The Seed Song

There's a chance that I'm dying

There's a chance I won't be around

To hear our babies crying

Baby, hush. I'm running out of sounds

Like the smoke in my lungs, I'm bound

To end up as ash in the ground

If I'm a man, and I am

Then we'll all end up this way

When I die, you can bury me however you want

By that time, don't worry about me, I'll be long gone

Like the morning that fog that cleared

Like the dark things you used to fear

Everything gets better with the coming of that day

Sing this as my body's lowered down

Hallelujah!

I'm a seed that's spending some time underground

Hallelujah!

If you want to grow an orchard, then you've got to kill some seeds

That's just how I feel about death and me

I heard that Jesus wept

His best friend died, and he cried over him

But he brought him back, and I bet he can do it again

Lovely, don't you cry for me!

Jesus said a seed must die

So Lovely, don't you cry

Come on, reaper, you can have the rest of me

I'm a marked man already, and I'm quite ready

Tell the man with the shovel who's tired of digging my grave

I'm only sleeping and tomorrow I'm going to wake

We're all sleeping, and tomorrow we're all going to wake up