My dog died in 2005 She was holding my heart i was holding her hide in the rain My neighbor joe shot my dog He said i killed her cause you called the cops on me I said when i die my only ghost is for you joe Otherwise i'm staying gone when i go After that my grandpa passed At night sometimes i'd wonder when we'd meet My dad said when you're dead you're dead My mother disagreed I said when i die my only ghost is for our neighbor joe Otherwise i'm staying gone when i go I hated joe He had a daughter though And i would carve her name on the creek stones I was hunting raccoons in the wax moon She came to me one day before the dawn She said hold me she said she couldn't sleep She said she had a vision where she lay In the low weeds of the dry creek And her naked body covered with snakes That's how i'll die she said And i said i'd be glad to die with you that way And when i die my only ghost is for your daddy joe Otherwise i'm staying gone when i go