Dirt In The Ground

Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan / Tom Waits: Bone Machine (1992)

	Em	C	Em	C
	What does it	matter,	a dream of love - Or a dream of	lies?

	D	G	B7
We're	all gonna be the same	place - When we	die.

	Em	C	Em	C
	Your spirit don't leave	knowing -	Your face or your	name,

	D	G	B7
And the	wind through your bones - Is	all that	remains.

	Em	C	Em	C
	The quill from a	buzzard -	The blood writes the	word.

	D	G	B7
I want to	know am I the	sky - Or the	bird.

	Em	C	Em	C
'Cause	hell is	boiling over -	And heaven is	full.

	D	G	B7
We're	chained to the world - And	we all gotta	pull.

	Em	C	Em	C
Now the	killer was	smiling - With	nerves made of	stone.

	D	G	B7
	He climbed the stairs - And the	gallows	groaned,

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And the	people's hearts were	pounding - They were	throbbing, they were	red.

	D	G	B7
As he	swung out over the crowd - I heard the	hangman	said:

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Now	Cain slew	Gel - He	killed him with a	stone.

	D	G	B7
The	sky cracked open - And the	thunder	groaned.

	Em	C	Em	C
	Along a river of	flesh -	Can these dry bones	live?

	D	G	B7
Ask a	king or a beggar - And the	answer they'll	give: