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If You Bury Me

from Way In Between by Nic Arp

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lyrics

If you bury me
Won’t you make it good and deep
And scatter through this dusty world
The things I cannot keep

And if you burn my body
Won’t you make my fire hot
And let my sparks go flying ‘round
The dreams that I forgot

I’m already home
I’m already up and gone

She talks to goats, she gathers scraps
That’s how she spends her days
She carries cans of chicken scratch
And snoozes in the hay
And after all these 80 years
She’s still amazed by the sky
She beams just like a little girl
Staring up into God’s eye

She’s already home
She’s already up and gone

The day my daddy died
We all gathered ‘round
It was just like watching
A feather settle down
His hands and dreams grew icy cold
It was time for him to rise
When the moment finally came
He opened up his eyes

He’s already home
He’s already up and gone

Miss Emily A. Brown
Was born in 1844
She died in ‘65
Just 21 years old
I walked across her grave one day
I was on my way to work
They had carved two roses in her stone
I brushed away the dirt

So if you bury me
Won’t you make it good and deep
And scatter through this dusty world
The things I cannot keep

And if you burn my body
Won’t you make my fire hot
And let my sparks go flying ‘round
The dreams that we forgot

We're all already home
We're already up and gone
We’re all already home
We’re already up and gone

credits

from Way In Between, released April 20, 2018
Nic Arp—songwriter, vox, guitar
Matt Bernemann—drums, percussion
Jennifer Horn-Frasier—bass, vox
Dave Rosazza--lead guitar, vox
Sean Seaton—keys

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Nic Arp Iowa City, Iowa

Nic Arp writes songs, and then he sings them. Other people write songs, and he sings them. He plays with kind and talented musicians.

He lives in Iowa City.

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