Steal My Body Home

Put me in a hole in the ground

With the money and the town

And the women all running around

Can't complain about the mess

Mama killed her only dress

Now she's longing for the pines

Watch my troubles all unwind

Drinking gasoline and wine

Catch a chill off the stove

On the train, making a few

Lost my head beneath the wheel

Now she steals my body home

The trees are fake, the air is dead

The birds are stuffed with poisoned lead

And the ground is much too clean

And if it's only me who's scared

Strap into electric chairs

Ring the moon like a broken bell

When she drags you from the hill

Daddy's gonna burn down there still

We can watch it from the rooftop

Lay into the frying pan

Now she kisses her own hand

With a fiddle on the fire

I took a leap into the fog

Sleeping on a hollow log

Now I'm coughing with no mouth

You can keep yourself inside

But you know you cannot hide

When the devil's your only friend