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 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, 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 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, 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 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, 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 I said, we’re all gonna be just dirt in the ground We’re all gonna be just dirt in the ground Words and music by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan ©1992 Jalma Music Inc. (ASCAP)

Produced by Tom Waits Recorded by Biff Dawes at Prairie Sun recording, Cotati, CA 2nd engineer: Joe Marquez 3rd engineer: Shawn Michael Morris Tom Waits: Vocals and piano Larry Taylor: Upright bass Ralph Carney: Alto sax, tenor sax, and bass clarinet Track 2 on the album ‘Bone Machine’ 1992 Time: 4.07 Dutch singer Astrid Seriese did a cover of the song on her album ‘Secret World’ 1994