Rest in Peace
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lyrics

I died
I ceased to live

So many years ago
It happened a long time back

You can make me feel
You have the power to make me sense

Like it isn't so
That it never occurred

Why you come to be with me
Why you visit me

I think I finally know
I believe I have figured it out

You're scared
You are frightened

Ashamed of what you feel
You feel embarrassed about your emotion

And you can't tell the ones you love
You are unable to describe it to the ones you hold dear

You know they couldn't deal
You are confident they cannot bear it

A whisper in a dead man's ear
Speaking softly to the lifeless

It doesn't make it real
Does not bring it to reality

That's great
It's wonderful

But I don't wanna play
But I am not interested

'Cause being with you touches me
Because being with you affects me emotionally

More than I can say
More than I can express

And since I'm only dead to you
And because to you, I am just a lifeless entity

I'm saying stay away
I am telling you to keep away

And let me rest in peace
And allow me to have eternal rest

Let me rest in peace
Allow me to have eternal rest

Let me get some sleep
Let me snooze for a while

Let me take my love and bury it
Let me inter my love into the ground

In a hole six foot deep
In a grave six feet below

I can lay my body down
I can place my corpse on the ground

But I can't find my sweet release
But I am unable to attain freedom from this pain

You know you got a willing slave
You know you have an obedient servant

And you just love to play the thought
And you adore the idea of it

That you might misbehave
That you may act inappropriately

But 'til you do
But until you do so

I'm telling you
I am informing you

Stop visiting my grave
Quit coming to my resting place

And let me rest in peace
And let me have eternal rest

I know I should go
I am aware I should depart

But I follow you
But I track you down

Like a man posessed
Like a haunted man

There's a traitor here
A betrayer resides within me

Beneath my breast
Inside my chest

And it hurts me more
And it causes me greater pain

Than you've ever guessed
Than you have ever presumed

If my heart could beat
If my heart had a pulse

It would break my chest
It would shatter my ribcage

But I can see
But I perceive

You're unimpressed
You are not affected

So leave me be!
So please just let me be

Why won't you
Why do you refuse to

Let me rest in peace?
Allow me to have eternal rest?