City and Colour – Body In a Box

Staying on the topic of the fast approaching Juno Awards, tonight’s song comes from an artist who will be performing at the award show this Sunday.  City and Colour, the solo side-project of Canadian singer/songwriter Dallas Green, will be returning to the stage where it won the award for Alternative Album of the Year in 2007.  Body In a Box can be found on City and Colour’s latest album Bring Me Your Love, which was released in February of 2008.  The album would debut at #11 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart in March 2008.

There’s a funeral procession on the highway,
Traffic screeches to a halt.
There’s people searching for a better way,
To live their lives.
Johnny lived a good life, you’ll hear them say
As tears of sadness soak the ground.
The reaper crept in, took his breath away,
In the middle of the night.

[Chorus:]
We celebrate the lives of the dead,
It’s like a man’s best party, only happens when he dies.
We gather ’round to pay our respects,
While their souls are still searching for the light,
Searching for the light.

So please don’t come to me on my dying day,
Just let me go in peace.
With all the things that I forgot to say,
Racing through my mind.
And don’t you bury me six feet under ground,
Just burn my body in a box.
And let my ashes blow with the wind,
Out into the night sky.

[Chorus]