Earth Died Screaming Rudy’s on the midway and Jacob’s in the hole The monkey’s on the ladder, the devil shovels coal With crows as big as airplanes, the lion has three heads And someone will eat the skin that he sheds Well, the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming Well, the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming Dreaming of you Well, hell doesn’t want you and heaven is full Bring me some water, put it in this skull I walk between the raindrops, I wait in Bug House Square And the army ants, they leave nothin’ but the bones And the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming Well, the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming Well, the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming Dreaming of you There was thunder, there was lightning, then the stars went out And the moon fell from the sky, it rained mackerel, it rained trout And the great day of wrath has come and here’s mud in your big red eye And the poker’s in the fire and the locusts take the sky Well, the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming Well, the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming Well, the earth died screaming While I lay dreaming I lay dreaming of you (dreaming of you) I’m dreaming of you (dreaming of you) I’m dreaming of you (dreaming of you) I’m dreaming of you (dreaming of you) Words and music by Tom Waits ©1992 Jalma Music Inc. (ASCAP)

Produced by Tom Waits Associate producer: Kathleen Brennan Recorded by Biff Dawes at Prairie Sun Recording, Cotati, CA Mixed by Tchad Blake 2nd engineer: Joe Marquez 3rd engineer: Shawn Michael Morris Musical security guard: Francis Thumm Tom Waits: Vocals, chamberlin, percussion, guitar Larry Taylor: Upright bass Les Claypool: Electric bass The Boners: Sticks The Boners: Kathleen Brennan, Joe Marquez and Tom Waits Time: 3.36 Track 1 on the album ‘Bone Machine’ 1992 Track ? on the soundtrack album ‘12 Monkeys’ 1995 Track 6 on the compilation ‘Beautiful Maladies’ 1998 Click here for live versions