Speed Funeral

Coffin throbs with diesel power And the mourners wave the flag The padre chomps his stogie hard As we race the final drag He lived to ride the white line Is what the mourners say His name is scorched in tyre tracks Across the outer Milky Way Don't dare cry, put the goggles to your eye Peace at last, as he blasts into the sky Rest in speed Rev it up and let er R.I.P No time to cry at a speed funeral Casket blasts the timespace fabric R I P-ing at the seam He pops his clogs into overdrive As he shoots out jets of steam Put a rocket at his head and feet Propellant by his side We'll kiss his lips and say goodnight Then ignite the nitrous oxide No sad songs and no need for the flowers Hearse that bursts with a screaming diesel power He looks just like he's sleeping As he breaks the speed light It's what he would have wanted As the TNT ignites You'd never meet a nicer man they say That's why we lashed him to this missile He woulda wanted it this way