[Verse 1]
Empty out your pockets and toss the lot upon the floor
All those treasures, my friend, you don’t need them anymore
Your days are all through dying, they gave all their ghosts away
So kiss close all of your wounds and call living life a day

[Chorus 1]
For the planets gravitate around you
And the stars shower down around you
And the angels in heaven adore you
And the saints, they all stand and applaud you
So faraway, so faraway and yet so close

[Verse 2]
Say farewell to the passing of the years
Though all your sweet goodbyes will fall upon deaf ears
Kiss so softly the mouths of the ones you love
Beneath the September moon and the heavens above

[Chorus 2]
And the world will turn without you
And history will soon forget about you
But the heavens they will reward you
And the saints will be there to escort you
So faraway, so faraway and yet so close

[Bridge]
Do not grieve at the passing of mortality
For life’s but a thing of terrible gravity

[Chorus 1]
And the planets gravitate around you
And the stars shower down about you
And the angels in heaven adore you
While those saints, they all stand and applaud you
So faraway, so faraway and yet so close