I Could Not Stop for Death

[Verse 1] Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality We slowly drove, he knew no haste, we passed the fields of gazing grain We passed the setting sun, or rather he passed us [Chorus] Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality It feels like centuries and yet it feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads were toward eternity I could not stop for Death, he could not, could not, could not stop for me [Verse 2] We passed the school where children strove, I had put away my labor and my leisure too for his civility We paused before a house that seemed a swelling of the ground The roof was scarcely visible, the cornice in the ground [Chorus] Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality It feels like centuries and yet it feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads were toward eternity I could not stop for Death, he could not, could not, could not stop for me [Outro] We slowly drove, the children strove, the fields of gazing grain, the