Cancel my funeral   Push back the soil   Wipe the tears away   Take back the words you said   Oh Preacher, I'm not dead   Cancel my funeral   Don't take another look   Or waste another word I'm   (I'm right here waiting)   I know you look scared   This is the only way to   (To keep from dying)   It's just enough time   To make this blood stop   Please receive me   Just, don't say, good-bye   And as the plane crashed down   I thought you said "let go"   And as our bodies burn   I felt you say "hold on"   I knew that I would never be   Like one who had no hope   So you, Cancel my funeral   Push back the soil   Wipe the tears away   Take back the words you said   Oh Preacher, I'm not dead   Cancel my funeral   This time we've had   Flashed in my eyes   And as the plane crashed down   I felt you sigh   (This is over, this is over, this over now)   I begged to never count the days   Beg to never live a better day   Only to maintain   That this is over, this is over now   And as I woke up   I realized the things I've said   The plans I've made   They can't happen until I'm dead   Dead to myself, but alive in you   Cancel my funeral   Push back the soil   Wipe the tears away   Take back the words you said   Oh Preacher, I'm not dead   Cancel my funeral now