Long While Lyrics - Stop Us If You've Heard This Before - Barenaked Ladies

[Chorus] 

It's gonna be a long while 

It's gonna be a long, long while 

Gonna be a long while, living 

[Verse 1] 

A sad, sad day 

When he finally goes away 

There's gonna be a deli tray 

And some tears 

But it could be years 

Everybody's lining up 

To get a piece of grandpa's stuff 

If you think that living's tough 

Dying's worse 

[Chorus] 

It's gonna be a long while 

It's gonna be a long, long while 

It's gonna be a long while, living 

[Verse 2] 

It only takes a little slip 

For him to fall and break his hip 

And then it's just a downhill trip 

To his grave 

Embalmed and shaved 

Sister wants the figurines 

Brother wants the fax machine 

Mother thinks it's all obscene 

'Cause she'll be next 

[Chorus] 

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But it's gonna be a long while 

It's gonna be a long, long while 

It's gonna be a long while, living 

[Bridge] 

Beneath the chatter no one heard 

The old man's final dying words 

He lay alone so pale and small 

And whispered, "How I hate you all" 

His life is not what I would call living 

[Verse 3] 

Wait until 

The lawyer finally reads the will 

Circling above their kill 

Everyone will be stunned 

He gave it all to charity 

Dangled like a carrot, he 

Decided not to share it, we 

Should have known 

[Chorus] 

Grandpa's gonna be a long while 

Gonna be a long, long while 

Gonna be a long while, living 

Grandpa's gonna be long while 

Gonna be a long, long while 

It's gonna be a long while, living 

Long while, 

Gonna be a long, long while, living 

Long while, 

Oh he's gonna be a long, long while, 

Gonna be a long while, living. 

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