Birthday Song

[Verse 1]
I have a full tank of gas, an empty ashtray
Something to do, that won't wait a day
We'll arrive in twelve hours if we do our best
We'll come in, say goodbye, and then you can rest

[Pre-Chorus]
You were with me on the day I was born
In the utopia [?] sycamore
And I was with you on the day that I cried
I'll think of you for the rest of my life

[Chorus]
Soul slips away
Soul slips away
To a place past our grief, to a world beyond pain
Soul slips away

[Verse 2]
You broke down walls, you were a force
Couldn't sit idly by, let life take its course
We had your last drink and we smoked your last smoke
Abandoned your body, your broken down host

[Pre-Chorus]
You're in the wind and you're in the elm tree
That stands in the place sacred to me
Your energy lives in our memory
And all of the beauty you left us to see

[Chorus]
Soul slips away
Soul slips away
To a place past our grief, to a world beyond pain
Soul slips away
Soul slipped today
It's just a phase that we'll all face some day
When our soul slips away

[Outro]
So long, it's been good to know you
So long, it's been good to know you
So long, it's been good to know you
But dusty old dust is [?], and I got to be moving along