Priests And Paramedics

Paramedics brave and strong

Up before the break of dawn

Putting poker faces on

Broken bodies all day long

The neighbors heard a fight

Someone had a knife

It must have have been the wife

Husband's lost a lot of blood

He wakes up screaming

"Oh my god, am I gonna die?

Am I gonna die?"

As they strapped his arms down to his sides

At times like these they'd been taught to lie

"Buddy just calm down, you'll be alright."

Several friends came to his grave

His children were so well-behaved

As the priest got up to speak

The assembly craved relief

But he himself had given up

So instead he offered them this bitter cup

"You're gonna die, we're all gonna die

Could be twenty years, could be tonight

Lately I have been wondering why

We go to so much trouble to postpone the unavoidable

And prolong the pain of being alive"