When You Arrive

[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