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Maybe Lyrics by Dan Reeder

This New Century

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[Verse 1]
The first guy I knew who died
I can't remember his name
The tenth grade started, he just never came again
All his friends sat around and cried for a day or two

You can say what you want about immortal soul
When that guy died it left a hole
It was my first clue
That when they're gone, they're gone

[Chorus]
Maybe Jesus beat that rap, we're not sure
Maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
Or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven
Or the other way, but from down here it appears
That when they're gone, they're gone

[Verse 2]
Me and Stevie Gibson used to walk home from school
He used to have this little turn around rule
If you turn around the one way
Gotta turn around the other way or it's bad luck

He went out raftin' on the river
The river went around and the raft went around
And his luck got all wound up and he drowned
And he was gone

[Chorus]
Maybe Jesus beat that rap, we're not sure
Maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
Or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven
Or the other way, but from down here it appears
That when they're gone, they're gone

[Verse 3]
Two weeks after Dieter died, you could call him on the phone
And he would tell you that he's not home
And it gave you an eerie feeling even though you knew
It was just an answering machine

'Cause somewhere deep inside you know
That they don't come back when they go
And he had gone
And when they're gone, they're gone

[Chorus]
Maybe Jesus beat that rap, we're not sure
Maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
Or maybe you'll come back some day as a bug in a lawn

Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven
Or the other way, but from down here it appears
That when they're gone, they're gone

[Verse 4]
My mother died in intensive care
We were sittin' around singin' on folding chairs
When I got the feeling somebody wasn't there

Well I counted noses but it came out right
The doctors say she died that night
But I felt that hole and I knew that she was gone

[Chorus]
Maybe Jesus beat that rap, we're not sure
Maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
Or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven
Or the other way, but from down here it appears
That when they're gone, they're gone

[Verse 5]
I looked up "death" in the dictionary one day
Just to see what the dictionary had to say
It's the complete and irreversible cessation of life functions

Which is not very poetic but it's precise and clean
And if you analyze it what that means is
When they're gone, they're gone

[Chorus]
Maybe Jesus beat that rap, we're not sure
Maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
Or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven
Or the other way, but from down here it appears
That when they're gone, they're gone
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Dan Reeder

Dan Reeder

About “Maybe” by Dan Reeder

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"Maybe" is credited to Dan Reeder. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Maybe" appears on "This New Century".

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