'67: Come Back as a Cockroach - The Magnetic Fields

Be nice or come back as a cockroach

Think twice before being cruel

Those who are unlawful

Will be something awful

When the wheel of life revolves

Flesh dissolves

Behave or demons will devour you

They crave the meat of bad boys

They find most delicious

The fresh flesh of vicious

Tots who would deny the Lamb

What a scam

How could one come back as a cockroach?

Why would a spirit eat meat?

I was a dyspeptic

Epileptic skeptic

Other kids ask «why?»

at two

I still do

I want to come back as a cockroach

Or haunt some drafty mansion

I’m the kind of chil’n

Wants to be the villain

Always separate from the pack

Dressed in black

I’m still a dreadful goody-goody

Won’t kill an innocent flea

From the time I began

I was mostly vegan

Let that little cockroach be

Don’t kill me