Instructions

Here's how I'd like things to go down Please don't leave me in the ground Put all my ashes in can Drive up north in the van Roll down the windows and play The Band And take me to the place Where we spent all those days And throw me to the wind Off of the dock where we'd swim That's where I'd love to begin Where I'd love to begin In my piano bench you'll find Something for you I left behind Then put my notebooks in a pile Strike a match and light a fire There's nothing left that's worth while Then take me to the place Where we spent all those days And throw me to the wind Off of the dock where we'd swim That's how I'd love this to end That's how I'd love this to end That's how I'd love this to end How I'd love this to end We Three were driving west Trying to digest Yet another test Yet another thing about you wrong And I just wasn't talking And you, you weren't stopping And she started crying As soon as we stopped moving And the tension was rising As the traffic kept piling And so we're just sitting there In the sun as it glares As everyone just stares Out their windows Thinking this ain't fair And my mind can't stop swimming From saving us to sinking While everyone's been singing How great we've both been dealing With the cards that just weren't falling Exactly how we once saw them And then something suddenly Made us feel like we Were rising from the debris And it sounded just like New Orleans A man out on delivery Of Kit Kats and Sweet Marie's Passed by us on the street Playing a trumpet while steering with his knees And his song blew like a summer breeze Turning a funeral march to a jubilee And as the music faded east We felt like we were back on our feet