After All (The Dead)

After All (The Dead) is the second track off of Black Sabbath's sixteenth album Dehumanizer.

Lyrics

 What do you say to the dead?
 Will you forgive me for living?
 Can't believe the things that they said
 Wonderful day for a killing
 It's killing me
 
 What do they do with your soul?
 Is it just lying there busted?
 When did you lose all control?
 Is there someone to be trusted with my mind?
 
 Oh there's insufficient evidence
 Of what just might come after
 But sometimes out of nowhere
 There's demented sounds of laughter
 
 Are we all haunted by the ghost, imagination
 It just can't be
 I've seen them there, howling at the moon
 
 Is it just me
 Or does somebody else believe this?
 Well I'm not alone and I'm not afraid
 There's just one way to see
 
 After all, after all
 After all, after all
 
 What do you say to the dead?
 Is there a place where it's burning?
 It says in a book I once read
 Yes, there's a chance of returning
 Turn to me
 
 The fundamental principles
 Say nothing of forever
 But those are voices that I hear
 Or I'm just not so clever
 
 It can't be me
 I know somebody else believes this
 Well I'm not alone, I'm not afraid
 Just one way to see
 
 After all, after all
 Coming after all
 
 After all, after all
 After all... 
 After all...