When You Arrive

[Verse 1]
Breakfast was Mahler and coffee
Dinner's Lightnin' Hopkins and rye
Everything you say comes back to bite you
These days only beauty makes you cry

[Verse 2]
The chapel is closed for the COVID
Black mold owns the city by the sea
Dew-beaded cobweb in the moonlight—
Halo for a saint who's yet to be

[Chorus]
And the dead shall sing
To the living and the semi-alive
Bells will ring
When you arrive

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
You're limping like a three-legged canine
Backbone creaking like a cheap shoe
Dragging the accretions of a lifetime
But you oughta make another mile or two

[Chorus]
And the dead shall sing
To the living and the semi-alive
Bells will ring
When you arrive
The dead shall sing
To the living and the semi-alive
Bells will ring
When you arrive
The dead shall sing
To the living and the semi-alive
Bells will ring
When you arrive
I said, the dead shall sing
To the living and the semi-alive
Bells will ring
When you arrive (One more time now)
The dead shall sing
To the living and the semi-alive
Bells will ring
When you arrive
When you arrive