Four men and one death

Four men and one death

a flick of my wrist

a snap of my fingers

a crack of my whip

a tap on my shoulder

I’m gone

I’m down

I’m dead

I should have been a salesman

there’s a body on the road

from the looks he’s quite a load

I could pick this body up

I could put him on the truck

there is quite a lot of room

for a quick and temporary tomb

we will drive him to his grave

for he’s too far gone to save

they brought me this corpse

this man, this life that’s run it’s course

I will cover up his face

I will dig his resting place

I will put him in the ground

I will fill it to a mound

when I finish with my fun

God will have him His will be done

As I wake I have this fear

for no sounds do I hear

it is dark and it is cold

does death have me in its hold

I cannot move my hand and arm

there it is again, I’ve bought the farm

but wait a second I must protest

there’s a beat inside my claustrophobic chest

it is my heart it does not lie

I’m alive I did not die

I hear a cry

Its from nearby

And while it is awful faint

Just a dream I’m sure it aint

I’m walking near the cemetery

And now I am awfully weary

But still this cry I can’t ignore

So I begin this dreadful chore

To find what it is I’m looking for

I zero in on that shrill whine

But its source I cannot find

I take ten minutes then ten again

The noise stops and that is when

I find the grave, I dig and dig

I find the box, it’s a big gig

I pry it open and there I find

A body that a soul has left behind