What now?
A comment left on a lyrics site for a song I love, “Soon we’ll be dead” by Leftover Crack. The comment completely hit home as it is absolutely correct from my opinon. It is left by someone who knew some of the members of Leftover Crack before they became Leftover Crack.
“in our lives if you make it past 30 you’re over the hill and it’s only because you didn’t die of heroin when you used to or still do dope, after 35 as some of us are finding out if ya made it past heroin the alcohol from the hep-c that developed into cirrhosis kills ya by 35-40. i’m 33 failing liver, don’t dink anymore and never planned for life lasting this long and neither did they. when you wake up, you wonder who died today and amazing that you woke up. knowing him i’d say this song is a mixture of numbness, envy, and there’s also the image of all of them standing together toasting their chalices to us as we spill our 40 oz.”
The lyrics to “Soon we’ll be dead” by Leftover Crack:
Soon I’ll be dead, I’ll lay in my bed
I’ve made in my years, I won’t shed a tear
We’re all guilty anyways
The dumb games we all play
All tarnished and scarred, when did life get so hard?
We’ll drink to auld lang syne,
With fortified wine,
We’ll drink to tymes olde from pitchers of gold.
Soon we’ll be dead,
To death we’ll be wed,
We’ll slip on the ring, it ain’t a big thing
And though you may curse ‘thee’,
We’re angels of mercy
And sometimes we fall; ya can’t win them all.
(Or can you?)
I’ll pass out at dawn,
And dream of friends gone.
As the morbid embrace warms over my face.
And soon we’ll be dead, (Yeah, soon we’ll be dead)
Our brains and our heads, (My brains and my head)
They’ve always forgotten, when did life get so rotten?
Soon I’ll be dead,
I’ll lay in my bed.
I’ve made in my years, I won’t shed a tear
Soon we’ll be dead, (Soon we’ll be dead)
We’ll lay in our beds, (We’ll lay in our beds)
We’ve made in our years, we won’t shed a tear.
Soon we’ll be dead,
Our brains and our heads,
They’ve always forgotten, when did life get so rotten? (Yeah)
We won’t shed a tear…
