When I Was Done Dying Songtext
von Dan Deacon

When I was done dying, my conscience regained
So I began my struggle, a nothingness strained
Out of a flash made of time, my new form blasted out
And it startled me so, and I burst out a shout

Which my legs ran frantic like birds from a nest
And I ran until drained, leaving no choice but rest
So I feel asleep softly at the edge of a cave
But I should′ve gone deeper, but I'm not so brave

And like that I was torn out and thrown in the sky
And I said all my prayers because surely I′ll die
As I crashed down and smashed into earth, into dirt
How my skin did explode, leaving only my shirt


But from shirt grew a tree and that tree grew a fruit
And I became the seed and that seed was a brute
And I clawed through the ground with my roots and my leaves
And I tore up the shirt and I ate up the sleeves
And they laughed at me and said 'what is your plan?'
But their question was foreign, I did not understand
When then suddenly I′m ripped up and placed in a mouth
And it swallowed me down each time I head South (I said...)

I woke up to see them, these two mighty steeds
With there mouths grinning wildly expressing my needs
As they stood there above me, being flanked on each side
I felt no need to fear them
No reason to hide
So I reached up to touch
But they faded too soon
Yet their mouth still remained
And stacked up towards the moon

How that ladder of mouth waved so soft in the night
And I looked up in awe of that beautiful sight
As I dreamt about climbing into the night sky
But know had I touched them they′d mouth back
'Bye, bye′


So I got up and walked down the path in the dark
And there, deep in the distance, my eye caught a spark
Of a crab twice my size with incredible strength
Though it greeted me kindly
And then we all drank
Yeah we drooled out together
Right onto the ground

And the ocean grew quickly
Right up all around
And the Earth looked at me
And said: 'wasn′t that fun?
And I replied: I'm sorry, if I hurt anyone
And without even thinking
Cast me into space

But before she did that
She wiped off my own face
She said better luck next time
Don′t worry so much
Without ears I couldnt hear
I could just feel the touch
As I fell asleep softly at the edge of a cave
But I should have gone deeper
But I'm not so brave I said