Down Like Me

At last I understand the consequences of my love

But how could there be a heaven where they kicked you out

'Cause you kicked out your chair from above?

Everybody loves to stick with the winner

But you showed me the line between victory and dying

Couldn't get much thinner

'Cause you, you found out how to get down

Down like me

When my self-pity became less than a full-time work

I meditated on the methods and the means

And whether or not it would hurt

Then I got the call that found you swinging out over the earth

So over me you win again in finishes, poems

In finals and in firsts

You finally had to get down

Down like me

By the time you read this, I will no longer be here

I had to read these words to all your family, friends

Everybody who never helped you

We'll keep an empty place at dinner forever

And I'll maintain an empty chair so you can sit in it

And we'll never grow old together

You showed 'em how to get down

Down like

Down like

Down like

Down like

Down like

Down like me