Slide Into My Grave

Doctor said slow down, take it easy

Friends keep sayin' I should "rest"

They say “slow down, honey

Take your pills, take your time”

But I see that sun keep climbing

And I’m racing every mile it climbs

I’ve seen those white-walled rooms

Plastic flowers, flickering light

That ain’t how this girl is going

I’ll be gone before they say goodnight

I won’t sit in a chair, lay in a bed

Hooked to a machine, being waited on ‘til I’m dead

I’ll keep going, won’t stop till I drop

Dust on my jeans, sweat on my neck, not a wrinkle left to save

If I got breath

I got plans

Put that white sheet

Back in the van

If I can move

Then I'm alive

Don't plan on watching

Life pass me by

I’m gonna slide into my grave

I want dirt under my fingernails

Coffee in a paper cup

Laugh lines cut a little deeper

From showing all the people up

I’ll take backroads over back pain

Bonfires over quiet halls

If I’m breathing, I’m still moving

If I’m falling, I’ll go laughing through it all

I won’t sit in a chair, lay in a bed

Hooked to a machine, being waited on ‘til I’m dead

I’ll keep going, won’t stop till I drop

Dust on my jeans, sweat on my neck, not a wrinkle left to save

If I got breath

I got plans

Put that white sheet

Back in the van

If I can move

Then I'm alive

Don't plan on watching

Life pass me by

I’m gonna slide into my grave

So pour one out when it’s over

Tell ‘em I never learned to behave

Heart wide open, tank on empty

Grinning as I ride that final wave

I won’t sit in a chair, lay in a bed

Hooked to a machine, being waited on ‘til I’m dead

I’ll keep going, won’t stop till I drop

If I can move

Then I'm alive

Don't plan on watching

Life pass me by

I’m gonna slide into my grave