FINAL THOUGHTS

Scientists have come up with this dandy new information: when the body dies, the brain lives on a little longer, using up the final drops of oxygen to fuel the synapses and think it over, aware that you have died – goddamn – so this is about those moments of final thoughts

D Here I lie, just a few minutes left.

Some final thoughts now that I’m dead.

First, this nonsense about the brain living on

That’s one of those things just doesn’t need to be said

G Somewhere apart from religion and science

Some things just don’t need to be said

A But I feel no pain, can’t say what it means

It might be different for you, than it is for me

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D I always knew I was just a regular guy

Worked and played, chased women and worried

I would die in battle with a giant snake

Always in a hurry

G And God if you’re there, Oh didn’t you say

It was a snake caused all this trouble in the first place (So that’s no way to die)

CHORUS

A B- C G Life was so trippy and tricky, a riot of thoughts and feelings

From the moment it began

What happens now I don’t know, I was just trying to do the best with what I can

Trying to do the best with what I can

D I saw a girl and she walked like a ballet dancer

I thought yes I sure like the ballet

I saw a girl and she walked like figure skater

Thought yeah I kinda like ice capades

G I saw a girl who walked like a sailor

I thought yeah I sure like the ballet

A I saw a whole lot of people who just looked

Like a whole lot of other people

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D As a child I cried from a little pain

And I cried when I lost my baseball glove

As a grown man I cried from all the guilt and shame

Now I cry for all the beauty and love

G It’s much too late for regrets or trick questions

And I’m not in the mood for trick answers

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CHORUS

A B- C G Life was so trippy and tricky, a riot of thoughts and feelings

From the moment it began

What happens now I don’t know, I was just trying to do the best with what I can

Trying to do the best with what I can

D So you’re dying to hear about the meaning of life

Or some secret to happiness, wisdom and wealth

Well it don’t mean shit, and the dead don’t lie

That must have been a secret I kept from myself

G The most beautiful people are children of mixed race

I think there’s got to be some meaning to that

G And maybe there’s meaning in the love that we leave

But I’m thinking it’s the love we take with us

A To the universe, although it already knows

It has always known, and it will always know

A B- C G CHORUS

Tag: Still trying to the best with what I can

I’ll try to do the best, now that I can