Let the sky grow dark With a heavy heart Let the funeral start Let the funeral start Suddenly it seemed, love was just a dream On a TV screen, In a magazine Mother please hold on, brother please, be strong Yeah they played this song, we all sang along I see trees of green, red roses too Scattered out for you, on gravestone, new I'm twelve years older, I can't stay sober And there's a bluebird in my heart that's caged and it can't sing So fill your bloodlines up with bourbon kid and this won't sting It's like the slowing of your senses just might solve something Let the mourners of St. Paul's lead the parade Suddenly it seems, I'm settled in my old routines Another year has gone, I still sing the same sad song So when the snow is finally clear, I'm gonna swim away from here And wake my father's bones, drag his ghost into the road This house could hold nothing but melodies So sombre, such miserable memory Three cheers for love of the simplest kind Let's drink to all that we've left behind Let the funeral start Let the funeral start Let the funeral start Let the funeral start Suddenly it seems, I'm settled in my old routines Another year has gone, I still sing the same sad song Let the sky grow dark, with a heavy heart Let the funeral start (Let the funeral start) Let the funeral start (Let the funeral start)