When I Die (Don't Let Me Go)

[Verse 1]
Worked my fingers
Down to bone
Mama's picture
By the phone
Every paycheck
Barely lands
Still I hold you
In these hands
[Pre-Chorus]
All this time
All this trying
Every day
I keep buying
One more chance
At your love
[Chorus]
Blood
Sweat and tears
I gave you all of mine
I wore my heart down
One beat at a time
If I should fall
Baby
One day when I die
Don't let me go
Don't let me drift from your mind
(oh, don't forget me)
Don't let me go
Don't let me fall from your mind
[Verse 2]
Scuffed-up shoes and
Second shift
Your red lipstick
On my lips
Tiny kitchen
Cheap red wine
But it felt like
Paradise
[Pre-Chorus]
If I fade
If I stumble
If this proud old world crumbles
Promise me
You’ll still hear
[Chorus]
Blood
Sweat and tears
I gave you all of mine
I wore my heart down
One beat at a time
If I should fall
Baby
One day when I die
Don't let me go
Don't let me drift from your mind
(oh, remember)
Don't let me go
Don't let me fall from your mind
[Bridge]
Lay me down in that Sunday suit
Sing my name like a hallelujah
Tell our story on a front porch swing
Hold my love in every little thing
(yeah, every little thing)
[Chorus]
Blood
Sweat and tears
I gave you all of mine
I wore my heart down
One beat at a time
If I should fall
Baby
One day when I die
Don't let me go
Don't let me drift from your mind
(oh, don't forget me)
Don't let me go
Don't let me fall from your mind

Vintage 1950s soul ballad with male vocals, slow 6/8 sway, tremolo guitar and warm upright piano, brushed kit and walking bass. Verses stay intimate and hushed; chorus blooms with call‑and‑response backing vocals and churchy organ swells. Final chorus pushes the vocal into raw, pleading territory, then fades on stacked harmonies and soft horn pads., soul