Rest In Peace

written by Joss Whedon
performed by James Marsters

Context: Ep. 6.07, "Once More With Feeling": Spike sings this song to Buffy when she comes to visit him in his crypt to "pump him for information" about the singing demon. He feels used and unappreciated, that his feelings for her are being taken for granted and taken advantage of. The song starts in his crypt, but they then proceed to walk in the graveyard together, and end by falling into an open grave, with Buffy landing on top of Spike and then running away.

I died
So many years ago
But you can make me feel like it isn’t so
And why you come to be with me
I think I finally know
Mmm-mmmmmm

You’re scared ...
Ashamed of what you feel
And you can’t tell the ones you love
You know they couldn’t deal
Whisper in a dead man’s ear
It doesn’t make it real

That’s great ...
But I don’t want to play
'Cause being with you
Touches me more than I can say
And since I’m only dead to you
I’m saying stay away
And let me rest in peace ...

Let me rest in peace
Let me get some sleep
Let me take my love and bury it
In a hole six feet deep
I can lay my body down
But I can’t find my sweet release
So let me rest in peace

You know
You got a willing slave
And you just love to play the thought
That you might misbehave
But 'til you do I’m telling you
Stop visiting my grave
And let me rest in peace

I know
I should go
But I follow you like a man possessed
There’s a traitor here, beneath my breast
And it hurts me more than you’ve ever guessed
If my heart could beat, it would break my chest
But I can see you’re unimpressed
So leave me be ...

And let me rest in peace
Let me get some sleep
Let me take my love and bury it
In a hole six feet deep
I can lay my body down
But I can’t find my sweet release
So let me rest in peace ...
Why won’t you
Let me rest in peace?