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Cemetery

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Cemetery Lyrics

[Verse 1: Max Bemis]
There's a cemetery deep below the sea
They're the spaces reserved for fools like me
Tried to kill myself at least a dozen times
But nothing seemed to turn out right

[Verse 2: Max Bemis]
Now I'd rather wait a half a century
Soiling the bed, all belligerent and wrinkly
Even when I go blind and lose my mind
Nothing seems to turn out right
Something's got to turn out right

[Pre-Chorus: Max Bemis]
If you want, then when we die
We'll ascend to some place way up high
At gate they'll show you through
If they ask me, I'm with you

[Chorus: Max Bemis, Sherri Dupree-Bemis]
You're in my body
You're in my body
You're in my body
That's where I think about you
(You're in) In my body
(My body) You're in my body
(And that's where) You're in my body
(I think about you) That's where...
[Verse 3: Max Bemis]
There's no one who imagines like you
So convinced there's somewhere that we go to
Not a first class trip to the abyss
Tell me, do you still feel this?
Tell me, do you still feel this?

[Pre-Chorus 2: Max Bemis]
As I drown in lakes of fire
I will call your name as I expire
It's the last thing that I'll do
I will tell them I'm with you

[Chorus: Max Bemis, Sherri Dupree-Bemis]
You're in my body
You're in my body
You're in my body
That's where I think about you
(You're in) In my body
(My body) You're in my body
(And that's where) You're in my body
(I think about you) That's where...

[Bridge: Max Bemis]
Falling asleep, asleep at the wheel
As I approach that cliff, I'm starting to feel
If you can wake me up, with only a touch
I could die with you, life would be enough
Falling asleep, asleep at the wheel (Wake me up)
As I approach that cliff, I'm starting to feel
If you can wake me up, with only a touch (Wake me up)
I could die with you, life would be enough
[Guitar Solo]

[Pre-Chorus 3: Max Bemis]
And I'll face the one who made
My disgusting heart from a lump of clay
Should he ask what got me through
If he asks me, it was you

[Chorus: Max Bemis, Sherri Dupree-Bemis]
You're in my body, you're
You're in my body
You're in my body
That's where I think about you
(You're in) In my body, you're
(My body) You're in my body
(And that's where) You're in my body
(I think about you) That's where I think about you
(You're in) In my body, you're
(My body) You're in my body
(And that's where) You're in my body
(I think about you) That's where I think about you

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Vocalist and primary lyricist Max Bemis told Alternative Press: “This is a song about death and how love relates to death, and the fear of death. It’s kind of about how finding love alleviated my fear of death or my fear of growing old. It was a statement of recognizing my soul’s link to [wife] Sherri’s. It’s about how when you really love someone and it’s deep in your soul, after you die the soul endures and that love will burn on. If everything was stripped away and I had to answer after I die – consciously affirm the most important thing in my life–it would be Sherri, the defining thing in my life.” (Copied from

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November 3, 2009
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