What Happens When We Die - Luke Haines

Talking to a girl, crying down the phone

Now listen to me and try and catch your breath

She said do you see the fear when you look in my eyes

I’d really like to know what happens when we die

Loving couples together for years

Torn apart by their grieving

We can hardly cope with this level of emotion

Two people cannot mourn for years

A doctor from the north, a friend of the family

Is comforting your mother, drinking in the front room

I couldn’t make the funeral, I know it really hurt you

Right now it just seems to me everybody’s dying

(When we die, When we die, When we die, When we die…)

When I remember your father as a ghost

Not an old man diagnosed with cancer

Ten weeks later, lying in a hospice bed

Surrounded by loved ones, learning how to die

Talking to a stone, wailing at a grave

Maybe when a year has past, go and see a medium

Bury him with children, blame a suicide

I’d really like to know what happens when we die

Will the dead outnumber the living?

The silent majority, spare parts for surgery

We’re not bespoke, we’re not best fitted

I’d really like to know what happens when we die

When we die, When we die, When we die, I still miss you

I know I really miss you