Build Me A Coffin Lyrics - John Wesley Harding

When there's not enough rigor but there's too much rigor mortis 

You've got to ration love because you know that there's a shortage 

She'll take you with a pinch of salt 

And she'll give you no quarter 

She's the queen of the short order 

And you're a one-armed bandit 

Gambling on a crash 

Wearing a pair of silly glasses and a baby's wax moustache 

In disguise 

Like a schoolboy playing superspy 

I'm gonna build me a coffin and get right in 

Sometimes it's too much to see what's happening around me 

I'm gonna build me a coffin and get right in 

Sometimes it's too much to see what's happening around me 

What's happening around me 

Given the fact that you're losing, someone has already won 

If you're finding life a bastard, someone somewhere's having fun 

You're hooked and lined and sinkered but she'll 

Throw you right back in again 

A game of pool would do your head in 

You know that Hell just isn't some kinda bottomless pit 

It's a chair in a long white corridor and you're sitting in it 

With clenched fists 

The lifestyles of the rich and hopeless 

I'm gonna build me a coffin and get right in 

Sometimes it's too much to see what's happening around me 

I'm gonna build me a coffin and get right in 

Sometimes it's too much to see what's happening around me 

What's happening around me 

And they say that a change is gonna come 

So just perhaps you're not the only one 

They say that a change is gonna come 

Why the hell are you acting deaf, blind, dumb 

They say that a change is gonna come 

Troops are camping at the border and of course they're champing at the bit 

The concert's all security, you've bought your seat so sit in it 

New features in the market square, it's just behind the porn exchange 

Free executions here so all change 

You know this town is a free for all, so please flash your cash 

There's a big sale at the supermarket, garbage, pills and trash 

Mind that ash 

Big sister's missed the boat again 

So I'm gonna build me a coffin and get right in 

Sometimes it's too much to see what's happening around me 

I'm gonna build me a coffin and get right in 

Sometimes it's too much to see what's happening around me 

What's happening around me 

What's happening around me 

I'm gonna build me a coffin and get right in