I'm painting, I paint a picture in your mind
  If you're driving roads to suicide, I know you can sympathise
  
  If your lover is a cheatin', and you're blinded by the pain
  Your honeymoon in summer is a picnic in the rain
  
  You'll be grateful when you're dead
  Yeah you'll be grateful when you're dead
  Ba, ba, ba - ba, ba, ba ....
  
  I'm shaking, I shake the spear before your eyes
  Well if you know your history, you will read between the lines
  
  If you're waiting for a vision, to illuminate your mind
  To leave this world of misery, oh leave it all behind
  
  You'll be grateful when you're dead
  Yeah you'll be grateful when you're dead
  Ba, ba, ba - ba, ba, ba ....
  When you're dead
  
  You'll be grateful when you're dead
  Yes you'll be grateful when you're dead
  Ba, ba, ba - ba, ba, ba ....
  When you're dead - ow
  When you're dead
  
  Oh I'm telling you man
  Jerry was there
  You could feel his presence everywhere
  Oh I'm telling you man
  Jerry was there
  You could feel his presence everywhere
  
  Jerry was there, Jerry was there
  Jerry was there, Jerry was there
  
  Oh I seen him man - looked me right in the face
  Jerry was there