Dirt in the Ground lyrics

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

I said we're all gonna be

I said we're all gonna be

I said we're all gonna be

Just dirt in the ground

The quill from a buzzard, the blood writes the word

I want to know am I the sky or a 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

I said we're all gonna be

I said we're all gonna be

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

And we're all gonna be

I said we're all gonna be

I said we're all gonna be

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, and 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

I said we're all gonna be

I said we're all gonna be

I said we're all gonna be

Just dirt in the ground

• Artist:Tom Waits
• Album:Bone Machine (1992)