When I Died - The Thermals

The Earth was too hot

The air was too thin

I took off my clothes

I took off my skin

I crawled to the sea

That was crawling from me

So I could swim…

Yeah, so I could swim!

I was sick of the land

I was sick from the heat

I was sick of the sun and the sky and the trees

Over the air that I needed to breathe

When I held with my hands

When I walked on my feet

I took off my clothes

I took off my skin

Started shedding my arms

To start getting my fins

Crawled to the sea that was calling for me

So I could swim, swim the ocean wide

I was only just past the low tide

When I died

When I died

Yeah when I died

My head did swell

I said to myself

Nature sure took its sweet time

I was already losing my spine

I was sick with horror when my curtain fell

It’s the end of the story I was certain to tell

Watching their faces as they pulled me from the sea

Feeling for the place I thought my gills would be

Busted and wrecked

Justly infected

My body beyond repair

Had no objection sir

My only questions were

Where do I go and will I know when I’m there

But I really couldn’t say that I cared

When I died

When I died

Yeah when I died

My head did swell

I said to myself

Nature sure took its sweet time

I was already losing, yeah!, my spine

I was already losing my spine

But life was short

At least it was short

The Earth was too hot

The air was too thin

I took off my clothes

I took off my skin

I crawled to the sea

That was crawling from me

So I could swim…

Yeah, so I could swim!

When I died

When I died

Yeah when I died

My head did swell

I said to myself

Nature sure took its sweet time

I was already losing, yeah!, my spine