The #1 song sets the stage for the album
caryiliff | Wilmington NC | 05/08/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
""Prepare to Die" is the first song on the album. Carman wrote this song after a brief conversation with Rev. Dake (author of the Dake Study Bible). Dake was sick and Carman was trying to help Dake prepare for the afterlife through a song of encouragement. Fortunately the only thing that afflicted Dake at the time was a bad case of the gout; Dake ended up living quite a few years after that.Carman wrote this song (a fact unknown to many people) when he was only 5 years old. He dictated the words to his mother because he could not yet write. Take this glimpse into Carman's earliest beginnings in Dake-Bonoism and cherish it."