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When I'm Dead (Single)

by Lauren Hoffman

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Sven B. Schreiber (sbs) I just love this song because of the music - and even more for the great tongue-in-cheek lyrics. Gives me a perpetual smile on my face. Regarding the music, Bob Dylan couldn't have done it better way back then.
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robeau We love you now..

I love the good natured humor and thoughtful ideas about how death changes peoples love or appreciation for someone.

I love the break toward the end and laughing and continuing. That was so fun! - and thought provoking, of course. :)
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Chords:
G - G - C - D
Em - G - C D
C - C - G - Em
C - C - C - D
G - G

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Hey by the way I’m feeling better.
I don’t know why.
I’m glad when the highs are high
and sad when the lows blow
Oh I know you think I’m special
But it’s gonna be more eventful
When I’m lying in my grave
You’re gonna cover all the sad songs that I made

You’re gonna love me when I’m dead
And it’s gonna go to my head
You’re gonna love me so much more
Than you ever did before
You’re gonna love me when I’m a goner
You’re gonna see how much I had to offer
But sometimes I wish you loved me now
Like you’re gonna love me
When I’m dead

I’m not suicidal
It’s just my sense of humor
I’ll probably die a long time from now
From a blood clot or a tumor
Isn’t it weird that we all die?
How do you deal with that inside?
Do you lie awake at night
Wondering what all of that nothingness feels like?

OH! MY God!
Is just a thing I say
Cuz I don’t believe
That there’s a God anyway
But I know us humans are stupid
And I’m gonna prove it
When my songs live on and on
And you realize I was a genius when I’m gone

You’re gonna love me when I’m dead
And it’s gonna go to my head
You’re gonna love me so much more
Than you ever did before
You’re gonna love me when I’m a goner
You’re gonna see how much I had to offer
But sometimes I wish you loved me now
Like you’re gonna love me
When I’m dead

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released December 9, 2020

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Lauren Hoffman Los Angeles, California

music is exceptionally useful for communicating the nuance and complexity of the human experience because it is an emotional language, we process and respond to it in a different way than thoughts, beyond the limits of linguistics. that's why it's special and mysterious and i love it. that's why i write and sing and play instruments and make records. that's why i share my songs with you. ... more

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