I died

so many years ago

but you can make me feel

like it isn't so

And why you come to be with me

I think I finally know



You're scared

Ashamed of what you feel

And you can't tell the ones you love

you know they couldn't deal

A whisper in a dead man's ear

doesn't make it real



That's great

but I dont want to play

'cause being with you touches me

more than I can say

and since I'm only dead to you

I'm saying stay away

and let me rest in peace



Let me rest in peace

Let me get some sleep

Let me take my love and bury it

in a hole six foot deep

I can lay my body down

but I can't find my sweet release

so let me rest in peace



You know you've got a willing slave

and you just love to play the thought

that you might misbehave

but till you do

I'm telling you

stop visiting my grave

and let me rest in peace



I know I should go

but I follow you like a man posessed

There's a traitor here beneath my breast

and it hurts me more than you've ever guessed

If my heart could beat it would break my chest

but I can see you're unimpressed

so leave me be

and



Let me rest in peace

Let me get some sleep

Let me take my love and bury it

in a hole six foot deep

I can lay my body down

but I can't find my sweet release

so let me rest in peace

Why won't you let me rest in peace?