Dirt In The Ground
by Tom Waits
From the album: Bone Machine
Track 2 of 16 on Bone Machine (1992).
Duration: 04:07
Lyrics for Dirt In The Ground
What does it matter, a dream of love or a dream of lies? We're all gonna be in the same place when we die Spirit don't leave knowing face or your name The wind through your bones is all that remains And we're all gonna be, yeah I said we're all gonna be, yeah-yeah I said we're all gonna be, yeah-yeah I said we're all gonna be just dirt in the ground The quill from a buzzard, blood writes the word I want to know am I the sky or a bird Hell's boiling over and heaven is full We're chained to the world and we all gotta pull And we're all gonna be, yeah-yeah I said we're all gonna be, yeah-yeah I said we're all gonna be, yeah-yeah I said we're all gonna be just dirt in the ground 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, yeah-yeah I said we're all gonna be, yeah-yeah I said we're all gonna be, yeah-yeah I said we're all gonna be just dirt in the ground Now Cain slew Abel, he killed him with a stone The sky cracked open, the thunder groaned Along a river of flesh can these dry bones live? Take a king or a beggar and the answer they'll give Is we're all gonna be, yeah-yeah I said we're all gonna be, yeah-yeah I said we're all gonna be, yeah-yeah I said we're all gonna be just dirt in the ground We're all gonna be just dirt in the ground We're all gonna be just dirt in the ground I said we're all gonna be just dirt in the ground Well, we're all gonna be just dirt in the ground