Our Coastal Hymn

Rally up my friends

And stand by my bedside,

If I die tonight

Put my head inside a mason jar.

Put it in the ocean

And send it out to sea.

I'm wading because...

And when I hit some shore,

And when my seal is broke,

I'll split my eyes and lips asking,

"Is this a judgment or a joke?"

This is a chance to dissect it.

This is a chance to make it up.

These are the words we've selected.

Don't believe my lies

Of an afterlife spent drifting;

After 40 hours

I sank straight to the bottom

Of the harbor near my home

And there I lay alone,

The spider crab

Is finely clad

Beneath my cloak of brain and bone.

In the basement of the dress shop,

They play poker on the weekends.

Old men trading laces,

It's an absolute disgrace.

They never gave a tip

To the boy who ran the route.

They never gave a shit

What the paper was about,

But when they heard he died

They read the news that day

Just so they could see

What his obituary would say.

It said:

"Rally up my friends

And stand by my bedside!

Rally up my friends

And stay with me tonight!"