[Verso 1]
Cm                Gm    Fm 
Priests and fools say 
   C       Gm      Cm 
We are but animate clay 
Cm          Gm       Fm 
We're crude vessels 
Eb      Gm       Cm 
Housing immortal souls 


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

 
[Verso 2]
           Gm    Fm 
It would be swell 
   Ab       C    Gm      Cm 
To see some folk burn in hell 
              Gm   Fm 
But when they go 
     Ab      Gm          Cm 
It's just as pleasant to know 


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