This is a song about someone who scrounged and saved their money their whole life — neither the subject of the song nor their family got the opportunity to enjoy life until the subject, eventually, dies.
[Verse 1]
Dresser drawers are filled with pocket change
Coupons cut smoked to the butt
Is this what dreams are made?
Adding up, subtracting down, you find
Yourself sucking the rind
[Refrain]
Dying degree
Graying amie
[Verse 2]
Final payment made, had you forgot
The rightful owner of one deluxe cemetery plot?
Paisley satin lined, how apropos
What a better way to go?
[Refrain]
Dying degree
Graying amie
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
No more eating crumbs
When my pension finally comes
You kids won't eat mush anymore 'round me
[Refrain]
Dying degree
Graying amie
[Outro]
Dying...
Dying Degree was written by Fat Mike.
Dying Degree was produced by Ryan Greene & Fat Mike.
NOFX released Dying Degree on Tue Jul 19 1994.