Dirt In The Ground

Tom Waits--Dirt in the Ground (written by T. Waits and Kathleen Brennan)

from Bone Machine--1992

Verse 1:

What does it matter, a dream of love

Or a dream of lies

We're all gonna be the same place

When we die

Your spirit don't leave knowing

Your face or your name

And the wind through your bones

Is all that remains

And we're all gonna be...

(4 times)

Fm (sung only)

Just dirt in the ground

Verse 2:

The quill from a buzzard

The blood writes the word

I want to know am I the sky

or the bird

'Cause hell is boiling over

And heaven is full

We're chained to the world

And we all gotta pull

And we're all gonna be...

(4 times)

...Just dirt in the ground

Verse 3:

Now the killer was smiling

With nerves made of stone

He climbed the stairs

And the gallows groaned

And the people's hearts were pounding

They were throbbing, they were red

As he swung out over the crowd

I heard the hangman said

We're all gonna be...

(4 times)

Just dirt in the ground

Verse 4:

Now Cain slew Abel

He killed him with a stone

The sky cracked open

And the thunder groaned

Along a river of flesh

Can these dry bones live?

Ask a king or a beggar

And the answer they'll give

Is we're all gonna be...

(4 times)

We're all gonna be just

Jeff Henscheid

henschj5753@cobra.uni.edu