Because I Could Not Stop For Death (Remastered Album Version) - Natalie Merchant/Susan McKeown

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 had put away

My labor and my leisure too

For his civility

For his civility

We passed the school

Where children played

Their lessons 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 seen

A swelling of the ground

The roof was scarcely visible

The corners were around

The corners were around

Since then 'tis

Centuries but each

Feels shorter than the day

Since I first surmised

The horses' heads

It wore eternity

It wore eternity

Because I could

Not stop for Death

He kindly stopped for me

The carriage held

But just ourselves

And Immortality