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Not Gonna Die

from Bladfold by David Nixon and Daniel Spils

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I try to talk about your impending death.
You say, “Son, I’m not gonna die.”
“But you’ve got an incurable fatal disease.”
You say, “I know son.
And that’s why the world is gonna notice when I kick this thing.
I’m gonna show them the power of daimoku.
They’ll be so surprised when Brad is alive
and I’ll finally get my due.”
So you tell the doctors you won’t be needing resuscitation.
You’re depending on the power of chanting and meditation.
But it’s lonely in here
with the nurses mostly vacant.
When they know you’re gonna die,
they don’t have much patience.
No acolytes left,
just one or two friends who can’t stay long.
And then one day you throw up in your lungs
and you start to drown.
But you keep on chanting
though you can barely breathe,
Fighting to turn this thing around.

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from Bladfold, released September 7, 1942

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