My Short Life

words by Gerry Bretzke and Howard Ashby Kranz

music copyright by Howard Ashby Kranz

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1. I’ve spent so much lifetime striving to be wise.

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Now I ghost dance in the headlights of my imminent demise

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I never asked to be standing on this cliff

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But since we’re here, let’s talk about what is; don’t care so much about what if.

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Chorus: Welcome, friend, to my short life. Take a minute, have a bite

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Let’s tell each other everything that we know.

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Never mind that grinning skull; I talk best when my mouth is full

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And heaven is what you got in here when you go.

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2. Now my first choice would be to live on forever,

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barbecuing and spreading gossip about God and life, whatever.

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I have no doubt that the Lord has some great plan

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but his outcomes aren’t always so great for the individual man.

Chorus

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3. It’s not healthy staring at that black wall wondering.

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Whether to be more scared that nothing happens or that something

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So I’m dying, but I’m not living in a cave

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If things get slow, maybe we’ll auction off the right to piss on my grave.