Everyone Loves You When You're Dead

Everyone Loves You When You're Dead

One man's life is another man's myth

A distortion of words, changing with every new passing sun

Like Truth, rising from the bottom of her well

Kipling was right, she returns home and the story runs

The best you had wasn't good enough while your heart was beating

But now that the curtain's drawn, you're legend's breathing

They always love you when you're dead

Oblivion has a new star

Ain't that a final kick in the head

How everyone loves you when you're dead

A great inscription, was that the life long goal

A passing milestone for an afterlife worthy of headlines

Another soldier, braving the odds on an desolate hill

Or a stowaway on the Titanic, descending below the waterline

The best you had wasn't good enough while your heart was beating

But now that the curtain's drawn, you're legend's breathing

They always love you when you're dead

Oblivion has a new star

Ain't that a final kick in the head

How everyone loves you when you're dead

Hushabye, be a good little boy and go to sleep

Hushabye, be a nice little girl and close your eyes

Hushabye, you know everything will be better now

Now that the curtain's drawn, your legend's breathing

They always love you when you're dead

Oblivion has a new star

Ain't that a final kick in the head

How everyone loves you when you're dead