Paramedics brave and strong  Up before the break of dawn  Putting poker faces on  Broken bodies all day long    The neighbors heard a fight  Someone had a knife  It must have been the wife  Husband's lost a lot of blood  He wakes up screaming "Oh my God  Am I gonna die, am I gonna die?"  As they strapped his arms down to his sides  Times like these they've been taught to lie  "Buddy just calm down. You'll be alright"    Several friends came to his grave  His children were so well behaved  As the priest got up to speak  The assembly craved relief  But he himself had given up  So instead he offered them this bitter cup    "Your gonna die  We're all gonna die  Could be twenty years  Could be tonight  Lately I have been wondering why  We go to so much trouble  To postpone the unavoidable  And prolong the pain of being alive"