Are You Planning A Funeral?

Are you Planning a Funeral? Are you planning a funeral? What will the mourners eat At the wake, at the breaking of bread? Are you planning a funeral? Where will the dead one lie On show like a precious exhibit? Are you planning a funeral? Will you have roses and orchids Cash in a box for Heroes For Cancer, Stroke, or Pox? Are you planning a funeral? Forget the fashionistas Send instead for the shaman, the priest for pity's sake With the words to address the unthinkable Let there be tears or laughter Memories shared or hidden at the wake Are you planning a funeral? Not one pence of the money spent Will raise the deceased like Lazarus up from the tomb Oh hard, so much the harder to bear If the body there in the coffin's the fruit of your womb