Bury me standing

Bury me standing lyrics

Verse 1

In the valley chapel yard at dusk,
I rake your name from the wet black stone.
Leaves cling like tongues to the family plot,
And the sky keeps its counsel over bone.
Your mother’s roses are all gone blind,
Your father’s gate leans tired and slow.
I brush off moss with my bare right hand,
Like I’m asking the dead to let me go.

Pre-Chorus

But I don’t go.
I stand my ground.
If love is a debt,
then let it be found.
I’ve come this far
with my hands unshod,
and I swear to you,
I’m still in God.

Chorus

Bury me standing
(standing!)
Bury me standing
(standing!)
Let the bell say yes,
let the dirt know why.
Bury me standing
(take my vow)

Verse 2

I set your sister’s lilies back in line,
I clear the grit from the little brass plate.
The wind in the yews has a bitter mouth,
Still, I wait like a fool outside your gate.
If your kin would count me a poor man now,
I’ll wear that coat till the cloth gives way.
I’ve got no ring but a callused hand,
And I’ll love you harder for every day.

Pre-Chorus

And if my knees
turn weak and thin,
I’ll lean on prayer
and I’ll lean back in.
The chapel sighs,
the clay gives room,
but I’m not finished
with your name at noon.

Chorus

Bury me standing
(standing!)
Bury me standing
(standing!)
Let the bell say yes,
let the dirt know why.
Bury me standing
(take my vow)

Bridge

When the dusk comes down
and the crows go low,
I hear your laugh
in the broken yew.
If I fall, I fall
with my face to you,
but I’d rather break
than not come through.

Bury me standing
(standing!)
Bury me standing
(standing!)
Let the bell say yes,
let the dirt know why.
Bury me standing
(standing!)
Bury me standing
(standing!)
Till my knees give out,
I will not lie.
Bury me standing
(whoa)
Bury me standing
(standing!)

Lyrics © Boulevard. Written for Owain Thorne, an AI artist.