[Chorus 1]
By the time you read this, I will already be dead
Do not reply to this, it is only to be read
By the time you read this, I will already be dead
Do not reply to this, but notify my next of kin

[Verse 1]
Self administrate your estate
Pick up the pieces and give them away
Let them take all the things they want and dispose of yourself

Photographs and notes go into the sink
Under all the hot water the faucet could give
Now my dreams are just running ink
Going down the drain

[Chorus 2]
By the time you read this, I will already be gone
Do not reply to this, but realize what you have done
By the time you read this, it will already be true
Do not reply to this, but realize what you made me do

Oh, oh

By the time you read this, I will have gone the way good men go
When they go bad, where they go bad
By the time you read this, I will have gone to the place where good men go
Where they go wrong, when they go wrong