Joe Jackson Jack, You’re Dead song lyrics

When you got no more assurance

Than a great big hunk of lead

If you don't respond to romance

When a chick is smilin' at you

Even though there's nothin' said

You stand there like a statue

You been always kickin'

But you stubbed your toes

When you ups and kicks the bucket

Just like ole man, Mose

When you get no kicks from lovin'

And you blow your top instead

It's a fact that you ain't livin'

When you just ain't got nobody

Since you gone and lost your head

Rigor mortise has set in, daddy

What's the use of havin' muscles

If your life hangs by a thread

If you ain't got no red corpuscles

You been always kickin'

But you stubbed your toes

When you ups and kicks the bucket

Just like ole man, Mose

When you get no kicks from lovin'

And the news begin to spread

All the cats will holler, "Murder"

All the breath has leaked out of you

If your friends gather round the bed

And look at you and say, "Don't he look natural?"

When that happens to you, daddy