Frank Turner - One Foot Before the Other lyrics

On the very day I die
The very last of my desires
Is that you take my broken body
And commit it to the fire
And then when the fire is finished
Scrape the ashes in a tin
Take them down to London's drinking
Reservoirs and throw them in

And then specks infinitesimal of
My mortal remains
Will slide down seven million throats
And into seven million veins
And I will creep through their capillaries
To the marrow of their bones
And they will wake to bright new
Mornings and then wordlessly they'll know

That I remain i am remembered
I remain i am remembered

So these seven million innocents
They will have me in their blood
And when they die
They'll burn their bodies or be
Buried in the mud
And I will spread through streams and rivers
Like a virus through a host
From the hamlets to the cities
From the rivers to the coast

And from there into the Channel
Across the great Atlantic Ocean
And ever onwards to the new world
Through the water's gentle motions
Until parts of me are part
Of every land mass, every sea
In the rain, upon your crops
And in the very air you breathe

I remain i am remembered
I remain i am remembered
I remain and all the things I love will
Be washed away in the rain i remain

I'm not convinced of the existence of
These things that don't exist
Yeah, by Jewish boys with big ideas
And scratches on their wrist
By a loving or a vengeful God
Or one who condescends
Who'll wash his hands down in the
Mire among the misery of men
Or by ever turning circles hanging
Timeless in the sky
Like a dream catcher distracting from
The fact you're gonna die

But, I place one foot before the other
Confident because
I know that everything we are right
Now is everything that was
That Wat Tyler, Woody Guthrie
Dostoevsky and Davy Jones
Are all dissolved into the ether and
Have crept into my bones
And all the cells in all the lines
Upon the backs of both my hands
Were once carved into the details of
Two feet upon the sand, so

We remain we are remembered
We remain we are remembered
We remain and all the things we love will
Be washed away in the rain we remain