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Die Alone

from Dolphin by Mike Farmer

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This is the second recording of "Die Alone" but not the last.

If I could have an orchestra play this song, I absolutely would. It deserves an orchestra. It's an epic.

Some people love this song and other people told me it makes them want to put a gun in their mouth. It's that good, I know.

That noise you hear at the end is me closing a door.

lyrics

When you die, all your children will look over you
and your spouse will hold your wrinkled hand
or so they say, but I
I don't know what I am going to do
but I can be sure that my life won't end that way

I will never start a family
That's the sort of thing I can't condone
I will live my life an anomaly
Thankfully I'm gonna die alone

How do you 9-to-5 with kids and wives
and ever more unhappy lives
Every day it's no surprise
Just bigger beer guts and thicker thighs
That young girl you loved, that old lady you hate
They're the same person, that's your fate
There's no such thing as diapers dry
How do you manage to get by?

I don't wanna be another worker drone
Who feeds and clothes and holds them when they cry and moan
And lets them stress me into strokes or kidney stones
Thankfully I'm gonna die alone

Everybody's telling me I need to settle down
"You need a car, you need a house, you need a plot of ground
Children are so precious. They give joy everyday."
Well pardon me if I don't want a 401K
What's so wrong with drunken fumbling 'round and one night stands
Going off to Vegas with your friends to split a gram
Being immature and getting in dumb fights
and going to the strip club because it's Tuesday night

but when you die
all your children will look over you
and your spouse will hold your wrinkled hand
Forget all that

Born with nothing, die with nothing
spend it in between
There will be no eulogy given at the scene
There will be mourners, there will be no God
just me in a burlap sack where no one finds it odd
Not even a gravestone marking my remains
No date of birth, no date of death
No shirts with crying stains
Happy to be gone but mostly glad that I was here
and I did it how I wanted
without agony or fear

I got to eat all the ice cream
I never paid the last bill on my phone
I'm glad I got no family to pay it when I'm dead
because thankfully I'm gonna die alone

I got so many memories I could write a book
No better life a human ever known
and you could disagree, but it's not a tragedy
They'll say hey that stupid bastard died
alone

credits

from Dolphin, released June 29, 2019
Mike Farmer - vocals, keyboards
Russell Brooks - guitar, bass, etc.
Nick Clark - drums

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Mike Farmer Whitesville, Kentucky

I have been making music for a long time, under a variety of aliases. I hope you like what you find. Kentucky Prophet is also available for streaming on Spotify in case you don't want to download.

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