Priests and fools say	Cm Gm Gm/Bb F
We are but animate clay	Fm/Ab Eb G Cm
Rude vessels	Cm Gm Gm/Bb F
Housing immortal souls	Fm/Ab Eb G Cm

But the dead only quickly decay	G Cm
They don't go about being born and reborn	G Cm
And rising and falling like soufflé	G Cm
The dead only quickly decay	G Cm

It would be swell	Cm Gm Gm/Bb F
To see some folk burn in hell	Fm/Ab Eb G Cm
But when they go	Cm Gm Gm/Bb F
It's just pleasant to know	Fm/Ab Eb G Cm

That the dead only quickly decay	G Cm
They don't go about being born and reborn	G Cm
And rising and falling like soufflé	G Cm
The dead only quickly decay	G Cm