After All [The Dead] lyrics

What do you say to the dead?

Will you forgive me for living?

Can't believe the things that they said

Wonderful day for a killing

It's killing me

What do they do with your soul?

Is it just lying there busted?

When did you lose all control?

Is there someone to be trusted with my mind?

Oh there's insufficient evidence

Of what just might come after

But sometimes out of nowhere

There's demented sounds of laughter

Are we all haunted by the ghost, imagination

It just can't be

I've seen them there, howling at the moon

Is it just me

Or does somebody else believe this?

Well I'm not alone and I'm not afraid

There's just one way to see

After all, after all

What do you say to the dead?

Is there a place where it's burning?

It says in a book I once read

Yes, there's a chance of returning

Turn to me

The fundamental principles

Say nothing of forever

But those are voices that I hear

Or I'm just not so clever

It can't be me

I know somebody else believes this

Well I'm not alone, I'm not afraid

Just one way to see

After all, after all

Coming after all

• Artist:Black Sabbath
• Album:Dehumanizer (1992)