You are my cottonflower
You are the one forever
Your smile is like a little wrinkle
Don't suffer, babe, just let it trickle
This is my lucky hour
Let us spend it together
You keep me warm each time I travel
You give me shelter from the drizzle
Sing this song for you to sing when I'm gone
I'm bleeding, bleeding hard.

You are my cottonflower
I'm nothing but the lonely rider
I don't wonder who is right or is wrong
Sing this song for you to sing when I'm gone.

I am your purple spider
My hose are getting wider
Eventhough there're a robin's crying
I Don't worry cause I'm only dying
Sing this song for you to sing when I'm gone
It don't hurt no more now.

You've seen a thousand like me
I'm not the first one, I'm not the only one
The best one, the first one, the last one
You've seen a thousand like me
Won't you turn off your TV?

I'm nothing but a lonely soldier
I don't wonder who is right who is wrong
Sing this song for you to sing when I'm gone
I'm gone, now I'm gone
I'm gone.

You are my cottonflower
You are my cottonflower...

Cancer riding on my chest
Soon I'll return to dust and rest