Verso 1:
Cm Gm Fm Priests and fools say C Gm Cm We are but animate clay Cm Gm Fm We're crude vessels Eb Gm Cm Housing immortal soulsG Cm But the dead only quickly decay Gm Cm They don't go about being born and reborn G Gm Cm And rising and falling like soufflé G Cm The dead only quickly decayVerso 2:
Gm Fm It would be swell Ab C Gm Cm To see some folk burn in hell Gm Fm But when they go Ab Gm Cm It's just as pleasant to knowG Cm But the dead only quickly decay Gm Cm They don't go about being born and reborn G Gm Cm And rising and falling like soufflé G Cm The dead only quickly decay