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What Do You Expect Me To Do

from For As Briefly As I Live by Dani Lee Pearce

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lyrics

What Do You Expect Me To Do:

i cant spend eternity bored out of my being
if the spirit gives the body life
the spirits just as human in
the absence of pain and mortal decay
id still be hurtin
just a wisp that washes long past due
in some aging survivors window curtain

my spirits tied herself to music
all its being lives and breathes in notes of music every silence is just some bars of rest
without a sound im salt and foam
in a red red ocean
lead bedded ocean

what if there ain’t no vinyl records in the afterlife
or no studios no Neumann 47s in the afterlife
or no synthesizers electric guitars drums or bass in the afterlife
what do you expect me to do
when I do die
what do you expect me to do
when i do die

if you think ill rest in peace
you haven’t seen how restless ive been lately
i never plan to stop
i will accept no ending
ill find new vessels
i will find new types of instruments to play
or ill bang on the walls of wherever my spirits taken to be

expect me to pester you saying
give me something to do
give me something to do
will anyone i know be there
cause if im lonely youll be sorry
crying black tears into a
red red ocean
lead bedded ocean

what if there are no steinway grand pianos in the afterlife
no harpsichords or bells or chimes
in the afterlife
no computers daws or cheap USB microphones in the afterlife
what do you expect me to do
when i do die
what do you expect me to do
when i do die

what if there are no bands or festivals in the afterlife
or any musical family art connections in the afterlife
what if all thats there is a blinding sun eye thats shines all over me day and night
what do you expect me to do
when i do die
what do you expect me to do
when i do die

if you think that you can do better than music in the afterlife
there’s no way that you can say that
without admitting that you are lying
i cant stop and i wont stop
you cant make me not even in the afterlife

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from For As Briefly As I Live, released February 14, 2020

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