When You Arrive Songtext
von Bruce Cockburn

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

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

And the dead shall sing
To the living and the semi-alive
Bells will ring when you arrive

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


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)

The dead shall sing
To the living and the semi-alive
Bells will ring when you arrive
When you arrive