Dirt In The Ground

Waits Tom

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1. What does it matter, 
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   a dream of love or a dream of lies
         Eb                    Ab
   We're all gonna be the same place
           C7
   When we die
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   Your spirit don't leave knowing
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   Your face or your name
           Eb
   And the wind through your bones
      Ab       C7
   Is all that remains
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   And we're all gonna be... (4x)
   (a capela)...Just dirt in the ground

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... (4x)
   ...Just dirt in the ground

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... (4x)
   ...Just dirt in the ground

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... (4x)
   ...just dirt in the ground