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Buried mama standing with the knife still in her chest As per her last instructions at her death Said you'll never get to heaven, son So go to hell real slow Now the ground don't want me, mama The ground don't want me, no no no I've stacked the deck, I've held the dead man's hand so many times Eights and aces wishing for the death I hoped was mine But cards and guns are all the same Each man must draw his own Now the ground don't want me, mama The ground don't want me, no no no What is the body when the soul is flown? Has it only been forgotten? I want to lay down in a field of bone But an angel guards the garden I killed men in Blue Eye, Barbaco, New Life and Crystal Wells In every town, the broken-hearted rang their steeple bells For every man, a box For every hole, a rose Now the ground don't want me, mama The ground don't want me, no no no SongtexteWhat is the body when the soul is flown? Has it only been forgotten? I want to lay down in a field of bone But an angel guards the garden Then one morning near Arkana, I chanced to watch some violets rise Their lunar blues undoing down the fastest days and nights And I thought how sweet to sleep Beneath the flowers such as those But the ground don't want me, mama The ground don't want me, no no no What is the body when the soul is flown? Has it only been forgotten? I want to lay down in a field of bone But an angel guards the garden Sometimes I think 'bout mama with the knife still in her chest Sometimes I think 'bout all those lucky men I sent to rest And how it's them who are a-sleepin' And it's me who is the ghost Now the ground don't want me, mama The ground don't want me, no no no What is the body when the soul is flown? Has it only been forgotten? I want to lay down in a field of bone But an angel guards the garden Aus Songtexte Mania