When I Dir

Verse 1

When I’m finally laid to rest,

Lay me down in earth, not dressed

In a box of polished wood,

Let me go the way I should

No flowers placed for eyes to see,

No display of what was me

Just the soil, soft and deep,

Let the roots be where I sleep

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Pre-Chorus

Don’t hold me in a frozen frame

Let me drift, let me change

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Chorus

When I die, let me become the ground

Let my soul in the silence be found

Turn my bones into life somehow

I am not gone, I’m here right now

In the wind, in the leaves, in the sky I’ll be free

When I die… I become the tree

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Verse 2

Don’t fill me full of chemicals

Don’t make death a spectacle

Lay me where the wild things grow

Let the seasons take me slow

Plant a seed above my chest

Let it drink what I have left

Every part I leave behind

Feeds the roots and feeds new time

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Pre-Chorus

Every atom finds its place

Nothing lost, just rearranged

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Chorus

When I die, let me become the ground

Let my soul in the silence be found

Turn my bones into life somehow

I am not gone, I’m here right now

In the wind, in the leaves, in the sky I’ll be free

When I die… I become the tree

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Bridge (slower, emotional lift)

I was dust before I breathed

I return to what I need

Minerals and memory

Growing into symmetry

Every life I’ll ever be

Starts again inside that seed

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Final Chorus (bigger, full band)

When I die, don’t you bury me down

Lift me up where the roots surround

Let me rise where the light can be

Not an ending… a becoming tree

In the rain, in the air, in the earth I’ll be free

When I die… I become the tree