Natalie Merchant – Because I Could Not Stop For Death lyrics

because I could not stop for Death,
he kindly stopped for me
the carriage held but just ourselves
and Immortality... and Immortality

we slowly drove, he knew no haste,
and I, I had put away
my labor, and my leisure too,
for his civility

we passed the school where children played
their lesson scarcely done

we passed through fields of gazing grain,
we passed the setting sun,
we passed the setting sun

we paused before a house that seemed
a swelling of ground
the roof was scarcely visible,
the cornice but a mound,
the cornice but a mound

since then tis centuries but each
feels shorter than the day
Since I first surmised the horses heads
were toward eternity, toward eternity

because I could not stop for Death,
he kindly stopped for me
the carriage held but just ourselves
and Immortality