and when I die compose a symphony in my voice transfer my soul into a violin string and my heart into a timpani drum as long as I can be heard I will never be truly gone you told me once you would name a gun after me if you stumbled across one that spoke in my voice and if you can hear my name in a gun shot you can find it again in a broken chord on a piano because I used to be a composer but every melody was about you people rest in sound waves and it's time I was found again just like I found you
and when I die bury me in sheet music and leave me under the concert hall so that I will never go without music reverberating through my bones I've been told my eyes are gold if you look at them in the right light but if you gave me room to breathe again they might become the color of the land I am rushing over in bass line one that you created with your own two hands
and when I die and you hear what you have created for the first time I hope you fall to your knees in a spotlight on the stage you stand because you have just realized that I am more alive now than I was when I was breathing
and when I die I will not really be dead
now will I?
eventually I will be dead, but never gone never gone