BREAK ME DOWN
Words and music by Sarah McQuaid
Recorded on If We Dig Any Deeper It Could Get Dangerous (2018)
You can keep your oaken coffin
You can keep your funeral urn
I don’t want any stone above me
I don’t want my body burned
Don’t want to wind up like a pharaoh
Mummified in a museum
I don’t want to be a prisoner
In some marble mausoleum
Let me return to the earth
When I end my days
I want the sweetest flowers
Growing over my grave
Let me crumble, dust to dust, underground
Break me down
If my organs are of use
I hope they find a happy home
Now put away that heavy makeup
I won’t need it where I’m going
When I die just dig me under
Let my bones enrich the soil
I’ve got some prime organic matter on me
Shame to let it spoil
Let me return to the earth
When I end my days
I want the sweetest flowers
Growing over my grave
Let me crumble, dust to dust, underground
Break me down
Break me down till I am nothing
Break me down till I am one
With the good earth
Bringing better growth in time to come
You can keep your oaken coffin
You can keep your funeral urn
I don’t want any stone above me
I don’t want my body burned
Don’t want to wind up like a pharaoh
Mummified in a museum
I don’t want to be a prisoner
In some marble mausoleum
Let me return to the earth
When I end my days
I want the sweetest flowers
Growing over my grave
Let me crumble, dust to dust, underground
Break me down
Break me down
Break me down
