough Mix)

Why don't I care enough to care

When I'm six feet under and running out of air

Mindlessly staring down this bell

As I descend closer to hell

And I can hear them eulogizing just above

"Our Parker Percival, in death you are still loved"

I think for them how much this hurts

Not much

They planned my funeral at a lunch

But regardless, in death

Nothing counts

Forgive me if my thoughts here are a little grave

But ultimately what's at stake

If I fade

'Cause I felt nothing, I meant nothing, falling into nothing

So if I can be saved

Tell me what's at stake

If my eyelids cave

Well certainty is scarcer

Than even gold

So why run away from the one thing that we know

For but a fleeting final moment

Fear takes hold of her opponent

Suffocates my feeble stoic mind

If I know that life's only certainty is death

Then that logic should triumph and lay me to rest

But as time steps away from me bowing his head

I am faced with the strangling question of if I was ready

And was I abandoned or did I deserve this sudden end

But that wouldn't even matter because

All gods will let you down sometime

All gods will let you down sometime

Time

My darling time could you just hold me

In this moment for a little while

I need more time

A quiet moment in this coffin

To find meaning in your grand design

Please tell me time

Did a god create you or did man just lie

To make himself feel fine

That all things die

And all things die but if there is a god

Then did I waste my time and will

I be alright

But if you spend your life preparing for your death

Then when you reach your final ending, you'll have nothing left

I am nothing, I'll be nothing more

So as death comes a-knockin' at my coffin door