After We're Dead

If you don't mind and have time to spare
Lend me just a moment before we're thin air
Between now and then: A brief interruption of nothing
We were just here a moment ago
I lost track for just a moment and found myself all alone
I left you some songs, some rights and wrongs
Some trivial words, some pain and some joy
Some blame and some praise, the sum of my days

All these stories, they must end
After our storytellers are dead
And the songs we have sung lose their tune
Share my stories, joke with friends
Talk about me long after I'm dead
And I promise the same thing for you

Just like the first time I told you I loved you
High on cocaine and all my thoughts of you
These hidden gems: A brief celebration of nothing
We were just there a moment ago
We lost track for only a moment
And found ourselves hand in hand
We wrote some words that cry to be heard
That want to endure, that want to spill blood
That want to breathe life, that want to be loved