I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead

I don't care about your karma

I don't care about what's hip

No space cadet's gonna tell me what to do

I won't swim in your jacuzzi

You can't make me settle down

I'd rather kick and jump and bite and scratch

And scream until I'm blue

I may as well be hyper

As long as I'm still around

'Cause I'll have lots of time to be laid back

When I'm six feet underground

I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I'll be mellow when I'm dead, I'll be mellow when I'm dead

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I'll be mellow when I'm dead, I'll be mellow when I'm dead

When are you, cosmic cowboys

Gonna get it through your head?

I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I'll be mellow when I'm dead, I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I can't stand the smell of incense

I don't really like to jog

No Joni Mitchell eight-tracks in my car (ooh)

I hate anything organic

Even health food makes me sick

You won't catch me sipping Perrier down in some sushi bar

I tell you, now's the time to go for

All the gusto you can grab

You'll have plenty of time to be low key

When you're laid out on the slab

I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I'll be mellow when I'm dead, I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I'll be mellow when I'm dead, I'll be mellow when I'm dead

When are you, cosmic cowboys

Gonna get it through your head?

I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I'll be mellow when I'm dead, I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I'll be mellow when I'm dead, I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I don't want no part of that vegetarian scene

I won't buy me a pair of designer jeans

No redwood hot tub to my name

I got all that I want

And if it's all the same to you

I don't need a course in self-awareness

To find out who I am

And I'd rather have a Big Mac or a Jumbo Jack

Than all the bean sprouts in Japan (wow)

So don't ask me what I'm into

I don't need to prove I'm cool

I'll break your arm if you ask me what's my sign

I won't tell you where my head's at

I don't need to see no shrink

Psychosis may be in this year

But I'm really not that kind

And I'm in no hurry to be casual

In fact, I think I'll wait

Until I'm pushing up the daisies

(Like, wow, man, can you relate?)

I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I'll be mellow when I'm dead, I'll be mellow when I'm dead

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I'll be mellow when I'm dead, I'll be mellow when I'm dead (mellow when I'm dead)

I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I'll be mellow when I'm dead, I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I'll be mellow when I'm dead

I'll be mellow when I'm dead, I'll be mellow when I'm dead (wow)