After All (The Dead) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
What do you say to the dead?
Will you forgive me for living?
Can't believe the things that they said
Wonderful day for a killing, it's killing me
[Verse 2]
What do they do with your soul?
Is it just lying there busted?
When did you lose all control?
Is there someone to be trusted with my mind?
[Verse 3]
Oh there's insufficient evidence
Of what just might come after
But sometimes out of nowhere
There's demented sounds of laughter
[Verse 4]
Are we all haunted by the ghost, imagination, it just can't be
I've seen them there, howling at the moon
Is it just me or does somebody else believe this?
Well I'm not alone and I'm not afraid
There's just one way to see
[Chorus]
After all, after all
After all, after all
What do you say to the dead?
Will you forgive me for living?
Can't believe the things that they said
Wonderful day for a killing, it's killing me
[Verse 2]
What do they do with your soul?
Is it just lying there busted?
When did you lose all control?
Is there someone to be trusted with my mind?
[Verse 3]
Oh there's insufficient evidence
Of what just might come after
But sometimes out of nowhere
There's demented sounds of laughter
[Verse 4]
Are we all haunted by the ghost, imagination, it just can't be
I've seen them there, howling at the moon
Is it just me or does somebody else believe this?
Well I'm not alone and I'm not afraid
There's just one way to see
[Chorus]
After all, after all
After all, after all
[Verse 5]
What do you say to the dead?
Is there a place where it's burning?
It says in a book I once read
Yes, there's a chance of returning, turn to me
[Verse 6]
The fundamental principles, say nothing of forever
But those are voices that I hear or I'm just not so clever
It can't be me, I know somebody else believes this
Well I'm not alone, I'm not afraid, just one way to see
[Chorus]
After all, after all
Coming after all
After all, after all
After all, after all...
What do you say to the dead?
Is there a place where it's burning?
It says in a book I once read
Yes, there's a chance of returning, turn to me
[Verse 6]
The fundamental principles, say nothing of forever
But those are voices that I hear or I'm just not so clever
It can't be me, I know somebody else believes this
Well I'm not alone, I'm not afraid, just one way to see
[Chorus]
After all, after all
Coming after all
After all, after all
After all, after all...
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Genius Annotation
This song is about questions of the afterlife you would want to ask to a dead person. The only way to find out what comes after this life is, of course, death.
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Rockfield Studios, Rockfield, Monmouthshire, Wales
Release Date
June 20, 1992
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