In the cemetery
That's where I want to be
In the cemetery
That's the place for me
O' I would sit there for hours
Reading the stones
Up in the towers
Finding the bones
At the mausoleums
And by the crypt
People from the coliseum
With blood that dripped
Corpses of all kinds
Up and down those rows
It all blew my mind
What this place could show
It had intense beauty
Like the days of gray
Even if the trees are sooty
Out by the bay
I have been there
Since who knows when
I just hope my last breath of air
Was not slandered within
I remember the days
When I was with him
But everything went up in a blaze
And he turned grim
I fell into the sea one day
Off the long pier
Too far from the bay
This water here was awfully clear
I hit a rock on my way down
I could tell from the blood
This was the day I did drown
And sunk into the mud
He wanted to find me
And give me a proper burial
Instead of leaving me in the sea
Of this Cuban place, Mariel
He took me back to my home
A small town in Maine
In our house filled with tomes
His colour started to drain
He brought me to this cemetery
The one I would always go to
It was my favorite cemetery
The one I had to bid Adieu
My grave reads: "Here lies Edgar Polanski.
He lies here in peace.
Always loved and always will be.
Died September 16th 1928 at age 37."
Oct 13, 2012
Oct 13, 2012 at 4:04 AM UTC
In the cemetery
That's where I want to be
In the cemetery
That's the place for me
O' I would sit there for hours
Reading the stones
Up in the towers
Finding the bones
At the mausoleums
And by the crypt
People from the coliseum
With blood that dripped
Corpses of all kinds
Up and down those rows
It all blew my mind
What this place could show
It had intense beauty
Like the days of gray
Even if the trees are sooty
Out by the bay
I have been there
Since who knows when
I just hope my last breath of air
Was not slandered within
I remember the days
When I was with him
But everything went up in a blaze
And he turned grim
I fell into the sea one day
Off the long pier
Too far from the bay
This water here was awfully clear
I hit a rock on my way down
I could tell from the blood
This was the day I did drown
And sunk into the mud
He wanted to find me
And give me a proper burial
Instead of leaving me in the sea
Of this Cuban place, Mariel
He took me back to my home
A small town in Maine
In our house filled with tomes
His colour started to drain
He brought me to this cemetery
The one I would always go to
It was my favorite cemetery
The one I had to bid Adieu
My grave reads: "Here lies Edgar Polanski.
He lies here in peace.
Always loved and always will be.
Died September 16th 1928 at age 37."
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