If It Kills Me - The Rumjacks

If it kills me, snuffs out the lamp for ever more

Kicks me senseless, leaves me bleedin' at your door

At least it won’t hurt anymore

Theres a screamin' in my head

And a rattlin' deep inside

And it wasn’t the dozen odd jars that I swallowed last night

I just don’t feel right

If it rises in my throat and I fall down chokin'

Just drag me out o’er the old hill

If it kills me… and it probably will

When it comes in ashen robes to claim me in the night

Will you polish my brogues and button my collar down tight

Christ, I must look a sight

When they carry me away don’t let 'em hear you cry

Or thankin' the saints that I finally fucked off and died

I was leavin' anyway

If it snatches me away or it takes me slow

Like cheap liquor and homemade pills

If it kills me… and it probably will

Oh one man’s shit is another man’s sugar, just leave it outside and you’ll see

It’s gone the same day though tonight you’ll bring someone else’s old shit home

to me

You squander your favours like a bawdy old sailor and laugh while I beg for the

change

Oh, you’re cruel and you’re strange

Will you see me?

Will I cross your room each night?

Or do the sulphurous lamps of this city all burn too bright?

You should really get away

From the concrete and the wire, the long and angry days

Y’know they’re hardly the stuff to set your soul ablaze

You’ve been smoulderin' for years

If it rips through my veins, tears me flesh from bone

I’ll hear the voices of the faithful «You'll never walk alone…»

If it kills me, if you wake and I’m gone

If I’m dust on the wind and you’re left to your own

I’ll love you… if it kills me

And it probably will